This software for Mars surface operations was uploaded to the rover's memory during the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's flight from Earth.

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The rover is installing its full surface operations software after the landing because its computers didn't have room for it during flight.

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It gives us basic capabilities for operating the rover on the surface, but we have planned all along to switch over after landing to a version of flight software that is really optimized for surface operations.

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Hargreaves is restructuring the ATH operations in a bid to make them viable, while also pledging to use profits towards the restoration of surface coal-mining after operations are complete.

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New modules are planned for anti-submarine warfare, minehunting, surface warfare, surveillance and special operations.

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Conducting operations 6 miles below the surface is daunting.

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Freeport has been ramping up operations at its underground mines amid declining surface production.

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For example, they are equipped with defensive countermeasures against surface to air missiles which makes them suitable for operations in areas where conventional business jets might fear to fly.

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And then you subtract from that the burning that has been done with the platform and the oil on the surface with the controlled burn, for example -- the application of dispersants, skimming operations and in situ.

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