The self-hammering mole will burrow 16 feet (5 meters) down to measure the planet’s internal heat, while the seismometer listens for possible quakes.
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By examining the interior of Mars, scientists hope to understand how our solar system’s rocky planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they turned out so different —
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InSight has no life-detecting capability, however.
I thought it would look for life or its remnants. Guess not.
In-Sight, it’s looking inward. Actually, Wikipedia says the name is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The original name GEMS was too boring perhaps.
I was wondering if it was going to plant small explosive charges for its seismograph, since it has a boring or jackhammer tool. Apparently not. Although it plans to use random atmosphere burst explosions from incoming meteors to do roughly the same thing. I’d guess meteorite ground strikes would be especially nice, but there’s no mention of that. Maybe they are too rare.
I was hoping some soil would be dug up from well (6 feet) below the surface and analysis of such things as 16s fragments would be done by an automated process. That its how Carl Woese discovered Archea.
Mikek on November 26, 2018 at 3:41 pm at 3:41 pm said:
Already some NASA SJW has complained that Mars probes are colonialism.
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Expecting Tars Tarkas to take up the matter any day now.
At least the cgi onion cover they are using to launder the Never a straight answer funding looks better now a days.
Is there a “Flat Mars” theory to explain it? Wheels within wheels and all that.
$850,000,000 to send an unmanned probe that won’t return?
Imagine how much a manned mission might cost! Because it’s 100x that price. Which is why it ain’t gonna happen.
I suppose we might send a one-way mission for less.
They have to go to mars for economic exploitation because you know, the moon is too close and the tech they used to go there they destroyed, and Antarctica’s resources are off limits.
All of that makes perfect sense that they would spend that much money on a Mars probe, instead of laundering it for other more reasonable projects.
The really important thing is that none of the landing control crew were wearing inappropriate shirts.
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Just finished watching it! It’s great to see NASA still doing some good science and exploration.
Already some NASA SJW has complained that Mars probes are colonialism.
I would just like to see a digger go down several feet into the surface to see if there are Archea or similar organisms there.
From the AP.
I thought it would look for life or its remnants. Guess not.
In-Sight, it’s looking inward. Actually, Wikipedia says the name is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The original name GEMS was too boring perhaps.
I was wondering if it was going to plant small explosive charges for its seismograph, since it has a boring or jackhammer tool. Apparently not. Although it plans to use random atmosphere burst explosions from incoming meteors to do roughly the same thing. I’d guess meteorite ground strikes would be especially nice, but there’s no mention of that. Maybe they are too rare.
I was hoping some soil would be dug up from well (6 feet) below the surface and analysis of such things as 16s fragments would be done by an automated process. That its how Carl Woese discovered Archea.
I posted a bit about him and his research a few years ago.
An even older post about microbiology and genetics.
Mikek on November 26, 2018 at 3:41 pm at 3:41 pm said:
Already some NASA SJW has complained that Mars probes are colonialism.
* * *
Expecting Tars Tarkas to take up the matter any day now.
At least the cgi onion cover they are using to launder the Never a straight answer funding looks better now a days.
Is there a “Flat Mars” theory to explain it? Wheels within wheels and all that.
$850,000,000 to send an unmanned probe that won’t return?
Imagine how much a manned mission might cost! Because it’s 100x that price. Which is why it ain’t gonna happen.
I suppose we might send a one-way mission for less.
They have to go to mars for economic exploitation because you know, the moon is too close and the tech they used to go there they destroyed, and Antarctica’s resources are off limits.
All of that makes perfect sense that they would spend that much money on a Mars probe, instead of laundering it for other more reasonable projects.
The really important thing is that none of the landing control crew were wearing inappropriate shirts.