actually its more the dust on the solar panels that the engineers fear.
it was said in an interview that such dust collects itself on the immobile beagle and thus leads to less to no sunlight reaching the solar cells anymore..
though this doesnt apply to the US probes its certainly a big - for the british one.
Im also much into the idea that one might bring the safe parts of a nuclear cell into orbit, assemble it there and then build it into a satellite, because MY only fear is that something might go wrong with the start. Imagine a rocket exploding with some pounds of plutonium or uran inside.. (read dirty nuclear bomb)..
Summed up i think that at the time assembly of probes is shifted to earth orbit or moon theres a big probability of those probes being fitted out with more "dangerous" technology like nuclear cells and some experimental things.
The robots of Spirit and Opportunity (The 2nd Mars expedition of NASA on the way to Mars) are only capable of moving 40m a Mars-day (24.6 hours earth time)
according to NASA they shall be kept operational for at least 90 days.. thus minus the first 10 days without planned movement gives them a radius of about 3,2 km...
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actually its more the dust on the solar panels that the engineers fear.
..
.. (read dirty nuclear bomb) ..
it was said in an interview that such dust collects itself on the immobile beagle and thus leads to less to no sunlight reaching the solar cells anymore
though this doesnt apply to the US probes its certainly a big - for the british one.
Im also much into the idea that one might bring the safe parts of a nuclear cell into orbit, assemble it there and then build it into a satellite, because MY only fear is that something might go wrong with the start. Imagine a rocket exploding with some pounds of plutonium or uran inside
Summed up i think that at the time assembly of probes is shifted to earth orbit or moon theres a big probability of those probes being fitted out with more "dangerous" technology like nuclear cells and some experimental things.
desto
The robots of Spirit and Opportunity (The 2nd Mars expedition of NASA on the way to Mars) are only capable of moving 40m a Mars-day (24.6 hours earth time)
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;)
according to NASA they shall be kept operational for at least 90 days
thus minus the first 10 days without planned movement gives them a radius of about
3,2 km
no chance buddy
DUDE !!! i wouldnt dare to step into that thing .. look at the OS .. its WINDOOZE !!!
regards,
dth