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leaf blower on mars probes
How come we dont have a blower attachement on the mars probes. As
evidenced by the recent lander, the engines blew away the surface dirt unveiling presumably-ice. They should have a blower fan on the end of the arm to manually blow away dirt. Is it too much of a power draw? |
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leaf blower on mars probes
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How come we dont have a blower attachement on the mars probes. As evidenced by the recent lander, the engines blew away the surface dirt unveiling presumably-ice. They should have a blower fan on the end of the arm to manually blow away dirt. Is it too much of a power draw? A rocket engine is a different beast than a fan trying to move what's essentially a dirty vacuum. In that thin atmosphere you'd need quite a powerful blower to blow away soil better than you can scrape it away with the arm... Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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