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> How much of the surface have they covered with rovers? They've landed four successful rovers on the surface. One the size of a microwave oven, two the size o
by nkoren 14y ago
> How much of the surface have they covered with rovers?
They've landed four successful rovers on the surface. One the size of a microwave oven, two the size of small golf carts, and one the size of a BMW Mini.
Meanwhile, Mars has approximately the same land area as all the continents of earth put together. It's a big place.
Feel free to do the math to answer your question, but there'll be an awful lot of zeros after the decimal place.
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- prawks 14y agoIt was a rhetorical question, perhaps improperly phrased as such. The point being that they have barely even begun to attempt to scratch the surface. How effective are rovers at doing this? Shouldn't the ultimate goal to be to gather data to allow more extensive exploration (likely by humans)?