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Re:Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-the... by bayesian_horse on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:11AM (#30384350)
Humans can get a lot more work done, just by their dexterity, flexibility and ability to learn and adapt. For robots, even simple tasks have to be pre-planned, in this case sometimes years in advance.

It is conceivable that you could build a robot/machine that can collect one type of sample and do one type of analysis cheaper and quicker than a Human. However, human astronauts can do multiple types of these, maybe even adapt them on the fly.

Re:Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-the... by jvanderbot on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:51PM (#30390268)
for this, teleoperation from orbit seems reasonable. It's not been tried however.