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Nasa Expands Rover Science Team
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post Oct 20 2005, 12:39 AM
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http://marsrover.nasa.gov/spotlight/20051019.html

Looks like NASA has realized that they can't wear the rovers out anytime soon. And instead of the rovers wearing the science team out NASA is expanding the team cool.gif

That's really good news biggrin.gif


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post Oct 21 2005, 07:49 PM
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It's also unclear how many people have left the team to work on other stuff so we don't know if this is a net gain in the number of scientists paid to examine MER data. Overall, JPL is cutting it's workforce:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=.../space_jpl_dc_1
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- dot.dk   Nasa Expands Rover Science Team   Oct 20 2005, 12:39 AM
- - RNeuhaus   Hope that the below scientists are going to monito...   Oct 20 2005, 02:48 PM
- - dvandorn   Sounds like several of these new team members will...   Oct 20 2005, 03:07 PM
- - Burmese   It's also unclear how many people have left th...   Oct 21 2005, 07:49 PM

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