The trouble with just photos is they only show what anything looks
like, they tell nothing about WHAT anything is made of. The rovers are
about as simple as you can get and yet still be able to give good data
about what they are testing.



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"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
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I have been closely following the Mars mission and understand the
importance
of the experiments, but certainly all of that gear ads complexity.
Then I
look at the photo's Cassini is sending back and am in awe. So I got
to
thinking, what the complexities be, in designing a probe that is
just a hi
res camera, and a transmitter/receiver. Considering economy of
scale, if the
device were small and simple, we could product them cheaply and in
such
quantities that we could launch them all over the solar system. Let
them
wander, take photo's and send them home.

What are we talking in expense? complexity? doablibility?

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BV.
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