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TECHNOLOGY: A MARTIAN ROVER; Driving exercise s for the Red Planet.

Early single in kind May morning, Aleksandr Kermurdjian stood halfway up a boulder
studd rise in Death Valley, California. A short man with white hair
blowing forward in the waste wind, he concentrated his gaze onward a
strange-looking titanium contraption: a platform perched upon six bongo-
shaped wheels and topped by means of a computer and some tiny video cameras.

"Now," Kermurdjian said in Russian, "it begins."

Responding to radio commands from a trailer 100 yards away, the machine
mov

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