Robotic whales could one day swim alongside real whales, beaming back data and images to marine biologists studying migration patterns, or to students in a classroom.
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Firing Mars Express into orbit was a make-or-break task since the craft is supposed to beam back data gathered by Beagle on the surface.
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Mars Express was designed to beam back data gathered by Beagle, and Pillinger said its communications were specifically set up to hear the probe's transmissions.
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Benthos's early strength was the transponder, a radio beacon that can be dropped to great ocean depths where it sends back data about temperatures and currents.
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Mars Express was designed to beam back data gathered by Beagle, and mission scientists said its communications were specifically set up to hear the probe's transmissions.
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"When it came up in this diagnostic mode, we started bringing back data, and that's when we figured out what really happened,"
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Critics of initial efforts by Celera Genomics to hold back data from sections of genome they sequenced for commercial exploitation felt that it would retard progress in science as a whole.
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And perhaps, in a few years, we will get more answers about what's to come if astronauts reach Mars and send back data on the origin of the universe.
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The tiny lander was due to spend six months probing and analyzing rocks and soil with its robotic arm, sending back data via the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.
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Several of the instruments on " Philae " made the first direct analysis of a comet, sending back data that will be analysed to determine the composition of the surface.
