Mars continues to surprise us. While digging this weekend the mole backed about halfway out of the ground. Preliminary assessment points to unexpected soil properties as the main reason. Team looking at next steps. #SaveTheMole #Teamworkpic.twitter.com/UURvU8VTwZ
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Sounds similar to what the first astronauts experienced on the moon, unexpectedly consolidated subsoil beneath the loose surface layer. Amazing what gravity and billions of years of repeated tremors can do to otherwise soft, loose soil
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And all that arid cold wind on mars battering it down even finer
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That sounds like the conditions during the dust bowl, am I correct?
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Them: soils too loose! Me: maybe too dense, instead? Them: soils too loose!! Me: hmkay, just seems too dense. Them: soils too loose! Fix with bucket! Me: idk... Them: bucket works! Hahaha!! Me: *Probe ejects* Them: Me: Them: the soils too "resistive". Me:
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Probably ice
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All jokes aside, I thought it may have hit some metallic substance. Even though it is said there isn't much metal on the planet.
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Dense dust? Is there a tiny chance of clay minerals (former water-bearing strata)? Perhaps could be old transformed lava too.
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Woooow discovery of the century, the dust is loose on top and the dirt is more compact underneath, amaaaazing!
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