Wednesday, 19. March 2008
Topic: ROBOT - on March 19, 2008 at 11:24:00 AM CET
Robots fly into Antarctic skies
A pair of lightweight, robotic planes have made the first unmanned flights over Antarctica's icy expanses.
Driven by propeller, the machines made 20 low-altitude sorties, including four over the Weddell Sea.
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were launched by catapult but flew autonomously until landing.
During some of the test flights the machines were fitted with miniaturised instruments to collect data for use in predictive climate models.
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