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 May 13 2006, 10:46 AM
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I went to Mt Teide twice as a teenager - it's an astonishing, barren, beautiful place - the plateau on the top of Tenerife from which the final tip of the volcano spikes upwards.....
Anyway - I spotted this vid at the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4767403.stm Doug |
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May 18 2006, 03:55 PM
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One of the attractions at the ILA2006 Space Pavilion is the full-scale ExoMars
rover mock-up based on an artist's impression of Europe’s next mission to Mars and the first robotic mission with the European Space Exploration Programme Aurora. Full story: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Aurora/SEMBR89ATME_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 18 2006, 04:22 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 18 2006, 04:55 PM)  One of the attractions at the ILA2006 Space Pavilion is the full-scale ExoMars rover mock-up based on an artist's impression of Europe’s next mission to Mars Interesting - there appears to be quite a lot of solar panel surface area. At a guess from looking at the mockup it looks like there should be enough real estate there for 3-4m^2 of cells. And the whole panel deck can tilt. It's no RTG but it should be well able to push out >1kw-hour/sol throughout an entire martian year in near equatorial regions or enable a 2kw/sol ~200 Sol mission at fairly high latitudes (up to around 60 deg). Does anyone have any more specific info on the planned power requirements for ExoMars? |
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May 18 2006, 04:50 PM
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QUOTE (helvick @ May 18 2006, 05:22 PM) And the whole panel deck can tilt. Helvick: I don't think the panels tilt in the design we're seeing. It's a cute rover design, though! Do you think a bolt of lightning would do it any good? Bob Shaw
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djellison Exomars etsting at Mt Teide May 13 2006, 10:46 AM
akuo Teide is a beautiful place. Some areas there reall... May 13 2006, 11:22 AM
helvick QUOTE (akuo @ May 13 2006, 12:22 PM) As f... May 13 2006, 11:35 AM Bob Shaw Slightly altered!
Bob Shaw May 13 2006, 01:18 PM MizarKey I know it's a dog eat dog world out there, but... May 16 2006, 12:26 AM djellison I imagine they've read the book - but seing as... May 16 2006, 07:23 AM Analyst Very sad they have to invent the wheel again (not ... May 16 2006, 07:44 AM djellison Well - you could look at it 1000 ways, but I have ... May 16 2006, 08:15 AM climber They (we) gona need MRO anyway for site selection,... May 16 2006, 08:43 AM karolp Coming back to the design of the rover itself: whe... May 18 2006, 03:46 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (karolp @ May 18 2006, 04:46 PM) RT... May 18 2006, 04:15 PM tty QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 18 2006, 06:15 PM) ... May 18 2006, 06:04 PM monitorlizard QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 18 2006, 11:15 AM) ... May 18 2006, 07:41 PM Bob Shaw Here's that ESA PR shot, but with ExoMars move... May 18 2006, 07:44 PM Bob Shaw Have a look at the CAD drawing of the proposed Mar... May 19 2006, 04:02 PM BruceMoomaw Oh, yes -- the drill on that thing would have been... May 19 2006, 09:44 PM |
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