What? No talk about the Mars Rover?

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
Don't worry - the Nova show on Saturday was the same as the one on Tuesday except they showed a single colour photograph.

Yea, quite lame...hopefully things will be shown soon, probably Discovery or Learning Channel

[Taz-in-Space]

I'll be interested seeing what kind of landing the next rover makes.
If sucessful, does anyone know how far apart they will be? Or how fast and far they can go?
Would be way cool to see them taking pictures of each other!

[Loser]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
I'll be interested seeing what kind of landing the next rover makes.
If sucessful, does anyone know how far apart they will be? Or how fast and far they can go?
Would be way cool to see them taking pictures of each other!

I believe they are on opposite sides of the world.

[Atrocities]

I wonder if the Discovery Channel will do somthing on this? It seems like a prime oppurtunity for a good hour long feature or documentary.

[Captain Kwok]

I think it was mentioned that the rovers' missions will Last about 3 months. That gives lots of time to explore once they start roving.

The problem with the previous "Pathfinder" mission was that the NASA guys said there wasn't enough "science" on/from it. The new rovers as mentioned already are much larger and packed with lots of excellent instruments!

Let's just hope the other rover lands safely too!

[Narrew]

I wish we had a camera crew there to watch the landing in real time not computer generated. I could see some alien on Mars looking into the sky thinking WTH? That is one HUGE piece of hail. Oh well I digress.

[David E. Gervais]

I was thinking, if they had a permanent satalite in orbit around mars, the future landers could save on payload by using it as a relay to send info back to earth. That way they wouldn't need such big bulky transmitters. The space could be used for more scientific equipment.

Just a thought, Cheers!