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   Poliisi to All   
   Re: MERs: what limits their lifetime on    
   13 Jan 04 14:07:21   
   
   From: kysy@erikseen.com.retro.com   
      
   > Assuming all systems check out o.k. and the rover drives off into the   
   > Martian sunset towards the distant hills in one direction, what is the   
   > maximum possible range we can expect it to cover in the remaining 80   
   > or so Sols of primary mission left?   
      
   I have faint memory, that it was something like 10km. But they are there to   
   do science,  so they try to spend all their time drilling rocks instead of   
   driving to sunset. Maybe if there were something really extraordinary (like   
   Arnold Schwarznegger) in few km distance they might go for it.   
      
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