NASA Can't Do Dunes . . .

Smiley · 06-06-2005, 12:03 PM

Let more air out ya m0m0s

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...M_Exclude=Juno

"It's kind of like we were swimming through it," Erickson said.

{OF}Blong · 06-06-2005, 04:40 PM

cool and very itneresting read smiley

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{OF}Malicious Assault · 06-06-2005, 05:18 PM

Kinda tough to make a service call to let the air out there

{OF}Lonefart · 06-06-2005, 08:25 PM

um is there air there? if theres no atmosphere, what would happen if you had pneumatic tires?

{OF}Flying_Dutchman · 06-06-2005, 09:17 PM

if there's no atmosphere, the pressure surrounding the vehicle is 0 (as opposed to normal surface level atmospheric pressure on earth).

Thus pneumatic tires would swell up and likely burst......

Maybe it has solid tires?

Smiley · 06-07-2005, 07:40 AM

heh - it was a joke!

The rover has solid tires BTW.

LoPo · 06-07-2005, 10:09 AM

lol smiley. It will just sink like a rock them....maybe you should drop a line to nasa and enlighten them with your dunin' knowledge!