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News Release 13-033
In Greenland and Antarctic Tests, Yeti Helps Conquer Some "Abominable" Polar Hazards
Autonomous machine designed to make over-ice travel safer by using radar to search for crevasses
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The Yeti robot at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2011.
Credit: James Lever, U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
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The Yeti robot in Greenland in April 2012
Credit: James Lever, U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
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Personnel at NSF's Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula conduct a glacier search-and-rescue drill that involves hauling a "victim" from a deep crevasse.
Credit: Photo by Peter Rejcek, NSF.
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Video of NSF-funded researchers testing self-guided robot to map deadly crevasses in Antarctica.
Credit: NSF/CRREL
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