Comments on: InSight has successfully landed https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/ Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061764 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:07:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061764 Lee–
this is informative
What will InSight do on Mars?
https://youtu.be/csV0BCWZ0oA
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]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061762 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:10:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061762 Lee–
Ditto with what Mike Borden relates– it’s not so much a drill as it is a miniature battering-ram device.
(I believe it’s a temperature probe, cuz’ they want the temperature gradient data below the surface.)

Who can tell me how far into the Moon the astronaut’s managed to pound a temperature probe? (I’ve variously heard 3-13 feet.)

]]> By: Paul Goodley https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061754 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:06:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061754 GREAT FOR THE SCIENTIST WHO DESIGNED AND WORKED ON THIS SPACECRAFT.

]]> By: D Ray https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061750 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:19:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061750 Think of the planetary missions NASA could do using a fraction of the SLS boondoggle billions

]]> By: Mike Borden https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061749 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:54:09 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061749 Lee- from my understanding it isnt a drill so to speak, but a coiling spring loaded hammering mechanism that will bore fractions of a millimeter at a time. Over the course of tens of thousands of “hammers” it should reach a depth of about 16 feet. Ill bet it could go even deeper but is restricted by the length of the cable it is attatched to.

]]> By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061737 Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:10:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061737 Congratulations NASA!!! Job well done!
However I am going to express my feelings again regarding a probe which will “bore” 16 feet into the volcanic Martin surface…. Yet we have a drill on the curiosity rover that can’t drill half an inch into hard sandstone due to technical problems….
I feel there is lack of cross pollination here, anything that can drill itself 16 feet into sandstone could surely do the same on an Europa/ Enceladus/ Titan mission, and could perhaps use the same tech to examine something more exciting than temperature varients

]]> By: Gary M. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-has-successfully-landed/#comment-1061734 Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:06:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54989#comment-1061734 Whew!

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