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Which is 120 mm/sec -- about 4.75 inches, as parent noted.


Actually, 30 m/hour is 8 mm/sec. But that's a bad choice of units, because seconds is not a good mission time scale.

The point is that, within a couple of hours, you can drive beyond the contamination radius. And, over the span of the mission, you most certainly will.


Correct. Not sure where my math went bad.




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