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Re: Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary
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No speed demon though, Opportunity's average is 0.0003052 mi/hour or 0.0004476 ft/sec or 0.0053709 in/sec. That's about the thickness of aluminum foil per second. To be fair, it did spend a lot of time shivering in its tracks.
If that's how quickly it moved, then that's way slower than I thought. Is that the average speed at which it moved when it was actually moving, or the average speed over the entire time the robot was on Mars?
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