Re: The Mars Rover & random walk

[Sonnet Nguyen <sonnet@blue.ifpan.edu.pl>]

Hi,
The spectacular success of NASA have been done in the US Independent Day.
They have really good plan of Marketing and it is good example for other
scientific institutes.
I invite all of you to see few last images of Mars from Pathfinder
Mission.    
SN

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Tuan V Nguyen wrote:
>         I am curious on on the Mars Rover, which according to 
> the news, can travel some quarter mile from its base. Any of 
> you know what its strategy will be when the radio link loses 
> contact?  A safe option is to backtrack, but that could get 
> it into a repetitive loop.  A continuous update of its 
> position relative to the base would permit it to try another 
> route back, but requires on-board "intelligence" to go round 
> rocks etc.