Comments on: Mars, ho! http://blogs.earthsky.org/pamelagay/2007/07/06/mars-ho/ Exploring the sky, one sidereal day at a time. Sat, 17 May 2008 01:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: sglasson http://blogs.earthsky.org/pamelagay/2007/07/06/mars-ho/#comment-52 sglasson Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:38:15 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/pamelagay/2007/07/06/mars-ho/#comment-52 You would think they'd be able to do something to salvage the Phoenix instead of leaving it to die with the winter freeze, but I suppose they calculated the cost of a seperate non-solar power and the cost of fuel upon returning and decided it best not to worry about a flight home. You would think they’d be able to do something to salvage the Phoenix instead of leaving it to die with the winter freeze, but I suppose they calculated the cost of a seperate non-solar power and the cost of fuel upon returning and decided it best not to worry about a flight home.

]]> By: Stephen http://blogs.earthsky.org/pamelagay/2007/07/06/mars-ho/#comment-42 Stephen Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:03:20 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/pamelagay/2007/07/06/mars-ho/#comment-42 If engineers were worried about dust on the panels, why not install windshield wipers? Perhaps there are no space qualified windshield wipers... A Martian colonist is going to find MPL, and put it up on eBay, two weeks after the Beagle goes up. If engineers were worried about dust on the panels, why not install windshield wipers? Perhaps there are no space qualified windshield wipers…

A Martian colonist is going to find MPL, and put it up on eBay, two weeks after the Beagle goes up.

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