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i am sure they have designed a good system, just need to incorporate it into something that is feasible to use while maintaining a minimalistic approach for weight and volume. i know sometimes the best ideas end up coming from "left field" so who knows what better solution can be derived.
heck maybe a "balloon" style landing would work better than legs.
heck maybe a "balloon" style landing would work better than legs.
Ukerric
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Although the wind can be extremely fast, the atmosphere itself is 1% of Earth's. A "tempest" on Mars is basically a strong breeze here. Enough to blow dust around (since zero humidity), but not much more.
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Edaw
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Cybsled
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BrutulTM has a good idea. I wonder if you could slag a round section with a nuke or laser. Would it melt and cool flat?
Nuke no. There’s no way you could detonate it close enough to literally smooth a surface. It would also irradiate the soil. Lasers would be too high an energy cost
Your best bet would be sending robots that can prep a landing site
Tholan
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Now I wonder how's static electricity on mars, thx. No humidity and small dust particles, things must be getting wild
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Neat.
"When Martian storms become particularly strong, the friction between dust grains causes them to become electrified, transferring positive and negative charges through static electricity. According to research led by planetary scientist Alian Wang at Washington University in St. Louis, this electrical force could be the major driving force of the Martian chlorine cycle. Based on their analysis, Wang and her colleagues believe this process could account for the abundant perchlorates and other chemicals that robotic missions have detected in Martian soil."
Dust Storms on Mars Generate Static Electricity. What Does This Do to Its Surface?
A new study shows how electrical discharges caused by Martian storms drives some major chemical processes on the planet's surface.
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Borzak
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Ever since mid-November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending messages back to Earth that don't make any sense. It's as if the aging spacecraft has suffered some kind of stroke that's interfering with its ability to speak.
Ever since mid-November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending messages back to Earth that don't make any sense. It's as if the aging spacecraft has suffered some kind of stroke that's interfering with its ability to speak.
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Oldbased
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Sounds like a power source to me. Fields of conductive rods hooked into my martian Tesla.Neat.
"When Martian storms become particularly strong, the friction between dust grains causes them to become electrified, transferring positive and negative charges through static electricity. According to research led by planetary scientist Alian Wang at Washington University in St. Louis, this electrical force could be the major driving force of the Martian chlorine cycle. Based on their analysis, Wang and her colleagues believe this process could account for the abundant perchlorates and other chemicals that robotic missions have detected in Martian soil."
Dust Storms on Mars Generate Static Electricity. What Does This Do to Its Surface?
A new study shows how electrical discharges caused by Martian storms drives some major chemical processes on the planet's surface.
As for the moon as I said, the first starships will land horizontal packed with supplies and materials. Then a lander will land people who will use those to construct a solid pad, either in premade sections or by way of space concrete and once empty those starships will be repurposed into habs and SpaceX plans to launch so many nonstop like they do Falcon9s it will be both rapid and easily account for losses.
Don't think anyone else can pull that off. It's taking NASA 20 years and 6969Billion dollars to just do a flyby.
Speaking of which next starship launch is very very very soon. 7-8 days soon
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Oldbased
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Watched a YT video last night about leaks from the NASA/SpaceX lunar program.
Most thought little progress had been made because they have been so tight lipped but people have snuck out photos and videos of training here and there and the lander module is basically the upper half of a starship as it is now including one which is nothing but interior design but no photos have managed to be leaked from inside. NASA also said SpaceX has completed 30 milestones of the funding/program.
While Biden and his team hate Elon, they can no longer weaponize the FAA and wildlife groups against him or SpaceX as the Air Force and NASA are putting pressure on the administration to back off and let the cook and cook they shall. Flight 2 only had 17 corrections from FAA which were easily done.
Also Starship and the booster are starting to look more like a spacecraft instead of a rocker grain silo.
Most thought little progress had been made because they have been so tight lipped but people have snuck out photos and videos of training here and there and the lander module is basically the upper half of a starship as it is now including one which is nothing but interior design but no photos have managed to be leaked from inside. NASA also said SpaceX has completed 30 milestones of the funding/program.
While Biden and his team hate Elon, they can no longer weaponize the FAA and wildlife groups against him or SpaceX as the Air Force and NASA are putting pressure on the administration to back off and let the cook and cook they shall. Flight 2 only had 17 corrections from FAA which were easily done.
Also Starship and the booster are starting to look more like a spacecraft instead of a rocker grain silo.
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The PEZ Dispenser: Starship's Payload Deployment System
Starship is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle, and if all goes well, it will eventually carry some pretty large payloads. However, there are numerous hurdles to overcome with a reusable vehicle of thi...
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