Excellent!

I had a somewhat pessimistic post below, reminding people we were only going to cover short distances. After making it it ocurred to me that maybe that 1600' estimate was strongly driven by the expectation of lots of obstacle avoidance and slow route planning back on Earth.

If Spirit were travelling down a paved highway, I assume energy would be the limiting factor (i.e, that driving at full speed uses more power than the solar cells generate, or at least enough that no margin is left for anything else). Anyone have any insight into how much distance could be covered daily if it were just driving in a straight line on easy terrain?

Btw, thanks to Q and others who have posted tidbits like this from the briefings. I've been unable to watch them live the last two days and the news stories certainly don't include much detail.