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I believe Bill Nye put it this way - a human geologist can do the same work as our current Mars rovers, but 100-1000x faster. So what takes a week for a rover

I believe Bill Nye put it this way - a human geologist can do the same work as our current Mars rovers, but 100-1000x faster. So what takes a week for a rover might take a few minutes for a human walking on the surface.

lawpoop 11y ago
And cost how much more? More than 1000x more? It's probably economically worth it to just send probes. Better yet, swarms of mini-probes: http://news.mit.edu/2006/microbots http://news.mit.edu/2006/microbots