Comments on: Construction has now begun on NASA’s next Mars lander. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/construction-has-now-begun-on-nasas-next-mars-lander/ Tue, 20 May 2014 16:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Competential https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/construction-has-now-begun-on-nasas-next-mars-lander/#comment-168590 Tue, 20 May 2014 16:50:22 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28590#comment-168590 I’m surprised that the seismometer won’t be burrowed. I thought that was mandatory. But maybe only in active earthly environments.

“The seismometer will sit on the surface, covered up to protect it from the cold and wind, while the heat-flow probe will be hammered in about three to five yards or meters.”
http://www.universetoday.com/112016/nasa-mars-lander-go-for-construction/#more-112016

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