Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) is a multi-year series of hardware and operations tests carried out annually in the high desert of Arizona on the San Francisco Volcanic Field. Conducted since 1997, these activities are designed to exercise planetary surface hardware and operations in conditions where long-distance, multi-day roving is achievable. Such activities not only test vehicle subsystems through extended rough-terrain driving, they also stress communications and operations systems and allow testing of science operations approaches to advance human and robotic surface capabilities.


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    Title :

    Science Operations Development for Field Analogs: Lessons Learned from the 2010 Desert RATS Test


    Contributors:
    Eppler, D. B. (author) / Ming, D. W. (author)

    Conference:

    42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2011 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2011-03-07


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English