October 26, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

Audio Slideshow: NASA Marscape

by James Martin
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At NASA's Marscape at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., scientists are busy playing around with the hardware and software that will one day become our eyes and ears in space. It's part lab, part playground, and the idea is to simulate the challenging conditions which NASA robots will encounter while exploring moons and planets. Terry Fong, director of the Intelligent Robotics Group at the NASA Ames Research Center, takes us behind the scenes and gives us an up close look at the research and development his team is doing in embedded systems, human-computer interaction, robotics and software development.
James is a photographer for CNET News.
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by bildan2 October 26, 2009 6:27 AM PDT
Don't put videos on your site without obvious volume controls. This @$%!@ video blew me out of my chair!
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