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Unread 01-07-2007, 15:36
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Re: Opportunity Is Preparing To Descend Into The Victoria Crater

Sounds like dlavery is a proud papa with all the pictures. But Dave, where is the green target light?

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Originally Posted by msnbc
... aging rover ...
Not to be overly critical (Monday morning quarterback/backseat driver/etc), but given that they designed this thing to last only 90 days, and it lasted 3 years, why didn't they design it to last a longer time? There's a lot of exploring to do there and the scientists have it stop at almost every rock. Or did we have extra good engineers building it? It's sort of like Columbus finding America and going back to Europe at the end of the day.

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Originally Posted by JohnBoucher
I bet they won't be able to kill it....
My money is on the rover. Obviously it had time to practice climbing ramp-bots.
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