Sol 800 coming up |
Sol 800 coming up |
Apr 1 2006, 08:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Yep, another nice round number to celebrate. 'Course, this one is slightly bittersweet now that Spirit has lost some mobility. But I remain optimistic that as Spirit crawls slowly through the dust towards McCool Hill, a tiny metallic chip will get lodged somewhere in the inner workings of the wheel and repair the open connection. We can but hope.
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Apr 3 2006, 08:12 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I have a different way to do the MER maths...
150,000 images $900M $6000 per image. Some people pay more than that for a bad piece of art work Doug |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
You're right, but you'd better like "calibration-target-sundial's" pictures!
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