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Mar 22 2008, 06:47 PM
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Mar 24 2008, 10:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Mar 24 2008, 11:55 PM
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What a pity if the rovers outlast the willingness to fund them. However a compromise stance might be brought forward to cease driving one or both rovers and continue to use the cameras to monitor one location like the Viking landers. The cameras on Spirit are in good condition, The fouled optics of Opportunity would render it less useful in that capacity. I would save the imaging capability of an immobile Spirit rover if only a fragment of the mission could be salvaged.
I would like to see more use of the cameras for imaging low sun angle scenery, as well as time lapse studies of lighting changes and clouds. A fixed location camera may lend itself to increased consideration of such photography. Don |
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