The rovers probably have something better to be doing, but I think it would be awesome if they found one of the old Russian mars, landers or the Viking, or Sojourner.
2007-01-24 14:10:31 · 6 answers · asked by vincentdeckard13 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Even though Mars is smaller than earth, its still a big place. It has almost as much land surface as the earth has.
The rovers landed hundreds/thousands of miles from the previous landers and probes, so its unlikely they would find them. Plus they aren't really looking for them anyway.
2007-01-24 14:15:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rovers are along way away from the other landing sites. You don't want to spend upteen zillion dollars to send a probe to Mars to look at the one place you've allready seen after all.
That being said, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in December 2006 got a Photo of the Viking 1 lander. It was taken from Orbit, so it's not like it was a close up or anything, but they got a photo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6211870.stm
The Russians incidentally had very bad luck with their Mars probes. I don't recall any of them working as advertised.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_mars.html
They did however do better than anybody else on Venus.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_venus.html
2007-01-24 17:40:45 · answer #2 · answered by Larry R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two rovers have only driven a little over 4 and 6 miles respectively in the whole time since they landed on Mars, but they landed hundreds of miles from any other probe.
2007-01-24 14:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They haven't. The rovers are moving but are not moving fast enough to cover vast land or get close to where the old probes landed. The two rovers distance travelled combine since they landed on Mars is just around 25 miles.
2007-01-24 14:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by Frankie T. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The interest has no ability of returning. the only rockets it had have been used up for the period of landing, have been jettisoned, and crashed on Mars. NO measures have been taken to guard it from the severe warmth of re-get right of entry to, because of the fact that there have been under no circumstances any plans to deliver it returned. The interest isn't in user-friendly terms a normal "gatherer". that's a cellular LABORATORY, and it additionally includes all of the equipment mandatory to accomplish the experiments the scientists want carried out. It can not do ALL experiments, yet in user-friendly terms the only scientists concept to be the main extreme. the outcomes from the experiments are recorded by skill of computers, and are sent returned to earth utilising radio indicators -- basically like the image are. as quickly as the experiments are carried out interest's pastime is done. Scientists will discover some greater issues for its cameras to envision, yet while its batteries die or the computing gadget fails, it will be left to rot interior the Martian environment.
2016-11-27 00:20:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree it would be awesome though.
2007-01-24 14:43:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋