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Sol 800 coming up
SFJCody
post Apr 1 2006, 08:16 PM
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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. wheel.gif cool.gif We can but hope.
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djellison
post Apr 3 2006, 08:12 PM
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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 smile.gif

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post Apr 3 2006, 08:30 PM
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You're right, but you'd better like "calibration-target-sundial's" pictures!


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post Apr 3 2006, 08:43 PM
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I do smile.gif

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- SFJCody   Sol 800 coming up   Apr 1 2006, 08:16 PM
- - dilo   Frankly, I am a little bit worried by Spirit mobil...   Apr 1 2006, 08:38 PM
|- - climber   You're right, I do have a strange mood too. An...   Apr 3 2006, 07:32 AM
- - djellison   Good point - I'd totally forgotten to factor t...   Apr 3 2006, 12:12 PM
|- - climber   Well, pathfinder get Sojourner + Carl Sagan's ...   Apr 3 2006, 12:25 PM
- - djellison   Sojourner was $25m over and above Pathfinder...   Apr 3 2006, 12:58 PM
|- - mars loon   I dont have the numbers at the moment, but how ab...   Apr 3 2006, 01:26 PM
|- - dilo   Thanks for the statistics, climber et al. In addit...   Apr 3 2006, 07:56 PM
- - djellison   I have a different way to do the MER maths... 150...   Apr 3 2006, 08:12 PM
- - climber   You're right, but you'd better like ...   Apr 3 2006, 08:30 PM
- - djellison   I do Doug   Apr 3 2006, 08:43 PM

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