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Re: I'm gonna drive there and get them - Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship
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lugnet.build.contests
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:32:58 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Nikolai Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.build.contests, Jean-Pascal Rignault wrote:
> > A contest! Nice! Just one question : who are Biff and Sandy? Can you give us any
> > pics if they are some special mini fig or else?
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> > Thanks!
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> > JP.
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> Biff and Sandy are two mini-figs that represent the Mars rovers.
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> nik
Good answer, Nik!
People who explore the NASA web site a bit will, I believe, find that what
actually went on the rovers are not the figs themselves, but images of them
printed on a DVD.
See here, for instance:
http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2003/astrobot_launched.html
and here http://redrovergoestomars.org/astrobots/
The extremes of heat and vacuum and sand and etc. mean that ABS wouldn't last
long. The "bricks" that hold the DVDs (with the Biff/Sandy images printed on
them)onto the landers are actually made of metal as well.
(Bram would be proud)
Here's a closeup of the assembly:
http://redrovergoestomars.org/images/dvd_assembly_prphoto_500x422.jpg
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