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Is this canyon anywhere near our rovers? EDIT: looked it up, they're basically on the opposite sides of the planet Water: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohac
by downWidOutaFite 5y ago
Is this canyon anywhere near our rovers?
EDIT: looked it up, they're basically on the opposite sides of the planet
Water: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Water¶ms=7_S_72_W_globe:Mars https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Water&par...
Perseverance rover: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Perseverance_(rover)¶ms=18.4447_N_77.4508_E_globe:Mars https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Persevera...
- ryanmercer 5y agoNo, and Valles Marineris is about 7km deep in places vs the Grand Canyon's 1.8km max depth, not something a rover could go check out. Robert Zubrin actually uses Valles Marineris as part of the plot in his work of fiction First Landing that lays out how a manned mission to Mars might go.
- ChuckMcM 5y agoBut a helicopter could. :-)
- jvanderbot 5y agoexactly, and in the newfound current era of pinpoint orbit-to-surface landings you might just send a rover too.
- duxup 5y agoI'm imagining a future where space colonization is just robots fighting it out / eachother.
- jq-r 5y agoAlso mentioned in the Expanse book series as region which was colonized by Texans (IIRC) so they have that nice accent.