28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
9:27 p.m.
Dale Hooper wrote:
1) It would take Spirit or Opportunity two days to get there, I don't know how long to grind on it, and then awhile to examine it, etc. 2) Or send an astronaut on an EVA, he walks over and picks it up, etc.
Reminds me of an exchange that occurred during one of my NASA ambassador training sessions. The topic was Mars exploration and the speaker was with JPL. Someone asked how long it would take a couple of humans on scooters to duplicate the science done by the two MERs over the past 1.5 years. He replied "a few days". Patrick