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Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analogue of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada took part in last month’s field test, with the winners due to be announced shortly.
The Space Resources Challenge – supported by ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) in Luxembourg – is asking European (and Canadian) researchers and institutions to develop and demonstrate a system of one or more vehicles capable of prospecting resources on the Moon in the near future.
Massimo Sabbatini, overseeing the contest for ESA, comments: “ESA is analysing the results of the first field test of the Challenge and the competition is fierce. There was a wide range of participants and technological solutions to the problem of prospecting: notably different locomotion techniques – legged, wheeled, tracked, and so on – and approaches, such as single versus multiple vehicles and aerial vehicles. The jury is out!”
The emphasis of the contest is on prospecting: pinpointing promising resources within a difficult lunar environment then characterising them in as much detail as possible, such as through visual inspection or spectral analysis.
The lunar poles are a focus of interest for future exploration. They do not experience the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon’s two-week days and nights, and frozen water and other deposits are believed to be buried within permanently shadowed polar craters.
The Space Resources Challenge teams gathered at Valkenberg in the Netherlands had to contend with challenging illumination conditions and potential loss of signal events to locate resources, including mapping a small impact crater in the vicinity of the rover’s lander – all within a two and a half hour time limit.
The five winners will be awarded €375 000 in ESA contracts, with a larger prize pool on offer after a follow-on field test hosted by ESRIC next year.
Credits: ESA-M. Sabbatini
the robot is the creation of Chris Wollard from Tulsa, and is an art car with space for 8-10 people to ride in back; robot's friend is a modified Gerlach ambulance, the Jambulance, by Kent Robinson
"The city looks nice from up here, Danbo." said Trevor.
"Yes it does, my little Jurassic friend." replied Danbo.
"Can we go and have a look around and that? It looks ace."
"No, it's best we stay up here."
"Why's that Danbo? I'd really like to go."
"I know, my juvenile coelurosaurian theropod pal, but the problem is that, although it's a great city, it's totally full, to bursting point almost, of a wall-to-wall calvalcade of idiotholes, twats and thoroughly unpleasant blights on society - drinking, pissing and vomiting in the street, uncaring and self-obsessed, consuming and self-aggrandising."
"Er. Ok then."
"Listen. I'll tell you what, let's go to the Arts Centre; there's a band on that only a handful of people actually like and know about and a comedian who's routines are complex, nuanced, original and intelligent but not remotely commercially viable. You'll love it. It'll be my treat..."
Robot's Royal III
35mm Rangefinder 24x24cm square negative.
Wind up shutter provided for continuous shooting without need for batteries. No film advance.
A very hardy camera from the golden age of mechanical cameras.
The 40mm Schneider Xenon lens is no slouch either.
Shot in available light with a Canon S100 Digital Elph
Circular ceiling window, staircase and escalator in the Shinjuku I-Land Tower in Tokyo, Japan.
Published and Awarded on 1X.com,
Stockholm, Sweden, November 2024
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My mom gives me the cutest holiday ornaments. So cute that they never get put away, and become all-year decorations.
"TRANSFORMERS, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!"
My final rushed entry for the Brother's Brick chibi contest. Originally the plan was to do Bumblebee and Shia Lebouef, but hey, who doesn't like Optimus f$%*@^$ Prime?!
Logo.
Includes Spike minifigure!
Viewer discretion advised: Built while listening to this awesome bit.
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After various amounts of trial and error with the speech bubble and what to fill it with. using stencils, free and and paste... thing the use of binary coding suits it and fits the title...
(special prize goes to anyone who can read what the binary means..)
spray paints, acrylic and posca on Hardboard.