Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Mark Robotic First For British Antarcti...

Courtesy ScienceDaily Mon, 03/17/2008 - 23:00

Scientists have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in Antarctica.

This is the first time that unpiloted UAVs have been used in the Antarctic and the successful flights open up a major new technique for gathering scientific data in the harshest and remotest environment on Earth.

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