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T O P I C R E V I E WMCroft04I hosted some Indonesian visitors today at Space Center Houston and while on the tour to JSC I noticed a feature in the distance outside of Building 5 (Astronaut Training Building) that resembled a small volcanic dome. The tour guide told me it was built to simulate the surface of Mars so NASA could test their robonauts. See link below for a picture. I have 2 questions; 1) Does anyone know more about these efforts? and 2) Does the lunar landscape that was built at JSC to train Apollo astronauts still exist? http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1619/7418212/14110480/212354039.jpg yeknom-ecapsThe robots are under the NASA Desert RATS program and they have a yearly field test near Meteor Crater in Arizona as well. Check out this web site for more info and links to other locations. http://robots.net/article/2026.html
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