Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight
by dylan604 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:53PM
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But then we'd have no helicopter on mars right now
Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight
by 0_____0 on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:15PM
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I reckon it might actually be cheaper to put together a smallsat with 1000 processors on it and stick it in low earth orbit. Building a chamber and finding all the radiation sources you'd need to accomplish such a thing surely is no small task...
Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight
by anoncake on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:21PM
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Maybe we don't know the composition of the radiation on Mars precisely enough?
Re:Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight
by dylan604 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:02PM
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i've never thought about, but i don't recall any of the other probes/rovers reporting back on things like UVA/UVB or anything else like that. However, with no atmosphere or the Martian equivalent to Van Allen belts, wouldn't it be safe to assume that whatever streams out of the sun is reaching the surface? it would be a matter of intensity on the surface vs what type would it not?
Surely a better test would be to get 1000 mobile phone processors and put them in a radiation chamber on earth and see how many fail? It would be far cheaper and be better science.