I repeat....

Jacob Samorodin — 4/6/2004 7:54:49 PM (archived)

...It makes no sense to waste a few billion Euros to get a few grams of mars dust.

A few grams of Mars dust will tell you nothing....nothing about the age of the bedrock in Meridiani, and very little about it's geochemical compostion.

Read below...

I'm going to give you a choice, Raoul.
Choose (1), or choose (2)!

(1) a few grams of Mars dust returned to Earth.
[Nothing to get exited about.]
(2) Or a one-meter core-sample of Meridiani's bedrock, plus some
hematite spherules, returned to Earth.

I will choose # (2).
Which number would you choose, Raoul?

Jacob

"We choose to go to the moon, and do those OTHER THINGS,
not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
John F. Kennedy

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Does it really make sense to have a robotic Mars Sample Return mission as envisioned by ESA? - Jacob Samorodin - 4/6/2004 6:10:45 PM
- No - send a polarizing microscope and a robot biotome - Psi Phi - 4/7/2004 5:35:17 AM
- No - send a polarizing microscope and a robot biotome - Psi Phi - 4/7/2004 5:35:08 AM
  - that'd be great! - jms - 4/7/2004 11:48:52 PM
- re: Yes - Raoul - 4/6/2004 6:28:00 PM
  - I repeat.... - Jacob Samorodin - 4/6/2004 7:54:49 PM
    - re: Money money money.... - Raoul - 4/6/2004 8:27:47 PM
      - Of course. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/6/2004 9:53:05 PM

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