Re: Mars rover sticker shock
- From: Korben Dallas <kd@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:18:02 -0800
robert casey wrote:
Building a rover that can take it and be happy in the hot and corrosive
environment on Venus would be an interesting challenge. Oh, we and the
Russians have had surface landers, but they lasted about a half hour at
best before the heat did them in.
sending a rover to venus would be as bad as sending a rover to the moon: it
would draw obvious analogies and attract too much attention to what these mars
rover projects really are, i.e. just a "we can do it too" projects to prove the
rest of the world that nasa can finally repeat the soviet successes with their
venus landers (which btw lasted a lot longer than they were designed to last
and had video feed) and their moon rovers (again, with video feed). nasa did not
want to be seen as an entity spending huge amounts of taxpayers money just for
ego-fixing purposes. and of course the conditions on mars are a walk in the park
compared to the conditions on venus.
.
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