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Use a digging rig combined with multiple explosive charges perhaps. Essentially a small shape charge version of solid boosters will work. It would be similar t
by AstralStorm 8y ago
Use a digging rig combined with multiple explosive charges perhaps. Essentially a small shape charge version of solid boosters will work.
It would be similar to preparing a shallow mine.
After the hole is made you get to clean it up to obtain decent samples though.
Whether this would save size or mass is to be seen, a digging drone would preferably be small though very sturdy and dense to survive landslides.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoRight— I now remember some conversation surrounding a similar problem on Titan(?). I think a drilling drone was proposed, but communications posed complicated. That is, communicating to a base rover to route to Earth. I could picture some kind of high-tensile wire on a spool connected to the digging drone. It might not be the highest speed communication, but if it at least proved reliable, that could work, no?