Future Planetary Exploration
It would be desirable to explore several of them with rovers. NASA and other space agencies could fruitfully spend a decade or more sending rovers to interesting spots on Mars. The rovers also could collect and cache samples for a future MSR. For as long as MSR missions have been studied, a parallel goal has been to place a network of stations around the Martian surface. Continuous measurements of seismic activity, meteorology, and heat flow from multiple stations would address key questions about the interior and atmosphere of Mars. Rovers and network stations require an orbiter to act as a telecommunications relay if significant amounts of data are to be returned. The Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) serve that role now. Mars Express and MAVEN can also acts as relays, but they have highly elliptical orbits that reduce their effectiveness for this role. NASA seems to believe that it needs to put a new, highly capable orbiter in place every 8-10 years to ensure a high probability of an operating orbiter being in place. Once an orbiter is added to the roadmap, the question becomes which science instruments to also add.
Voted up, IA, pinned to AH, and sharing. Thank you Barbara, for your comments. Yes we are blessed and it is a good thing Dad knew what to do. Thank you Au fait, I really appreciate you and all that you do. Thank you for the comment, votes up, sharing and pinning. The wedding was nice, had a good time made new friends from the Land Rover Club. They say to not even go to Mexico now. Your story is scary indeed. God was taking care of your family that day. It was a good thing your Dad thought quickly. Giving this another share. This is an experience that could happen to anyone and I think it makes sense to be alert. Voting this up AUI, and sharing. Also pinned to AH. Hope you guys had a good time at the wedding and that all is well now. Thank you Aunt Jimi, for your comments, votes and sharing, This was truly scary. 6 years ago from The reddest of the Red states! This is a scary story and I've decided with Halloween so near it might be a good story to share on that scary occasion.
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