TEGA - Round 2 |
TEGA - Round 2 |
Jul 19 2008, 12:04 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I challenge you not to look at this and make a ping/spring/boing happy sort of a noise.
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Oct 19 2008, 02:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 30-December 05 Member No.: 628 |
I am still trying to figure out what kind of ex-ante design would have been sufficiently robust, in line with otherdoug's contention that it should have been able to deal with a wider range of unknown sample properties. MSL will be able to zap rocks with its laser and sniff the vapors, eliminating all those transportation and deposition headaches. This could probably have worked with ice too, but the power needs may exceed what solar alone can supply. Or the deliveries could have initially been made into to a "coffee grinder" to pulverize and homogenize the contents before passing them on to the ovens. Then how to clean up the grinder to avoid cross-contamination of samples? Would one of these solutions, or the many other alternatives that have been proposed stand out enough to have been an obvious choice prior to the mission? I doubt it. But use of the word "failure" just refers to the fact that at the end of the mission we probably won't have answers about the isotopic composition of the water ice and what is dissolved in it. It does not require pinning blame on anyone, and should not be taken that way, (OK - except for the case of the doors not opening properly). Most aspects of the mission have been hugely successful.
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