Re: NASA should send many SMALL Mars rovers to survey

In article <s29dp1pqbok5kl5v24e8rdvpgaauf6imfn@xxxxxxx>,
OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>...still going to cling to my vision of Sojourner having dug a dry moat
>around Pathfinder when it went into "circle the wagons" mode after
>Pathfinder died, and did so until it got below the surface level
>enough to block off enough sunlight to keep it from powering up :-)

Alas for the moat, the Sojourner operations crew expected that it probably
wouldn't even make one lap around Pathfinder before encountering a rock
big enough to make it stop and await further instructions.
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