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|    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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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