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Nasa extends Mars rover lifespan

JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
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[URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4432735.stm]extended missions[/URL]

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Well, they'd be stupid not to. :D
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Good!
  • KonradKonrad Ranger
    I'm shocked no one has posted this yet. :eek:

    [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4727847.stm[/url]

    Think the rovers could make it? :)
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Konrad [/i]
    [B]I'm shocked no one has posted this yet. :eek:

    [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4727847.stm[/url]

    Think the rovers could make it? :) [/B][/QUOTE]

    You must have missed this post then...

    ;)

    [URL=http://forums.firstones.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8473]Frozen Mars Lake Thread[/URL]
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    This is above the 70 degree north latitude. Spirit is around 14 degress south and Opportunity about 2 degrees south, so both would have a very long ways to go.

    I think it would be a good idea, if not over ambitious, to aim Opportunity straight north and see how far it could make it. Actual contact with water near the pole would be an amazing find.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by bobo [/i]
    [B]This is above the 70 degree north latitude. Spirit is around 14 degress south and Opportunity about 2 degrees south, so both would have a very long ways to go.

    I think it would be a good idea, if not over ambitious, to aim Opportunity straight north and see how far it could make it. Actual contact with water near the pole would be an amazing find. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Neither one uses a base repeater nearby right? They hook up to an orbiter to relay to Earth right?

    It was Pathfinder that had the base unit...

    ok so anyway, isn't the available light less as you go North?

    not a very good idea you think?

    :)
  • sleepy_shadowsleepy_shadow Ranger
    Over such distance, they'd probably hit difficult terrain and never reach there.

    Even in optimum conditions, a rover isn't made for crossing such distances.

    Besides, even if they did reach there... the lake is in a crater... and the crater walls may have some *really* nasty terrain, the kind which would require a professional martian (e.g. Michael Garibaldi with a float pack).

    But the next flight of probes... can surely land in that crater... of if they find more... then another suitable crater.
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