Explanation:
What's a good recipe for preparing Martian soil?
Start by filling your robot's scoop a bit less than half way.
Next, dump your Martian soil into one of your
TEGA
ovens, being sure to
watch out for clumping.
Then, slowly increase the temperature to over 1000 degrees
Celsius over several days.
Keep checking to see when your soil becomes
vaporized.
Finally, your Martian soil is not ready for eating, but rather
sniffing
The above technique is being used by the
Phoenix Lander that
arrived on Mars
three weeks ago.
Data from the first batch of baked soil should be available in a few days.
Pictured above, a circular array of the Phoenix Lander's
solar panels
are visible on the left, while a scoop partly filled with Martian soil is visible on the right.
The robotic Phoenix Lander
will spend much of the next three months digging, scooping, baking, sniffing, zapping, dissolving, and magnifying bits of Mars to help neighboring
Earthlings learn more about the
hydrologic and biologic possibilities of the
sometimes mysterious red planet.
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normali spielplatz-bagger mit chiesplatz gits jo scho (lang)... und wenn mer das ganze chli mit hi-tech ufmotzt.. i prophezeie mol, i es paar johr gits sowas wod chasch remote sand umebaggere uf eme planet :)
und wemmer sichs überleit, es isch zwor scho behinderet, aber nöd viel meh behinderet wie dass es jetzt scho spielplatz-bagger git....
wenns rendiert, wieso nöd. denn findi da absolut i.o., wölls de ganze branche meh umsatz generiert, und schlussendlich au die chli sinnvollere sache devo profitiered.
