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with the launch of nasa's prototype

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planetary lakelander on laguna negra in

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the central andes of chile our ability

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to search for life elsewhere in the

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universe took a bold step forward

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the lakelander project is testing

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robotic systems that can be used to

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search for signatures of life in our

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solar system

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the roboticists on the team include

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professor david wettagren along with dr

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liam pedersen and dr trey smith

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patterson and smith are responsible for

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assembling and monitoring the lakelander

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and its sensing equipment professor

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wedigren is developing a smart camera

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well this is a prototype for an

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underwater camera

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we are

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trying to get some close-up images of

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the very small organisms that live here

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in the lake

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what will be interesting is when we

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start to automatically process those

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pictures

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any rover that's exploring

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mars or titan is not going to be able to

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send back all those pictures

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so where it gets interesting is what do

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we do with that visual information how

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can we automatically analyze find the

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one frame that's important or maybe just

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a small portion of the image that's

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important pick that out and send it back

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and say this is what you should look at

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