Thread: Spirit: Whats taking a week to get off the lander?
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Re: Spirit: Whats taking a week to get off the lander?
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Originally Posted by dlavery
Okay, now that I have that out of my system, here is the real answer: it was always planned to take at least 10 sols (martian days) to have the rover drive off the lander. -dave
How come the animation that I keep watching on NASA TV keeps showing it "out and about" in like 30 seconds then??

But seriously, speaking of the lander, how exactly do those wheels rotate to give it a "circular footprint" to drive in??

And are you really going to perform surgery on a poor martian rock like in the animation?

Oh, yeah, and I saw a spelling error on an intro slide for one of the animations!!

</me prepares to be smacked by Dave!>
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