Another topic that no one seems to consider is driving a 4x4 truck across the surface of Mars, years of experimenting with a robot vehicle when you have 100 years of progress with the motorcar.
So you have a fuel laden Chevy Silverado with air tanks for the fuel/air mixture and you set it on a course to drive a long distance photographing the terrain as it goes, even deploy a drill that is powered by the enging. The result is a quicker mapping of the surface, sampling and a huge coup for a motor manufacturer, the first Car on Mars.
The Opportunity Rover has travelled 40km in 10 years, a Silverado could run 400km in a couple of days.
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