Two New Mars Rovers Will Be Launched In June

Posted by timothy on Monday May 12, 2003 @05:55AM from the a-roving dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "ABC News is running a story which talks about the next two rovers to explore Mars which will be launched in June of this year. NASA is borrowing some things from the Pathfinder mission to help insure a success as well as doing extensive testing which was apparently not done for the Mars Polar Lander. From the article: 'The two new rovers, which are about the size of a golf cart, will have more power and greater mobility than the Pathfinder's Sojourner rover. Both should be able to trek up to 44 yards across the surface every Martian day (24 Earth hours and 37 Earth minutes).'"

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Re:This is great!!! by twinkyminator · 2003-05-14 05:01 · Score: 0, Troll

For sure it's great, but I still think NASA is doing this just because of the Columbia accident, they have to make up for their mistakes and so on. Therefore I think there will be nothing special.