InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022 |
InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022 |
Nov 26 2018, 08:20 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Congratulations to the InSight team on a successful landing! We'll discuss the remainder of the mission here.
-------------------- 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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Mar 12 2020, 09:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
Once that end-cap goes to ground, its probably be too risky to apply pressure with the blade in an edge-on configuration, so the only safe way forward seems to be to drag in soil from the surrounding surface and completely fill the hole, compacting and applying pressure with the scoop in its flat configuration to produce as much friction as possible, then proceed slowly to see if it remains effective or if it collapses more volume and needs more soil repack at intervals. i am absent any other ideas, but they probably have a tiered set of options in the queue for the next few months.
Its so good to see the incredible SEIS results coming back that more than overshadow any angst and drama associated with the HP2 deployment, as problematic as it has turned out, but even so, its incredibly exciting to be able to have a challenge like this, as it presents so many learning opportunities that wculd never have occurred if everything went as expected, even most other types of instrument deployment failures would be more of engineering lessons and couldn't have presented a necessity to solve unknowns about the physics of different martian soils as this particular scenario does, and i have high confidence it will be overcome, eventually... |
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