FEEDBACK congratulates NASA on safely landing at least one Mars rover. This despite the fears reader Mike Mellor had, prompted by an interview with Jim Garvin, lead scientist for Mars exploration at NASA in the Astronomy Now 2004 Yearbook.
There Garvin states: “I had a science group evaluate how we should image planets from their surfaces. They concluded that if you don’t take cameras at least a metre off the ground and ideally higher, you are really going to be severely limited scientifically. You really want to get 5 to 6 feet off the ground to see. That’s been our goal and that’s what we’ve done.”…
