Current News
April 5, 2011
ENDURANCE data analysis tools available for download
The tools that we have developed to investigate our data are now available through the Looking Glass and Sonar Data pages.
Past News
April 20, 2010
ENDURANCE is featured in National Geographic's Explorer Series
The episode Explorer: Journey to an Alien Moon is available
on the here
April 9, 2010
ENDURANCE second antarctic field season featured in the MSNBC article
Antarctic diving robot practices for Europa
The article is available
on the here
December 11, 2009
The second deployment has been successfully completed.
Blog postings from the field are now available
on the Bonney 09 page
The latest post is from December 11th, 2009.
December 28, 2008
Blog postings from the field are now available
on
the Bonney 08 page
The latest post is from December 21st.
December 6, 2008
This image of West Lake Bonney, showing the ENDURANCE site
on the lake, was taken by the satellite Quickbird on December
6th. The color resolution of the image is 2.4m and 60cm in
the
panchromatic (grayscale) band. The image was
processed by
Paul
Morin of the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center by
pansharpening
it and adding the color bands to the higher resolution grayscale
band.
You can click on the image for a higher resolution version. Look for
the red, blue, and yellow tents north of the glacier and the big blue
tent in the middle of the lake.
September 28, 2008
ENDURANCE is crated up at Port of Hueneme,
California ready for its flight on a C-17.
June 21, 2008 and
August 23, 2008
ENDURANCE was tested in the Neutral
Buoyancy
Laboratory
pool at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
May 15, 2008
ENDURANCE underwent further testing in a
quarry in the
Austin,
Texas area from May 13-15.
March 26, 2008
ENDURANCE was tested in a quarry in the
Austin,
Texas area.
We performed several "mowing" maneuvers that will be
identical to how we plan to map West Lake Bonney. The total powered
mission took 90 minutes and covered more than a kilometer.
We also
performed a wall-follow maneuver where the multi-beam sensor was
remounted for side look mapping while the vehicle maintained
a
standoff
range of 5m from the wall, which is similar to how we plan to map the
Blood Falls glacier face in West Lake Bonney.
These two videos show
visualizations of the data collected during these missions. The
incomplete sonar coverage is from interference by weeds - a
problem we
most certainly won't have in Antarctica.
Week of February 11,
2008
Wisconsin
Field Test - During the week we tested the cold
water functioning of ENDURANCE and its maneuvering
under an ice - cover in Lake Mendota. Lake Mendota is adjacent Madison
Wisconsin. We are grateful to a number of individuals and groups at
University of Wisconsin who assisted us in this effort, including:
Center for Limnology (Jim Kitchell, Paul Hanson, Dave Harring), Civil
and Environmental Engineering (Chin Wu)
Various news sources ran articles on this including Scientific
American and the Chicago
Tribuneand UIC
News.
December 14, 2007
Peter Doran and William Stone gave
presentations on the
ENDURANCE project at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San
Francisco in session P52A: Europa
Exploration: Earth Analogs and Mission Studies
Various news sources ran articles on this including New
Scientist and Science
Daily
October 29, 2007
Peter Doran and William Stone presented an
overview of the
ENDURANCE
project at the Geological Society of America meeting
April, 2007
Various news sources covered the announcement
of the
ENDURANCE
project including UIC
News, Astrobiology
Magazine, NASA