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Given the lack of weather and other disturbances, I wonder if it would work to spray a conductive layer directly onto the crater's interior surface, maybe using
by femto 5y ago
Given the lack of weather and other disturbances, I wonder if it would work to spray a conductive layer directly onto the crater's interior surface, maybe using a hovering rocket with the conductive material injected into its exhaust? I gather craters are hyperbolic [1, 2], but maybe the middle portion is close enough to a parabola to focus waves onto a receiver?
It might not be very environmentally friendly though, as it would be difficult to remove in the future.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29755255/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29755255/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17994980/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17994980/
- iSnow 5y agoIf I read this right, they want to do the whole wiremesh/DuAxi robot dance because the craters are not parabolic enough. They use them because they allow to build a parabola without ferrying thousands of tons of material to the moon but they are not suitable on their own.
- SiempreViernes 5y agoI expect craters are not very smooth surfaces at cm-scales, and just spraying something on top will not make it smooth on it's own.