Central Arkansas Researchers Help Out With Mars Research
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Three central Arkansas researchers are
working to develop a mobile laboratory system to help NASA search
for water on Mars.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor Gary Anderson
and Harding University professor Edmond Wilson received a small
grant from the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium to build small
robots.
The research team now has a few more members and 670 thousand
dollars from NASA to work on the nuts and bolts of the project:
developing equipment capable of detecting water vapor. The
researchers use a robot-mounted spectrometer (spec-TROM`-uh-ter),
an instrument that detects chemicals.
The researchers aren`t working on a specific NASA mission but
they are hoping they can develop technology that NASA can use in
the future.
