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Comments on MoonLITE 'Mole' Penetrators For Lunar Exploration
Intriguing proposed mission between cooperating space agencies would deliver penetrating mole-like instrument packages into the lunar crust. (Read
the complete story)
| "SF connection?" (BobD 2/20/2008 6:54:56 AM) |
| "I remember reading of something similar in Rocheworld, by Robert Forward. Bunker-buster-like devices dropped on a rocky world by an early interstellar expedition." (Flaminio 2/20/2008 8:58:44 AM) |
| "Two missions to Mars carried exactly this type of penetrator probes.
Unfortunately both NASA's polar lander and the Russian Mars M1 (aka Mars 96) were utter failures.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/marander.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/marsm1.htm
" (Yossi Preminger 2/20/2008 2:32:01 PM) |
| "Schematics of the Mars polar lander penetrators can be found at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mplds2hq.pdf" (Yossi Preminger 2/20/2008 2:49:24 PM) |
| "BobD - sorry, I've added it.
Yossi - thanks for the earlier references. Here's the description of the penetrators on the Mars Polar Lander:
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