Curiosity landing is in a week

Re:Curiosity landing is in a week by mturmon on Sunday July 29, 2012 @04:54PM (#4309698)

No, not for curiosity. That robot is expected to drive many kms as part of its planned activities. Its nominal speed is 30 m per hour.

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Re:Curiosity landing is in a week by dredmorbius on Sunday July 29, 2012 @06:48PM (#4310035)

Which is 120 mm/sec -- about 4.75 inches, as parent noted.

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Re:Curiosity landing is in a week by mturmon on Monday July 30, 2012 @12:05AM (#4310856)

Actually, 30 m/hour is 8 mm/sec. But that's a bad choice of units, because seconds is not a good mission time scale.

The point is that, within a couple of hours, you can drive beyond the contamination radius. And, over the span of the mission, you most certainly will.

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Re:Curiosity landing is in a week by dredmorbius on Monday July 30, 2012 @12:56AM (#4310981)

Correct. Not sure where my math went bad.

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