Reply to post: Re: Which in the end will provide more data?

If you're feeling down, know that we've just buried a heat sensor in an alien planet. If NASA can get through Mars soil, we can get through 2020

Paul Kinsler

Re: Which in the end will provide more data?

Presumably "more" isn't really the most useful metric; and something like "most interesting" or "most useful" would be preferable. Which is not to say that either remote or in-person is better, just that (as an extreme "straw man" example) terabytes of high resolution images and measurements of a single randomly chosen rock might give you the most data, but not really be what is wanted.

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