Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis |
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Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis |
 Sep 18 2008, 11:05 AM
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200809191
You can listen via NPR, or via one of the web feeds that are listed on the site, but make sure you do listen if you can. |
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Sep 19 2008, 06:01 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14449 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Tune in now
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Sep 19 2008, 06:08 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14449 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
"What's next for Opportunity - time for another martian road trip - perhaps a really long one?"
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Sep 19 2008, 06:14 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14449 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Paraphrasing Squyres :
QUOTE Where to now? Well, we've exhausted the easy places - time to do something hard Bold, difficult, maybe impossible. To the SE of this at a distance of 12km, 7 miles is an enormous crater - we're going to head of towards it. I think it could take a couple of years. We think we can drive a lot faster than we have in the past. We're rolling the dice in a sense - we think it's the right direction to go anyway. Alfred McEwen - QUOTE October 10th - new HiRISE image to map the gap between the big crater and Victoria Rui.... you have clearance to explode. |
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Sep 19 2008, 06:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 19 2008, 08:14 PM)  Rui.... you have clearance to explode. 
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Sep 19 2008, 06:52 PM
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NO! WAY!
You guys must be pulling my leg. If not, this is the grandest news I've heard in a couple years.
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Sep 19 2008, 06:58 PM
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Last I checked, the date isn't April 1....
-the other Doug edit -- by the way: YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 19 2008, 07:23 PM
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Harrumble!!
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Viva software libre! |
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Sep 19 2008, 07:30 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 15-February 05 From: France Member No.: 169 |
That's just amazing !! This is going to be one hell of a route map to maintain
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Sep 19 2008, 07:34 PM
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mars EXPLORATION rovers
Am delighted by this news. |
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Sep 19 2008, 07:44 PM
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Awesome - we may not get what we want, but I'd rather Oppy die trying than miss out on some great science by trying to be safe at this point.
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Sep 19 2008, 07:51 PM
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That's Ithaca crater!!! It cannot be anything else!!! Let's go to Ithaca now and hug Steve Squyres!!!
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Sep 19 2008, 07:53 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14449 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (Pavel @ Sep 19 2008, 08:51 PM) That's Ithaca crater! Sorry - if I didn't make it clear - yes - it is - and they've named it Endeavour |
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Sep 19 2008, 07:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 718 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
As an American taxpayer, I must say that I wish all government programs produced the returns and guts of this one!
Thank god for flat terrain. 12 km is a long way at rover speed and forever if you have to keep dodging obstacles. -------------------- |
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Sep 19 2008, 08:02 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
I knew it all along.
 Just think, a couple years from now opportunity may be upstaging MSL! |
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