Comments on: NASA/ESA revise plan to recover Perseverance core samples from Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-esa-revise-plan-to-recover-perseverance-core-samples-from-mars/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:19:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: markedup2 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-esa-revise-plan-to-recover-perseverance-core-samples-from-mars/#comment-1344087 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:19:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86888#comment-1344087 This seems a bit insane to me. They didn’t have this planned out before they started planning the gathering of samples? “How are we going to get them back?” “Don’t worry about it; we’ll figure it out, later.” doesn’t seem like a very professional conversation.

2030 is both a long way away and very close. If it’s going to be on Mars in 2030, it will launch in 2028/9, which means the robot arm and helicopters need to be built by early 2027, so they can be tested and refined in 2027/28. “Early 2027” is less than five years away. Are these things even designed? Just slapping a robot arm and wheels onto the Ingenuity design seems a bit risky.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-esa-revise-plan-to-recover-perseverance-core-samples-from-mars/#comment-1344082 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:26:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86888#comment-1344082 Reminds me of when I was a kid I attended a presentation by a brand-new astronaut of the anticipated risks of the upcoming Apollo program. At the time the Surveyor program, designed to test the lunar surface for the humans to follow, was woefully behind schedule. This wise guy said the biggest danger he saw for the first lunar landing crews was being hit by a descending Surveyor lander! His boss, who was also there, was not amused.
True story, but I cannot actually recall the guy’s name!

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-esa-revise-plan-to-recover-perseverance-core-samples-from-mars/#comment-1344081 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:15:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86888#comment-1344081 Why not just ask Elon to put them in his return baggage? Faster and cheaper.

]]> By: Matt in AZ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-esa-revise-plan-to-recover-perseverance-core-samples-from-mars/#comment-1344079 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:19:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86888#comment-1344079 The rate things are going, I expect the samples will be someday be shown in a museum… on Mars, having never left the planet.

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