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When I read the Mar Rover article this morning, I was thinking it seems like we can apply the same technologies on the surface of Earth to explore Oceans, Antar
by eugenejen 15y ago
When I read the Mar Rover article this morning, I was thinking it seems like we can apply the same technologies on the surface of Earth to explore Oceans, Antarctica, Arctic areas, Sahara Desert, Gobi Desert, Amazon Jungle, where there were not enough human explorations so far and to collect data and to solve some technology challenges to build machines/computers/communications systems that can roaming on those environments and economically way to sustain those information gathering efforts. (including replacement/dropping off those bots in those difficult areas)
I suddenly understood most our knowledge on those locations are probably based on few high resolution statistical samplings done in human explorations plus low resolution statistical sampling from Satellites Images. It may be good to build those bots to have real time high resolution sampling and let data scientists discover more facts and knowledge!
- Retric 15y agoI really doubt that there is all that much meaningful diversity in most of those areas.* After all I can create a 50+ gigabyte image file by scanning a white piece of paper but that does not mean it's worth the disk space. *Now if you can go really high resolution you might be on to something. You can gather useful information from DNA sequencing dirt samples from your back yard. But, we can't do that with rovers and photographs, temperature, and PH levels etc would be far less useful.