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What Re-born '01 Lander Platform?
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post Jan 20 2005, 12:55 AM
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Is Phonix not the reborn '99 Polar Lander?

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post Jan 22 2005, 11:46 AM
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Yup - Sojourner was essentially a brilliant technological achievment and quietly, a scientific folly. It trundled around taking APXS measurements of the dust on top of rocks smile.gif

BUT - it was cool, it flight proved the 6 wheel rocker-bogey system, it demostrated that roving on mars IS possible, and it showed that a RAT was needed smile.gif Pathfinder was an interesting misson technologically as well. It demonstrated the brave EDL system - showed mars can be done for a lot less than Viking - and showed that space can be 'cool' in this Internet generation.

Something i'd quite like to do is a full re-creation of Sojourners drives around the landing site using the 3d model of the landing site and a rendered sojourner.

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- dot.dk   What Re-born '01 Lander Platform?   Jan 20 2005, 12:55 AM
- - djellison   It's the part-built 2001 lander, taken out of ...   Jan 20 2005, 09:18 AM
- - tedstryk   Indeed it will be. The advantage it has over miss...   Jan 20 2005, 11:12 AM
- - dot.dk   Why was the 2001 lander cancelled? Was it because...   Jan 20 2005, 11:28 AM
- - djellison   Yeah - it shares most of the same systems - it...   Jan 20 2005, 11:55 AM
- - lyford   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 20 2005, 03:55 AM).......   Jan 21 2005, 12:23 AM
- - tedstryk   To make room for the MPL instrumentation.   Jan 21 2005, 01:23 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Yes -- that rover, tiny though it was, was pretty ...   Jan 22 2005, 02:46 AM
- - remcook   QUOTE Actually, the whole idea of Sojourner was ye...   Jan 22 2005, 10:36 AM
- - djellison   Yup - Sojourner was essentially a brilliant techno...   Jan 22 2005, 11:46 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   As a technology demonstrator, Sojourner was pretty...   Jan 22 2005, 11:52 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Let me add that: (1) The rocker-bogey system had...   Jan 22 2005, 12:03 PM
- - tedstryk   Which, as I said in another group once, is why I ...   Jan 22 2005, 01:07 PM
- - lyford   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 22 2005, 05:07 AM)Which...   Jan 23 2005, 05:28 PM

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