Digging in |
Digging in |
Apr 25 2006, 03:36 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 289 |
An interesting update at Newscientist.
Seems they are planning on using Spirit's RAT to dig down into the dirt, cm by cm. I wonder how deep they can go? Maybe we'll find out if there is anything frozen/liquid just below the surface. Link |
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Apr 25 2006, 06:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
I realized that this kind of digging would cause more problems to Spirit than the benefit. I am supposing that the RAT has a grinding wheel grinding wheel to remove dust and weathered rock, exposing fresh rock underneath.
During the griding process, it can spatter the sand away and the powder would fall onto the already dirty panel array solar. This will would lead to lower solar incidence to the solar arrays. In spite of the fact, the RAT has performed many times with little consequences of dirty powder on the array solars but the case of grinding on the sandy surface, the thing would be worst, more spattering. I am not sure about this consequences. But, someone who know better about this might jump his toughts. Rodolfo |
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