Why Does a 90-Day Mars Rover Mission Keep Going for Five Years?

By: Al
Published: January 6th, 2009

I’ve been thinking about the same things: how much of it, in addition to sheer technical brilliance, is setting official expectations very carefully and playing funding games?

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