Day 21

What did the Cool Robot do today?  This morning and afternoon Jim and Alden ran a few grid surveys with the GPR.  Ben went for a ski collecting data point for a new fan survey for the air sampler. After Jim and Alden were done with their grids and before dinner, I manually drive the robot with GPR over where they thought the old freezer of the station was buried in the snow to see if we could find it.  It looks like there was defiantly something down there but that is all I could determine with my very limit knowledge of the GPR scans.

This evening we sent the robot on an night mission with the air sampler but the robot had some problems with the turns, getting itself really stuck.  We ran it through another couple of waypoints to see it would do on those turns; the second one went fine and third was a bit wonky but it made it through.  The robot also ran in slow mode (half speed) the whole time due to lack of power from the sun which it seemed to suit just fine except for the turns.  We decided to just leave the robot out there stopped and we will run it in the morning.  With more sun it will drive at its normal speed which should help the turning and hopefully it will not get stuck again.

Cool Robot taking off toward it next waypoint.

Ummm...what is this thing? Where did it come from in the middle nowhere?
Jim and Ben helping the CR out after getting itself stuck on a turn.