MSL FAQ - The pool of questions |
MSL FAQ - The pool of questions |
Jun 1 2007, 03:11 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Rob Manning and I swopped emails last night - and we think it might make sense to pool all the questions people have about MSL (and specifically MSL's EDL ) into one thread - and then answer as many as make sense either via a Q'n'A in the style of the previous ones I've done with Steve and Jim - or via Rob's typing fingers.
It'll be a few weeks till we sort this out - but submit-away until then Doug |
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Jul 14 2007, 12:39 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Agreed, Monitor. However, that sounds like a potentially valuable standard feature to add to any and all future rovers. It would be great to carry along significant samples for possible later return or more detailed examination, whether by MSR or eventual manned missions...saves a lot of footwork for the latter!
Of course, the science team would have to be pretty selective...I can just see Spirit & Oppy hauling around about 500 kg of rocks each after traveling only 1000 meters or so... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 14 2007, 03:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Of course, the science team would have to be pretty selective...I can just see Spirit & Oppy hauling around about 500 kg of rocks each after traveling only 1000 meters or so... Shades of The Long, Long Trailer... QUOTE ...a honeymoon journey fraught with tilted axles and Lucy's ill-advised collection of large souvenir rocks. But we would have a good name for the rover - Lucy! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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