Tires on the ground ...

Good stuff, Mark. Thanks. Please don't stop.

More detail on your ideas, comments and objections to mine and others'.


LB

To all. Think about combining bits and peices. Go to a hobby store and wander around for a while. But don't spend all of your time thinking OUTSIDE the box. There are plenty of good ideas inside as well.

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Besides, if you don't know what is inside the box, how can you tell if you really are thinking outside the box?

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by MarkVitrone</i>
<br />I came up with a drawing and then couldn't post it properly<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">The image link you provided is to the C-drive on your own computer. Readers of this MB can't access your hard drive. You must place the image somewhere on the internet. As I recall, others have mentioned services for just that purpose for those who do not have their own web site. -|Tom|-

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by tvanflandern</i>
<br />As I recall, others have mentioned services for just that purpose for those who do not have their own web site. -|Tom|-<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Of the 4 or 5 free image hosting sites I've tried, Photobucket seems to be the only one that understands we don't want any advertising if we're merely posting the img tags, and that we just want to see the image. Very friendly site, also:

photobucket.com/

Filelodge has some benefits in the way they structure their file system, but after I started using it, they started to do a "one time advertisement" that pops up in place of random images every so often:

filelodge.bolt.com/

rd

I missed typing a colon and went back and editted the post and voila. Tom, what types of martian conditions environments are there on earth for testing the rovers? Have you any ideas of the cost to test and whatnot, otherwise affording and building these rovers is cheap, as long as one simulates sensor weight and tallies an energy budget based on existing science packages. I think any concept must start from earth and build to mars, start with launch weight and think about package deployment to the surface. Any thoughts?

mark

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by MarkVitrone</i>
<br />I missed typing a colon and went back and editted the post and voila.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">That might allow you to see the image, but it doesn't allow me to see it. There is no image at that path on <b>my</b> C-drive.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">what types of martian conditions environments are there on earth for testing the rovers?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I don't know what JPL used for testing, but assume such information is available.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Have you any ideas of the cost to test and whatnot<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">No idea. Hardware is not my forte.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I think any concept must start from earth and build to mars, start with launch weight and think about package deployment to the surface. Any thoughts?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Hopefully, the present rovers are gaining knowledge about how to survive the harsh Martian environment. It's the things we don't know about that a simulator can't help with. -|Tom|-

So ya'll can't see the image I posted? How do I get one on there then?

Mark