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Drilling 2 meters down for samples on the moon is pretty impressive. I believe there are also some samples lying around Mars ready for pickup and return in a fe
by lyu07282 2y ago
Drilling 2 meters down for samples on the moon is pretty impressive. I believe there are also some samples lying around Mars ready for pickup and return in a few years. I'm far less excited and more worried about Artemis, it's so clearly the wrong approach smh
- rcarmo 2y agoYep. And bringing back samples of different cheese^Wregolith might provide additional insights as to its formation (although 2 meters might not seem very impressive, it might span millions of years of undisturbed “soil” deposition)
- gravescale 2y agoI dunno, 2 metres sounds pretty impressive to me. That's just over 1 MJ (Michael Jordan). Remotely, in vacuum, in stony electrostically evil regolith which might also be big solid bits and no takebacksies on the drilling site. Apollo 17 was three metres deep, but they had a meatbag-in-a-bag to feed in drill segments and keep things under control. Which has its own tricky technicalities to keep the meat fresh and moving, to be sure. But it does simplify the other mechanisms.