Spirit Rover stuck in the muck 2F294872506EP1214L0M4

[SVBarnard]

Hey if you on mars and had no helmets on would you be able to hear someone talk to you? Now i know that sound needs a medium to travel through and i know the mars does have an atmosphere although very thin compared to ours. So can you hear anything if you were there? Why doesn't NASA just install a regular full color camera that also records sound? It cant possibly be too much of a technological feat to put a full color camcorder on a rover that also records sound. Im sure everyone would like it

[chaz03]

that stuff looks like some fineee silt... tuff sttuff to get stuck in kinda like it has a crust on top then underneath is just powdery sand. I would say use some kind of object to either create a grip surface like a piece off the rover or something

[shineinnovations]

Good question. It has instrument loaded arm that may work at an expense of one or more instruments. Even though it weighs 0.40 percent of what it does on earth, I don't think the arm is that strong to pushed it up enough even in one place. Even if they do the rover will fall back into the hole. I suppose as a last resort they could move the rover when the arm is engaged, like if moving a car while the jack is still up it may give them enough clearence from the sand trap to move out of there.

[couerl]

Can't they use the robotic arm to push it out of the sand trap?

[danzi13]

Oh no, the poor little fella, its been going for over 5 years, it cant give up now! Cummon little guy, last a little while more!