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May 26 2006, 08:48 AM
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May 26 2006, 09:31 AM
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That's a neat trick getting it to roll to a stop at the top of a nice hill! That does rather suggest a 5-metre landing ellipse. But, apart from its shiney-zingyiness (and surely that's so 1990's?) isn't it a wee bit familiar? Is this the ESA taking up the CCCP's torch that formerly produced the TU-144 and Buran? Andy G |
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May 26 2006, 10:17 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Berlin Member No.: 744 |
At the first sight what looks much different to me are 3 "eyes" on top of that mast instead of 2 as in MERs. Is this 1. Red 2. Green 3. Blue or something else? Also, I cannot really see any navcams...
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May 26 2006, 11:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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May 26 2006, 01:40 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
It surely is! And look at all those tiny flags on it! Dressed for success!... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 27 2006, 02:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 11-December 04 Member No.: 120 |
And armed to kill!
I wonder if the motors on that segmented neck will be used only for deployment or if that camera platform will retain its flexibility throughout the mission (with how many degrees of freedom?). It could make some pretty awesome self-portraits! There seems to be no IDD arm on the thing, other than that monstrous drilling device. So I guess all sample analysis will be done inside the machine? |
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May 28 2006, 01:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
There seems to be no IDD arm on the thing, other than that monstrous drilling device. So I guess all sample analysis will be done inside the machine? Yes there is, tucked under the front there. -------------------- |
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May 28 2006, 01:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
I hope they have some way to pop the drill assembly off the rover if it gets stuck - it'd be a bit of a pity if the drill simply screwed the thing solidly to one spot!
Hmmm... ...Pepsi, anyone? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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May 30 2006, 11:40 AM
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Well, the ESA Marsrover ExoMars 2011 project is featured on the cover of ESA bulletin N° 126 - May 2006. This is a FREE tri-monthly magazine by ESA publications on high quality glossy paper.
Great ExoMars article by the Microgravity & Exploration program dept of ESTEC - Noordwijk - Netherlands. |
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May 30 2006, 12:22 PM
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At the first sight what looks much different to me are 3 "eyes" on top of that mast instead of 2 as in MERs. Is this 1. Red 2. Green 3. Blue or something else? Well - actually, MER has 5 eyes on the mast. Two Pancams, Two Hazcams, and Mini-Tes...perhaps this is two variable focal length cameras, and then something TES like in the middle...OR...two wide angle navcams, and a zoom-able high res pancam in mono. |
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May 30 2006, 10:00 PM
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Well, the ESA Marsrover ExoMars 2011 project is featured on the cover of ESA bulletin N° 126 - May 2006. This is a FREE tri-monthly magazine by ESA publications on high quality glossy paper. Great ExoMars article by the Microgravity & Exploration program dept of ESTEC - Noordwijk - Netherlands. It's great, I saw this post while at work. then I arrived home to find the ESA rover looking up at me from the cover of the bulletin. It really is great, being free and all is even nicer! There's a nice article on SOHO too. -------------------- Turn the middle side topwise....TOPWISE!!
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May 31 2006, 01:50 AM
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I notice the ExoMars rover as drawn in those pics has got quite large cleats on its wheels. Would larger ones have been useful on the MERs as well (for getting more easily out of sandtraps, say)?
====== Stephen (The previously included drawings, unfortunately, have been removed from the website.) http://ars.asi.it/bandi/marte2003/drill-ao-pip.html Yes and no. The pics on that page do appear to be missing. However, there is a zip file here (about 850K): http://ars.asi.it/bandi/marte2003/drill.ZIP which contains an MS word document of the same article with the pics embedded. ====== Stephen EDIT NOTE: These were actually two separate posts! |
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May 31 2006, 09:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
I notice the ExoMars rover as drawn in those pics has got quite large cleats on its wheels. Would larger ones have been useful on the MERs as well (for getting more easily out of sandtraps, say)? Nope. The best "tires" or wheels for sandy terrain are ones with very wide and flat with octogonal strips. The cleats does not help anything but to worse the traction capability due to a lower contact surface area. The cleats are only good for firm lands. Rodolfo |
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Jun 13 2006, 12:53 PM
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British Scientists Unveil Latest Craft To Search For Life On Mars
London, England (AFP) Jun 12, 2006 British scientists on Monday took the wraps off a prototype craft to search for signs of life on Mars, hailing it the smartest piece of equipment ever designed for exploration of the red planet. http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/British_S...fe_On_Mars.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 13 2006, 01:07 PM
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British Scientists Unveil Latest Craft To Search For Life On Mars London, England (AFP) Jun 12, 2006 British scientists on Monday took the wraps off a prototype craft to search for signs of life on Mars, hailing it the smartest piece of equipment ever designed for exploration of the red planet. http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/British_S...fe_On_Mars.html Bridget?!? -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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