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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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The combination of technologies that made this possible is really mind bending.
Without a human ever setting foot on Mars, we can identify and solve the physics of flight in a new atmosphere on the first try.
The idea of a drone that can swim below the ice in the oceans of Europa doesn't seem that far fetched any more.
Except that radio communications below water don't propagate very well.
Well, just used a wired connection then
"Leave a little slack in the line to account for the different orbital periods. Yeah, about 300,000,000 miles ahould do it..."
I had a really long Lan cable that let us play in different rooms. It's buried in a closet, but if nasa really needs it I could dig that out