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With robotics, it's no harder than any other pioneering expeditions humans have conducted.
by ColanR 10y ago
With robotics, it's no harder than any other pioneering expeditions humans have conducted.
- Animats 10y agoAs I told the robotics people at Stanford who were talking about something similar on the moon in the 1980s, "how soon can you do it in Arizona?" The machines sent to Mars so far are very small and wimpy. Because they're semi-teleoperated, and have very limited solar power, they're really slow. If you want to do any high-power activity on Mars, you'll probably have to send a nuclear reactor.