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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Mars _ DRAFT - Findings of the Mars Forward Lunar Objectives Science Analysis Group

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 18 2006, 07:51 PM

There is a new http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/ report available: DRAFT - Findings of the Mars Forward Lunar Objectives Science Analysis Group (http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/reports/MFLO_WhitePaper_v12.doc).

Posted by: Phil Stooke Oct 19 2006, 07:24 PM

One little thing... on page 8 we find "Rovers on Mars have gotten bogged in low bearing-strength soils which so far have not been encountered on the Moon." Not really true - both Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2 ran into low strength soils and had some mobility issues.

Phil