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Old 15-May-2008, 10:51 PM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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Originally Posted by JustAFriend View Post
Viking 2.0 is not neccesarily a bad thing.

There are LOTS of areas on Mars we haven't touched yet, especially up in the near-polar areas like this where life-compatible conditions (or at least where life may have held out the longest) may be readily detected.

A whole bunch of Viking 2.0's would be a good thing....
A network of small geophysical and meteorological stations with basic imaging and soil properties instruments is long over due.

Jon
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