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- From: paulos@roma.berkeley.edu (Eric Paulos)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.230824.12476@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:08:24 GMT
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- I believe that many small robots is the only viable method to explore
- planets because it allows redundance as a feasible option. The risks
- involved in a single large robot are far to great to take considering
- the numerous variables involved in planetary exploration. As an example
- NASA used TWO voyagers and TWO martian landers in the mid-seventies. Numerous,
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