How many inches would a Rover travel in 3 days?
The rover can travel up to about 100m in one day. So in 3 days, if all it did was drive as fast as it could, it would go about 300m (~3 football fields). But it probably won’t move that fast on Mars. We’ll make it stop to look at rock outcrops, take images and spectra of the sky, dig in the soil, basically do the science we’ve sent it there to do. While its doing this, it can’t drive. Plus, since the driving uses so much power, we almost don’t have power to run the science experiments when the rover has been driven that day. Expert: Dr.
