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I'm working on the Mars Surveyor 2001 project, a much more ambitious
project to another location on Mars, where we're planning that the Rover will
last many months, and travel many kilometers. The design is evolving, but it
would likely be a larger Rover, more capable, with robotic arms, and
it would be able to go off into the distance and leave the Lander alone.
That would be a logical extension of what we've done here in Pathfinder.
One of the goals with the future mission would be to identify rocks and
minerals that would be of interest to take back to Earth. And we'd want to
actually drill holes in rocks and take core samples for a future return
mission. That's what's in the works. It's very exciting.
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