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Originally Posted by MaDeR
No mission involved mobile rover on surface for now. Two missions involved stationary lander - one succes, one crater. I would do more stationary landers (mission a la Phoenix would be ideal) before trying mobile rover. This can be very costly new Martian crater with lack of that kind of experience..
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Irrelevant. ESA have demonstrated that they can run highly complex missions successfully. It is no more difficult landing a rover on Mars than a stationary lander. So if they decide to do a rover mission, that is there decision.
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Originally Posted by MaDeR
BTW... I know about Rosetta, but:
1. Mission is on way, not deployed. Main mission even not begin!
2. Their rover will be deployed in completely different enviroment and is not certain that this would work anyway - see Hayabusa.
In other words, this mission don't count for now.
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OK, that just leaves Venus Express, Mars Express, Giotto, Smart-1, Helios 1 & 2 , Ulysseys, and Cassinni-Huygens as just some of th successful deep space missions that ESA and its member countries have successfully achieved. This diverse suite of missions and the depth of aerospace technology that ESA can call out is every reason to think they can achieve a rover mission on Mars. Against this we just have your prejudice that they cannot.
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Originally Posted by MaDeR
In other words, if you had avaliable many stationary landers a la Phoenix for price of two, you will throw these away? Strange. Oh, well.
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This makes no sense at all. What are you trying to say?
Jon