MSL FAQ - The pool of questions |
MSL FAQ - The pool of questions |
Jun 1 2007, 03:11 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Rob Manning and I swopped emails last night - and we think it might make sense to pool all the questions people have about MSL (and specifically MSL's EDL ) into one thread - and then answer as many as make sense either via a Q'n'A in the style of the previous ones I've done with Steve and Jim - or via Rob's typing fingers.
It'll be a few weeks till we sort this out - but submit-away until then Doug |
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Jul 15 2007, 07:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"...science team would have to be pretty selective..."
Doesn't take much.. imagine pencil-erasor sized grabs of soil or other "fines" and centimeter long pencil-thick minicores of rock. You can do incredibly lots with that.. each would more than everythign brought back from stardust. |
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Jul 16 2007, 02:52 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
.. imagine pencil-erasor sized grabs of soil or other "fines" and centimeter long pencil-thick minicores of rock. Yeah..I like it, I like it! Design such a system for all future rovers, and future human expeditions could conceivably acquire excellent mineralogical profiles for entire regions while minimizing in situ routine sample runs, enabling them to concentrate on interesting things they'd find in real time instead of baseline stuff. I love it when a plan comes together! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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