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Second Try at South Pole, Sending Another Phoenix
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post Jul 22 2008, 02:47 PM
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Now that Phoenix successfully landed at the northern plains, how about sending a spacecraft just like it to the sourthern plains? We know the design works and could get the science we never got from MPL in 1999.
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post Jul 22 2008, 08:26 PM
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Also, your polar MSL would have to be able to travel *fast* if you didn't want it encased in dry ice after only a couple of hundred sols.

Seems a waste of an RTG-powered rover to land it somewhere that will render it immobile after only a few months.

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- pioneer   Second Try at South Pole   Jul 22 2008, 02:47 PM
- - djellison   Phoenix is getting the science we never got from M...   Jul 22 2008, 02:48 PM
- - pioneer   Thanks for the quick reply! I just thought co...   Jul 22 2008, 02:50 PM
- - djellison   Oh - I'm sure it would - but having explored ...   Jul 22 2008, 03:00 PM
|- - tedstryk   Phoenix is also already an old spacecraft, and use...   Jul 22 2008, 03:14 PM
||- - Juramike   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jul 22 2008, 10:14 AM) ...   Jul 22 2008, 05:15 PM
||- - Ken90000   Doesn't the current MSL have a scoop and analy...   Jul 22 2008, 06:41 PM
|- - belleraphon1   QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 22 2008, 10:00 AM)...   Jul 23 2008, 02:39 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Jul 23 2008, 03:39 ...   Jul 24 2008, 07:50 AM
|- - belleraphon1   -quote deleted. Mod. I agree....with one lander t...   Jul 24 2008, 09:39 PM
- - dvandorn   Also, your polar MSL would have to be able to trav...   Jul 22 2008, 08:26 PM
|- - DDAVIS   Seems a waste of an RTG-powered rover to land it s...   Jul 22 2008, 10:23 PM
- - nprev   I'm gonna say not much, Don. The heat of an RT...   Jul 22 2008, 11:21 PM
|- - DDAVIS   On a side note, V2 probably got at least hip-deep ...   Jul 23 2008, 12:23 AM
- - nprev   It's been a LONG time, but IIRC the Viking pro...   Jul 23 2008, 12:42 AM
- - climber   Do you mean that this place could be the most alie...   Jul 23 2008, 07:40 AM
|- - belleraphon1   QUOTE (climber @ Jul 23 2008, 02:40 AM) D...   Jul 23 2008, 11:20 PM
- - dvandorn   However, in discussion of Martian carbonates, I wi...   Jul 24 2008, 02:17 AM
- - nprev   It would be nice to see some new Discovery-class l...   Jul 25 2008, 12:10 AM

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