Mars rover facing two-year trek

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 23:37 GMT, Monday, 22 September 2008 00:37 UK

Mars rover facing two-year trek

The US space agency is to send its Mars rover
Opportunity on a two-year trek to try to reach
a crater called Endeavour.

The robot will have to move about 11km to get
to its new target - a distance that would double
what it has already achieved on the planet.

Endeavour is much bigger than anything investigated
to date, and will allow a broader range of rocks
to be studied.

Opportunity arrived on Mars in January 2004 on a
mission scheduled initially to last just three
months.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7630617.stm

[Submariner]

1. That's job security for the Rover driver for a couple of years

as long as he doesn't wig out into a road rage and smash into a rock.

Seriously, this is cool stuff. BBC out does U.S. news again.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Never knew it has to go backwards until now. Thanks for the report. n/t