Design and field experimentation of a prototype Lunar prospector

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Int. J. Robotics Res.

• Publication date

  2010-10-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0278364910370217
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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