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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 -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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