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2005-04-12 Home Front: Tech
Nasa extends Mars rover lifespan
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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-12 11:50:51 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 JPL Mars Rover Site




Mars Panorama from Spirit Rover

Posted by BigEd 2005-04-12 12:11:16 PM||   2005-04-12 12:11:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Eventually, of course, Mars will be populated by the descendants of our rovers. They'll look back at Earth and wonder how anything could live on that wet, hot ball.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-04-12 12:21:38 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-04-12 12:21:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Robert:

I, for one, will welcome our new robot Martian overlords.
Posted by Carl in N.H.  2005-04-12 12:55:09 PM||   2005-04-12 12:55:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2005-04-12 1:49:55 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2005-04-12 1:49:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I want to get a hand-made atomizer shipped back!
Posted by Tkat 2005-04-12 1:56:05 PM||   2005-04-12 1:56:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Endurance Crater is already turning out to be something of a misnomer.

Hopefully the next rover teams are learning from this properly, including taking into consideration the possibility that we might want these machines to continue running until humans get there.
Posted by Dishman  2005-04-12 2:54:13 PM||   2005-04-12 2:54:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 look at this prototype of a house printing machine:
Whole House Machine

Note how NASA is looking at it to print out buildings on the moon.
Posted by 3dc 2005-04-12 7:05:14 PM||   2005-04-12 7:05:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Tkat - I just want them to ship back 200 years of natural gas from Jupiter's moons.
Posted by 3dc 2005-04-12 7:06:17 PM||   2005-04-12 7:06:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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