Introduction: The Life in the Atacama (LITA) project includes rover field tests designed to look for life in the arid environment of the Atacama Desert (Chile). Field instruments were chosen to help remote observers identify potential habitats and the presence of life in these habitats, and included two spectrometers for help in identifying the mineralogy of the field sites. Two field trials were undertaken during the 2004 field season. The remote science team had no prior knowledge of the local geology, and relied entirely on orbital images and rover-acquired data to make interpretations. Each field trial lasted approximately one week: the sites for these trials were in different locations, and are designated "Site B" and "Site C.
Upcoming Mars Surveyor lander missions will include extensive spectroscopic capabilities designed to...
This work presents the preliminary results of the first field calibration campaign performed in the ...
The Marsokhod 1999 field experiment in the Mojave Desert included a simulation of a rover-based samp...
Analysis of spectroscopy datasets from rover field tests in the Atacama Desert (Chile), focusing on ...
The Life in the Atacama project examined six different sites in the Atacama Desert (Chile) over 3 ye...
The Life in the Atacama project investigated the regional distribution of life and habitats in the A...
The "Life in the Atacama" (LITA) project included two field trials during the 2004 field season, eac...
The Life In The Atacama (LITA) project develops and field tests a long-range, solarpowered, automate...
(Chile) over 3 years in an attempt to remotely detect the presence of life with a rover. The remote ...
The Atacama Desert, one of the most arid landscapes on Earth, serves as an analog for the dry condit...
The Life in the Atacama-2004 project, which included geological, morphological, and mineralogical ma...
We deployed our fluorescence imaging system which detects fluorescence signals from sparse microorga...
The Chilean Atacama Desert is the most arid region on Earth and in several ways analogous to Mars. E...
The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the driest desert on Earth, receiving only a few mm of rain ...
LITA develops and field tests a long-range automated rover and a science payload to search for micro...
Upcoming Mars Surveyor lander missions will include extensive spectroscopic capabilities designed to...
This work presents the preliminary results of the first field calibration campaign performed in the ...
The Marsokhod 1999 field experiment in the Mojave Desert included a simulation of a rover-based samp...
Analysis of spectroscopy datasets from rover field tests in the Atacama Desert (Chile), focusing on ...
The Life in the Atacama project examined six different sites in the Atacama Desert (Chile) over 3 ye...
The Life in the Atacama project investigated the regional distribution of life and habitats in the A...
The "Life in the Atacama" (LITA) project included two field trials during the 2004 field season, eac...
The Life In The Atacama (LITA) project develops and field tests a long-range, solarpowered, automate...
(Chile) over 3 years in an attempt to remotely detect the presence of life with a rover. The remote ...
The Atacama Desert, one of the most arid landscapes on Earth, serves as an analog for the dry condit...
The Life in the Atacama-2004 project, which included geological, morphological, and mineralogical ma...
We deployed our fluorescence imaging system which detects fluorescence signals from sparse microorga...
The Chilean Atacama Desert is the most arid region on Earth and in several ways analogous to Mars. E...
The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the driest desert on Earth, receiving only a few mm of rain ...
LITA develops and field tests a long-range automated rover and a science payload to search for micro...
Upcoming Mars Surveyor lander missions will include extensive spectroscopic capabilities designed to...
This work presents the preliminary results of the first field calibration campaign performed in the ...
The Marsokhod 1999 field experiment in the Mojave Desert included a simulation of a rover-based samp...