Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
by elorant on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:55AM
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Because it takes ages to plan a new mission and the vehicle we send is related to the goals of each mission. It's not like they have a rover stand-by and then decide where to land it. The equipment of the vehicle and the research it has to carry very much determine the way it will be build. So what we've send so far depends on the data we had years ago.
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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
by throwaway5752 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:03AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Histor...
Curiosity landed 8 years after the call for proposal. If I recall, the landing site (Gale Crater rim) was considered extremely interesting at the time.