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Dec 3 2008, 08:58 PM
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/dec/H...MSL_Update.html
From the wording of this announcement, MSL is clearly still on, which is a good thing. We'll have to wait and see. Doug |
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Dec 5 2008, 05:45 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
It's a good question but I don't know what the landing date would be. Hazarding a guess that it'd be midsummer 2012, you're looking at Ls around 130, which is midwinter in the southern hemisphere. That's bad for power (because MSL would have to use lots of power just to warm up motors before moving), but depending on how you look at things it might not be as bad as it would be for a 2009 launch, where it'd arrive in early winter. The 2010 landing might have better temperature conditions on the day of landing, but there'd be a long period of things not getting better after landing. The 2012 landing might have about the worst temperature conditions of the year on the day of landing, which should be steadily improving with time, so there would be a shorter period of relative inactivity following landing.
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