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Mars Lander Seismometer Gets Protective Shield (theguardian.com)
Nasa's InSight Mars lander has placed a domed shield over its seismometer, completing that instrument's deployment. From a report: The seismometer will look for evidence of ongoing seismic activity on the red planet to provide data about the deep interior of Mars. This will help scientists determine how the planet formed. The seismometer, called the seismic experiment for interior structure (Seis), is the lander's highest priority science instrument. It is needed to complete about three-quarters of the mission's scientific objectives. The spacecraft touched down on 26 November 2018. On 19 December, a robotic arm picked up the instrument from its storage position and placed it on the martian surface about 1.6 metres away from the spacecraft.
Need to protect it from all the fat Americans that will be landing there, thanks Elon
Can anyone tell me what all the bow-tie looking symbols are that painted all over the seismometer. It looks like they are on the shield, as well.
I hate fat people.
It is the ultimate proof of just how pathetic be-tas really are in how easily they swallow any and all guff from those they give their 'trust' to. Any given be-ta is trained by the specific set of 'authority/hero' figures carefully offered up to the be-ta.
So here we have another 'Mars' story that can safely ignore the elephant in the room. Let's dribble about more instrumentation while ignoring the absolute ban on microscopes. Even tho the original issue about Mars was always "is there life on the Red Planet?".
Recently Australian scientists have perfected methods to examine fossils for atomic traces of evidence- leading to the recent announcement that a key earth fossil showed the remains of ANIMAL life, not plant life. But the same tech has also proven that meterorites known to originate off Earth contain fossilised evidence of microscopic life- as was widely accepted in the late 1960s before Organised Religion pulled a 'big bang' on the data.
Famously the American Mars probe that used chemical tests confirmed life on Mars, but the 'Church' rapidly converted that situation into "seeing is believing- chemical schemical"- the present position of all that speak for NASA. But advances in tech meant we could also "see" on Mars by simply sending microscopes there- a 'difficulty' solved by having outlets like Slashdot 'explain' why microscopes would be a "waste of time". And then the 'distraction' strategy of endless stalling coverage like this story.
How many times have you read of water being discovered on Mars "for the first time". This one has been ongoing for more than tens years now. Not to mention endless rovers with worthless surface videos.
Organised Religion has a power ignored by be-tas told to be both 'soft' religious and yet certain in their belief that the 'Church' is an irrelevant long spent force. Yet even the dumbest be-ta must be capable of pondering why NASA (and the Russians) bend over backward to avoid anything that would confirm to the public that life is actually widespread in our solar system (in a microscopic form at least).
You be-tas wanna tell me you are interested in space, yet have no desire to know about the actually distribution of life in local space? How your 'religious' masters love the mental weakness of their slaves.
We ain't got no shoes, but whiteys on the moon.
No, we ain't got no shoes, but whiteys on the moon.
My health teacher said never probe a strange planet's soil with your seismometer without first putting a domed shield over it.
If they could have come up with an MIC portion "on Mars InSight Craft"?
Then it could have been a recursive acronym... SEISMIC Experiment for Interior Structure on Mars InSight Craft
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
How did hope for normative trips to mars and extended lifespan while defending a people as being victims of circumstance warrant someone taking the time to moderate -1?
Are people so cynical here that the mere mention of hope or absence of insult isn't welcome?