09-November-2007, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 01101001
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Planetary Society Weblog: News Flash: ChemCam and MARDI have been saved!
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Late today, I got the announcement that two of these instruments have received a reprieve, MARDI and ChemCam. The best news is about ChemCam, without which the rover would have had almost no ability to figure out, from a distance, which rocks were most worth investigating up close.
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I have mixed feelings about this. It is fabulous, fabulous, an enormous relief, that MSL will not be blind to the chemical composition of rocks spotted from a distance. It will save a lot of wasted driving to spots that turn out to be similar to rocks investigated before; and will also allow the rover to spot unusual things it might otherwise have missed. [...] At the same time, I feel like I'm supposed to be feeling super-grateful despite the fact that science capability has still, in the end, been descoped; there's still three more instruments that were affected.
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