*blush* Well, we just got our 100,000th image from Mars... beyond our ability to catalogue and study, actually. Weird ideas are *good*... that's the best way IMO to make progress. The drill is problematic, in the sense of conflicting desires... a design that will work well on the 2007 large rover down to 2m or so won't be easily scalable to 100s of meters depth on future missions. And it is hard to fly something that high-profile without previous more-modest versions. And life, and water, if they exist on Mars probably do so at depth rather than near-surface.
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Date: 2001-11-21 01:04 am (UTC)