Matt Deans's blog

The science team's main objective today was to develop a strategy for scouting the "North Area" of Black Point Lava Flow. We focused on analyzing satellite imagery, identifying the top science priorities, coming up with a list of questions about science merit or operational risk, and developing a plan to use the robotic recon to answer those questions. This map shows the overall strategy for the next few days.

We use Google Earth extensively for K10 robot planning and operations. It's a great tool because it's very flexible as a map viewer, allows us to put in lots of different kinds of content (image overlays, points and polygons, etc.) and provides one context for looking at our field site data, robot plans, robot activities, and the data we have collected.