Drive on Opportunity

Jeff Findley writes:

Unmanned rovers "doing science" is quite inferior to manned missions
returning *many* samples to *far* better equipped earth based labs for
detailed analyses.

You're comparing apples to truckloads of oranges. Manned missions are
(would be) much more expensive, especially if you want more than flags
and footprints. And for the costs of a manned mission you could
literally spray Mars with rovers and return lots of selected samples if
you want to.

But all of this has been discussed to death already. Nobody in his right
mind will ever propose manned Mars missions for "science" if he has to
pay for it.


Jochem

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