<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Yea, the metric - English units disaster. Why metric units should always be used unless you are buying beer 😜</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a28632/the-dumb-mistake-that-doomed-a-mars-probe-in-1999/">https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a28632/the-dumb-mistake-that-doomed-a-mars-probe-in-1999/</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 4:06 PM Ted Kochanski <<a href="mailto:tedpkphd@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tedpkphd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>Remember -- Mars has a tendency of inducing conversion errors </div><div>Google for yourself how many of these</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:59 PM George Gamota <<a href="mailto:ggamota@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ggamota@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">You guys are right. Need stronger glasses :-) <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 5, 2023, at 2:51 PM, Dick Miller <<a href="mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">TheMillers@millermicro.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<font face="DejaVu Serif">George, it will take more than a century
for that rover to travel that distance. That is, if the likelihood
of mechanical breakdown - or a Martian monster - doesn't come
first.<br>
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It has traveled about 1.2 miles so far. In the article you cited,
those were American decimal points, not European ones.<br>
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<div>On 7/5/23 14:15, Donald Cooke wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">That's a long way. Wikipedia has another opinion,
Meters, not Kilometers:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">I just
saw that the Chinese rover on Mars traveled over 1,
100 miles in one year. Seems like they figured out a
way to travel autonomously. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Any
thoughts?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">George</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,21,21);background:rgb(237,237,237)">The
Zhurong rover has operated on the surface of Mars
for over a year since it deployed on May 22nd, 2021.
Before the rover suspended operations on May 20,
2022, due to the onset of winter and the approach of
seasonal sandstorms, Zhurong managed to traverse a
total distance of 1.921 km (1.194 mi).</span><span style="font-size:18pt"></span></p>
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