Originally Posted by
tdracer
....have self-leveling systems - seems like it wouldn't be all that hard to add that to a lunar lander..
TD, methinks the only 'self leveling' option is ONLY once it's on the ground
I can't see why no one is mentioning this soft dust/ground issue...!
Wasn't it a Russian guy who warned about how fine the dust would be - which turned out to be correct - as the US astronauts mentioned about it on their boots (and everywhere else), when getting back into the module?
Isn't there footage of the Rover, churning up lots of 'soft' debris?
[We have been to the KSC and seen where the Rover was origami packed under the module].
Honestly, I found it hard to believe that a full rover was there (Its potential weight etc), but hey, I'm not a NASA engineer...!
I don't know (well, ok, I'm sure ok
, if this is a huge blindsided dumb public (aka - Tax Payer), image about landing one of Space X's/Nasa rockets as the billions of people have seen from comics and even now as Turin shows, over 50 years ago these type of upright/long rockets landings.
As a last note (the dragon is calling tea, so I'm off), one would expect this Artemis around the moon is going to have some serious surface radar/penetrating shmoozle stuff going on - and who knows - some 2026 gen hi res cameras of the/some lunar landers - just to prove it..?