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May 20 2004, 01:23 PM
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Has anyone any idea what kind of imaging system is being proposed for the MSL? Would it be the same or simiilar to the MER's, or as improved as the MER pancams are to those that were used on Pathfinder?
With a nuclear power source for the rover, and hopefully the mars telecoms orbiter in place the data rate and data volume could be phenomenal |
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Nov 11 2008, 03:03 PM
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You still have to render the entire box air tight. That means seals of every access panel, seals for every cable in, every cable out. That pressure is going to go up and down with thermal cycles. It might change the thermal properties of the box itself. Then you've got to have valves, flexible pipe work out the box, up the past and to the front of the lenses. Pipework that's going to bend with every camera movement. With all due respect, a $1.X billion dollar rover is just a tiny bit more complex than an R/C sub.
AND - at the end of all that - if you've got a CRT monitor or an old TV - go and blow on it. The dust doesn't move very much, if at all. I know - wind has cleared arrays etc before, but we don't know the mechanism by which that occurs, nor do we know the mechanism by which it sticks. If we really really want to have dust-removal - the best way is with the thin-film technique I blogged about at Valencia '06. Tiny power, low mass, low complexity. Turn them on for a few seconds - dust gone. Gas tanks, wipers, rolls of film - they're all very heavy, complicated, and have their own failure modes. DOug |
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