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Re: Hypography X Prize Entry
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Originally Posted by Turtle
OK I'll help.  2 kilos eh? i have one idea already to keep weight down and still get a self portrait.  Rather than try to extend the camera, we just set a mirror down, drive away, and turn to take the pic. 
wow...what a daunting task.  T-minus 5 years and counting ‽  |
Welcome aboard, Turtle! I had another thought and that was to actually land multiple rovers. If you are sending to the moon, you might as well have some redundancy. Imagine having half a dozen tiny rovers that are clients to the lander. It has solar cells and is capable of recharging the little buggers. Maybe even doing part swaps and repairs. They dock until charged, then go and execute a mission and return. And they would be like tiny RC cars. Very simple. All the computing power would be on the lander itself, like a mother ship.
Bill
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