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Titus Kenyon an area lying in the north

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of Death Valley National Park hundreds

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of millions of years ago this dark

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landscape lay beneath warm tropical seas

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today it is the site for a field test

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conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory Lima 3 is a climbing Rover a

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mechanized Explorer designed to work in

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lemurs challenge is to find evidence of

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the life that once inhabited this area's

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long-lost warm waters and muddy terrain

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a waypoint is set high on the canyon

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Lima will climb to this point analyzing

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the rock face along the way Lima uses

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lidar to choose a path bouncing laser

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pulses off the rock to determine its

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shape it holds itself in place with

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Micro spine Griffin's made up of

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hundreds of tiny hooks that can fasten

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onto any rough surface the more Lima

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climbs the better choices it makes a

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variety of instruments on board are used

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to analyze the wrong an infrared

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spectrometer on its belly detects the

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presence of organic compounds x-rays

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help identify chemical elements it can

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detect the tiniest fluorescence of

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fossilized organisms in the ultraviolet

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for this mission a safety cable anchors

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lemur to the rock it helps emulate the

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lower gravity lemur will be operating

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and away from earth away from Earth

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would roam free and unencumbered

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lemur reaches its destination the

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the results are fascinating

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stromatolites fossilized balls of algae

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dating back to the Paleozoic era are

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among lemurs discoveries traces of

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organisms that once swam in warm seas

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organisms that have been dead for 500

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million years Lima represents a new

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generation of mechanized Explorer that

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could one day roam landscapes far beyond

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Earth the data it accumulates with each

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climb is passed to its descendants

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if lemur can find life in walk that is

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half a billion years of

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think how useful that skill might be at

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its ultimate destination not a rocky

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canyon wall here on earth but out there