Sound familiar :-)
(But there's no water there)

RM

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     A rover-robot scuttling across the rocky surface of a far-
away planet suddenly "decides" to swerve sharply left to avoid a
boulder. A tiny spacecraft hurtling through the darkness of space
"diagnoses" and repairs its own malfunctions without waiting for
instructions from home.

These scenarios could result from two of the 111 proposals NASA
has selected as part of its Cross-Enterprise Technology
Development Program. The agency will spend more than $120 million
seeking high-payoff technologies to revolutionize future space-
flight systems.

yada yada  ...



   http://www.aerospace.nasa.gov/programs/xenterprise

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