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Old May 5th 04, 01:34 PM
Brian Davis
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Default Mars rover climbing abilities

Art Martin wrote:

I'm curious... what the climbing abilities of the rovers really is


I don't know the specs, but I've seen video of them handling some
steep (30°+?) slopes in the Mars Yard.

I so want that Rover to get up above it all and give us some really
spellbounding panoramas of the area.


Opportunity has reached Endurance crater, and wow, look at that
outcrop! Multple fine layers, thick monolithic (& fractured!) layers,
different colored layers, etc. Really nice, with a little dune field
in the middle. The wide-angle view that's currently up is made from
navcam views, but in the raw image section some of the outcrops have
been imaged already with what looks like every filter on the Pancam.
Beautiful, beautiful.
*And*, it looks like Edurance might even be enterable (for a very
brave rover, anyway).

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