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Aug 26 2005, 01:01 PM
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I've been told flatly by Peter Smith: can't be done.
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Aug 26 2005, 02:06 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Again I will say, lets be honest. We are image junkies, and image junkies prefer rovers to stationary landers. Worse, with MSL likely slipping to 2011, once Spirit and Opportunity die, we will have an addiction we are no longer able to feed, so a 2007 Mars rover would be nice. So would a longer-lived vehicle. But with the opportunity to get the science we will be getting out of this mission at a relatively low cost, given the already-spent money, I think that this mission will be a great one. And, as has been said by myself and others, there will be imaging consolations (the microscope, the new kind of terrain - and I wonder if we will see deposition of frost a la Viking 2 before Phoenix dies).
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Aug 26 2005, 10:36 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Aug 26 2005, 03:06 PM) Again I will say, lets be honest. We are image junkies, and image junkies prefer rovers to stationary landers. yeah true, but then the imagery is all we are given to play with... i wonder how many of us would become mini-tes, mossbauer, APXS, thermal, insolation, every measurement made on mars junkies with access to the full data stream from the MERs. someone commented recently about how imagery is regarded as the poor relative of the remote sensing 'real science' being done, and sure, people strive for decades sometimes to get 'their' instrument in orbit/on the surface, careers are made on the results, but why on earth (or mars) isn't the rest of the data available? (even in a degraded form like the raw imagery). so what if only a handful of people have the inclination, knowledge or skill to process it, surely this information should be available to the amatuer community in order that it can be shared by those who can to those who want to know. Doug, if i had my one question to ask steve it would be parsed from the above. Given the interest in the missions, why isn't more raw data made available? edited to include link to thread i referred to This post has been edited by paxdan: Aug 26 2005, 10:54 PM |
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