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melling on May 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover

How close are the two rovers? A great follow up to the Google Lunar Challenge would be some sort of Mars Rover Challenge. Must make contact with Spirit then drive on to Viking, or some other human lander.

hugh3 on May 25, 2011 [–]

Roughly on opposite sides of the planet. If you've got a rover that can drive halfway around Mars, there's a lot more interesting things to look at than that, I'm sure.

InclinedPlane on May 25, 2011 | [–]

If Opportunity traveled as fast as it possibly could it would take a century to reach Spirit, though the chances of it lasting that long are low.

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