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focus503 t1_jeb9emg wrote

I was surprised to see how big the mars rovers were, seriously thought they were like the size of an average office printer.

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sifuyee t1_jebrmxy wrote

The first ones were. There are a number of scientists that argue more cheap small rovers would yield more science than large expensive singular rovers, but so far they're not winning the NASA awards for contracts. I think we'll start to see more diversity of size in the future awards, given how successful small satellites are becoming.

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