Re:InSight's Final Selfie
by Hallucinaut on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:10PM
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I mean, the alternative is littering dead rovers, so a little plastic sheet doesn't sound as bad
Arguably at least there's good purpose behind those...
<tin foil hat>And after all, they left the Pyramids and Stonehenge behind here, right???
Might be able to use something like a toner transfer belt/blanket in a laser printer, with brushes and/or electrostatics to clean the belt as it cycles in a loop.
(Not sure I'd want to deploy a system that intentionally litters single use plastics onto pristine planets though. We're already the species who spent way too long tossing old-fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam cheeseburger containers out of 1967 Cadillac Eldorado Convertibles with whale-skin hubcaps getting 1mpg doing 110mph down the freeway...)