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But 100mg is less than a single dust speckle.. big box for a small flake
by miohtama 6y ago
But 100mg is less than a single dust speckle.. big box for a small flake
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI think your math is a bit off. 1 gram of water = 1 cubic cm. Rock is more dense, maybe by a factor of 5. So 100 mg of rock would be 2% of a cc. That's tiny - much smaller than I expected for the mission - but it's still a lot bigger than a dust speck.
- Bjartr 6y agoTurns out getting material from a celestial object back to terra-firma unaltered is pretty damn hard. Fortunately, modern scientific instruments can do a lot with a little.