1NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States
2The SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
3School of Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
4College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
5Institute of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
6Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corp., Pasadena, CA, United States
7Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
8Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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✉*Correspondence: Stephen B. Pointing stephen.pointing@yale-nus.edu.sg
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