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Free Spirit : Rescuing a Rover Part 2

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Free Spirit : Rescuing a Rover Part 2

13,325 Views Length: 28:05 Ustream chat from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on efforts to rescue the Spirit rover, which is stuck in loose soil on Mars. We chat with with the Mars Rover Driver Ashley Stroupe (see the chat with rover project manager John Callas is part 1).



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  • ElementFEAR
    ElementFEAR: go to mars and see for yourselfs and take a bird and let it fly if it flys you can walk there but air on mars is thin earth air is combusted due to cloud effect where as mars air is open you may be able to breath there but i wouldnt incase you inhale...
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  • RealDarren
    RealDarren: Yes it seems to me that the soil used in the testbed is not of the same consistency as the soil under the wheels on Mars. The Martian looks to me to be somewhat grittier and less likely to stick together. Yes the Martian soil is quite fine but the...
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  • bterry
    bterry: loose soil is like snow. the thiner the tires the les friction and he eiser to move in snow. can you lift a few tires up and drive with less wheels on the soil? less friction well good luck--- T
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  • EAA859
    EAA859: Will the Martian Winter harden the soil.
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  • flubbermcdrool
    flubbermcdrool: Hand the controls to angry white redneck whose boyfriend just cheated on her and put her in a video simulator where she can run over her virtual boyfriend.
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  • SheeUn
    SheeUn: They will never free Spirit...
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  • MorkfromOrk
    MorkfromOrk: I am a little dishearten that this is the same rover and same rover team that was stuck before and really still in the same area from before. As soon as the rover started to get bogged down why was it instructed to go further without checking out the...
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  • world101
    world101: let the wheels make littleplatforms by moving the wheels left then forward then to the right then forward, then left and move forward and so on
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  • world101
    world101: do all wheels move indidvually? and do the wheels rotate all 360 deg?
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  • bbelanger
    bbelanger: could you scrape the soil out of the treads with the arm?
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