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> From: Pedro Drummond <pdrummond@IBM.NET>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: MARS Rover - Any PICs ?
> Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 12:30 AM
>
> >At 10:36 AM 7/9/97 EST5EDT, you wrote:
> >>Slightly off topic, but why doesn't NASA include a
> >>microphone in these mars landers?  Sound digitization is certainly
> >>cheaper and easier to do than video, and it would be interesting to
> >>hear what was going on there!  (Wind, noises from miles off beyond
> >>visual range, but within hearing distance)
>
> Interesting point. Why didn't they ?
>
> Also, I've read in a magazine that the rover can return to the upright
> position if it happens to turn upside down. In another one, they said the
> opposite, that it would be lost if this happened. What is the truth,
after all ?
>
> Pedro Drummond

Redro the atmosphere on mars is extremely thin...it probably attenuates
sound
to unusable levels....gj