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Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the robots-on-another-planet dept.

ivan1011001 writes "Spirit traveled just over 88 feet in an attempt to visit the crater "Bonneville" to look for evidence of water on Mars. Engineers had hoped the rover would travel 164 feet, but Spirit didn't cover the full distance because it spent more time than initially planned studying rocks and soil along the way. This is longer than its earlier PR of 70 feet."

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  1. Shame - what a waste by Angotull · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Personally, I wouldve got 10 Aibo's, slapped some high gain antenna's on their backs and let them do the job - wouldve happened quicker too. With the rest of the money I would have done something real, like send a manned ship behind them - u know, to do real work, not spend billions on seeing how quick we can slap a pod on a planet, and then see how slow we can make our R/C car go.