Piping the rovers home

**Barb T** · 16th September 10, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by KiltedKnome

Are you volunteering for the manned Mars mission?

Alas, I am too old. Carolyn, maybe!! She'd go tomorrow, if they asked her.

**macwilkin** · 16th September 10, 01:54 PM

Do I recognize the San Francisco Peaks in the background of one of those shots, Barb?

T.

**SFCRick** · 16th September 10, 01:55 PM

Well done indeed.

**BLHS209** · 16th September 10, 01:56 PM

So, you are the 21st century version of the Pied Piper????

**KiltedKnome** · 16th September 10, 02:01 PM

Steve and I would volunteer, too, even for a one-way mission. Tell Carolyn we are counting on her to carry the torch -- urr, bagpipes -- to Mars!

Originally Posted by Barb T.

Alas, I am too old. Carolyn, maybe!! She'd go tomorrow, if they asked her.

**Barb T** · 16th September 10, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

Do I recognize the San Francisco Peaks in the background of one of those shots, Barb?

T.

Yes, indeedy! The test was run in the San Francisco Volcanic Field from just west of SP Crater to the Black Point Lava Flow. At one point, the rovers had to cross highway 89 (the one that runs from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon and is almost continual traffic). We had to wait about an hour for the State Police to arrive to stop traffic and escort the rovers across the road, and cars just zoomed on by while we were waiting. I guess they thought the rovers were some kind of uninteresting Winnebago (although this kind of new-generation Moon rover, where the astronauts actually live inside the rover and go from place to place, has been nicknamed the "Lunabago"....hee hee)...Anyway - here's a pic of one of those cars that just sped on by.

**KiltedKnome** · 16th September 10, 02:37 PM

I suspect Californians have encountered just about everything under the sun....so nothing fazes them....or slows them down.

**azwildcat96** · 16th September 10, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by KiltedKnome

I suspect Californians have encountered just about everything under the sun....so nothing fazes them....or slows them down.

California???

The San Francisco Peaks are in Arizona!!! Of course we do have our share of crazy Californian drivers here too!

**KiltedKnome** · 16th September 10, 02:41 PM

OK.......I will now go crawl under a hole (on Mars?) with the embarrassment of my poor sense of geography!

But I'll bet the cars were driven by those from California!