QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 15 2009, 03:43 PM)
Pan di Spagna is translated as "Sponge Cake" but it does not pay justice to this delicious pastry base.
Wonderful! From "pan di spagna" to "pan di spugna".
QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 15 2009, 03:43 PM)
Now, can we go back to the topic at hand, please?
Paolo
Right you are!
There is a thing that worries me, about the mess Spirit is in.
You (your team) got the DE to mimic the ground Spirit is into.
Then you put the terrestrial Spirit in the testbed and you recreate the Mars situation putting DE all around the Rover, the closest as possible as the situation on Mars.
Then start to move the rover according to the strategy you planned.
It's very unlikely you succeed at the first attempt,
so you carry Siprit out of the testbed, rearrange the soil, put Spirit back in and then re-recreate the mess Spirit is in.
How can you be sure to recreate the same situation as the previous one?
And at the 1000th attempt? Don't you risk to have a substantially different situation from the first one?
I'm sure, anyway, that you thought about it. How did you resolve it?
Ciao,
Ermanno