Nasa to send new rover to Mars in 2020
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#2I'd like to see it have an instrument to "culture" soil samples with various temperature, and moisture settings.
It would also try increasing atmospheric pressure, and sunlight to possibly speed up any biological reactions.
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#3Doesn't Elon Musk want to have people walking around on Mars by 2020?
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#4Well it looks like I'm going to be dead by the time they send something interesting there.
Back in the days of Apollo, they risked a hell of a lot in the name of exploration. It'd be nice to see the same spirit applied to Mars.
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#5Anyone think it will be possible to crowd-fund a private rover by then?
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#6I think this kinds of headlines would really anger me if I were 85.
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#7I can't but think this is bad PR for NASA (in an unintended consequence kind of way).
"How cool is it that we've got an awesome rover on Mars! ...oh they're sending a new generation one there in 18 years time? Bah... now I have to wait for the good stuff to happen. Curiosity is already last generation gear."
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#8I can't but think this is bad PR for NASA (in an unintended consequence kind of way). "How cool is it that we've got an awesome rover on Mars! ...oh they're sending a new generation one there in 18 years time? Bah... now I have to wait for the good stuff to happen. Curiosity is already last generation gear."
8 years, not 18, and I don't think many people think of Mars rovers the same way as they think of their phone.
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#9This is good. They'll be able to ask the Chinese to walk over and repair it if it breaks.
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#10By 2020 I'd kind of hope we're sending mostly-autonomous humanoid robots. Wouldn't that really inspire people's imagination? And they could start building the infrastructure for a colony.