Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past |
Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past |
Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
May 21 2007, 08:19 PM
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May 22 2007, 10:03 PM
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Multiple MER's is a subject that's been done to death here and elsewhere. The bottom line is that while MER has been fantastic, the number of sites you can land with this system is very very small and very very limited and it's a highly inefficient way of getting a very small payload onto the ground. Because of that, MER's heritage should be in systems, not the entire vehicle.
If MSL works - you've got many orders of magnitude more Mars that can be accessed, and then it does make some sense to think about reusing MSL or indeed just its decent stage to deliver payloads. Doug |
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Guest_Oersted_* |
May 23 2007, 09:24 AM
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Wouldn't it just mean some relatively minor modifications to the EDL system to make MER capable of landing in many more places? A bigger chute, larger retro-rockets? - The solar-powered concept is literally proving better and better for every day the rovers keep chugging on and making new discoveries.
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