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The robot consists of two snowmobile tracks and two solar panels.

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It's not a robot for the sake of building a robot. But it's a robot for science.

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The climate is changing and snow is really important

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because it reflects a lot of the energy and heat from the sun.

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Places like Greenland which are covered in snow are very important.

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It's a large area of the earth's surface that's reflecting energy.

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Our main concern and main motivation to come over here was to be able to test it in the extreme environment,

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and temperature is definitely one of the most difficult issues.

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One thing is to be testing it in a controlled environment

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in a university, and a completely different thing is to come up here.

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When you get up here at -30 Celsius the wires, they just break in the cold, their so brittle.

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Biggest challenge was definitely trying to

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solve problems in the field.

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Out here when something breaks five miles out in the middle of the ice,

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it's very difficult to get the tools out and stay warm

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enough to be able to perform the repairs.

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We had to kinda go in shifts, work for a little bit, and then put your hands

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back in the gloves, or swing them, or put them in your armpits, or something.

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Warm them up, take a break.

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A repair that would take 10 minutes in normal conditions in a warehouse or a shop,

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it would take hours out there.

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What else could it be?

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Quick test - backwards first.

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Yes, we could have failed but we made it.

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It was kind of magic, to see it happen

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to see GROVER moving, every single time he went. It was great.

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GROVER represents the ability to collect an enormous amount of data.

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It would really revolutionize how much information

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we can get about the ice sheet on Greenland.

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It's really important to track the changes here.

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