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Offline Nemesis

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Giant Martian...
« on: December 20, 2004, 04:25:22 pm »
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Giant Mars rover will search for life
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NASA will search for signs of life on Mars with a giant rover due to launch in 2009. The agency selected the vital instruments that the Mars Science Laboratory rover will carry on Tuesday.
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Now, NASA is planning a rover with three times the mass (600 kilograms) and twice the number of instruments (10) as those currently on Mars, the long-lived Spirit and Opportunity. These use remote sensing and instruments that can scratch away surfaces to analyse the geology of the Red Planet. But MSL will contain two "laboratories" in which samples can be collected, crushed and analysed.
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Re: Giant Martian...
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2004, 04:05:40 am »
Glad to see we are keeping up the effort on Mars.  If we are going to travel to a different planet that will be the one.  Though I think we need to be focusing on the station in Earth orbit and the moon as stepping stones to permanent, viable stations in space. 
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