MSL landing site: Gale Crater |
MSL landing site: Gale Crater |
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I don't think so. In any case it would be very difficult to drive a rover up such a slope.
I think that the most sensitive idea to explore these sites (and WE MUST explore them) is this: http://web.mit.edu/iang/www/pubs/artillery_05.pdf or a tethered rover unreeled from the top of the cliff (I think JPL was working on something like that a decade or so ago) |
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Great article, though in a wryly peculiar way makes reference of "...Deep Space 2 mission, and the Russian Mars-96 mission are used to demonstrate the feasibility of <Artillery based explorers>." ..as considering these were *failed* missions, with DS2 having failed in its surface phase, just a pinch of a bad association for the fund raising PR aspect.. Nonetheless, thats really cool and id love to see as a sort of Scout mission to fill the void left by NetLanders, er um uh MetNet hopefully... ..and pondering the viability of dotting the martian landscape with similar objects via Mars aerobot plane or balloon platform. |
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