[X] My Assistant

[tedstryk]

http://barsoom.msss.com/mars_images/moc/20...1/03/index.html

Some cool new view of Spirt's path from MGS. You can actually follow its tracks from the lander to the hills.

[djellison]

I wonder just how long MGS can last It's achievments are astonishing - but 10 years in space isnt that far away and would be a quite astonishing achievment.

Mars has a total surface area of around 145M sq km - and a sq km at MOC res is something like 160,000 pixels at 8 bits - call it 1.28 Mbits per sq Km.

TECHNICALLY - full 1.5m/pixel resolution of the whole planet could be imaged - allowing 30% re-imaging - with just under 250 Gbits.

At an average of 60kbps, with 8hrs per day transmission - 144 days

Oh - how badly I understand spacecraft Thats a stupid figure.

Doug