Travelling to the channels, Extraordinarily unlikely |
Travelling to the channels, Extraordinarily unlikely |
Aug 13 2011, 10:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Opportunity is entering a multi-year science campaign at the rim of Endeavour crater, a campaign primarily driven by the interest in clays.
Eventually this investigation will conclude. So where next? Far, far to the south lies a location identified as a go-to target for one of the MSL candidate landing sites- a series of outflow channels. With no possibility of further Mossbauer integrations and the mini-TES severely degraded, wouldn't these features be good targets for an imaging/APXS only geology investigation? Iazu by the middle of the decade, unnamed crater south of Iazu by the end of the decade, channels by middle of the next decade... |
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Aug 18 2011, 06:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
I think by Iazu we could safely assume that Oppy is indestructible
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Aug 18 2011, 11:09 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
I think by Iazu we could safely assume that Oppy is indestructible The problem with Iazu as a target is that it's too realistic. It gives the impression of being just about doable. But if you look at the Endurance -> Victoria -> Endeavour progression it seems that each destination has been more crazily ambitious than the last. To fit the trend, Oppy's next target should be absurdly, laughably distant. Hence this thread. |
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Aug 18 2011, 12:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 3-January 10 Member No.: 5156 |
Maybe some problems of Oppy should be fixed, before we think about driving away from Endeavour?
Here is a short calculation of the cost to fix the broken hardware. -------------------- Need more input ...
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Aug 18 2011, 12:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 593 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 279 |
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Andy |
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