Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More likely salvaged as part of a permanent moon base.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This was a plot point in The Martian which was pretty neat. There was also an episode of Futurama which was also neat

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Brought back*

  No need for this trash on the moon, even if it works.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, if we have boots on the moon, at that point we don’t need probes like these. At that point you just drop a sensor, or whatever experiment you want directly on the surface.

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  • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was looking at it from the perspective of all the failed probes we’ve sent and whether or not the lost costs/missions could be recouped or completed somehow.

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    • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on how long it sits there, the lunar surface has a pretty wide range of temperatures that cause wear, lots of radiation and the regolith is quite abrasive. But realistically by the time something gets there that could put it back it’ll probably not be worth it from anything but a historical standpoint.

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      • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I hadn’t considered the damage from radiation. Thanks for the perspective.

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