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Re:Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was ... by echoangle on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:33PM (#43369130)
> Dropping the last 4 metres isn't a sign of having a ruggedized, over-speced "takes a lickin' and keeps on kicking' approach". In lunar gravity, you could drop a raw egg from that height and not perturb the chick inside.

Just for maximum pedantry:

Falling 4 m on the moon is like falling 66 cm or about 2 feet on earth. I don’t know about your eggs but the ones I know wouldn’t survive that.

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