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 May 3 2005, 11:11 AM
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Does anybody know when and how many MSL will go, or when the decision on this will be made ?
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Dec 1 2005, 09:01 PM
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I'll say the same thing I said in another thread -- the ESA spokesman (I can't rmemeber his name) discussing the phyllosilicates said that the closest observed outcrops to either MER are a good thousand miles away. He was asked how long it might take for one or the other of the MER rovers to get to any phyllosilicate deposits, and he said (paraphrasing, my best recollection of his exact words), "Probably Martian centuries -- the closest is about a thousand miles away."
I remember this specifically because I thought it somewhat odd that a European scientist would reference the distance in miles and not kilometers. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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