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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6850803" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Well, that would entirely depend on the capabilities of the probe that finds it. Each probe and rover is built with very specific capabilities that it can't really change. </p><p></p><p>For example - most of them are solar powered. Your building is in a cave, in the shade? Well, then, Houston, we have a problem, because the rover won't have much power in the cave. And, it's radio won't be built to get signals into and out of the cave. This is also a problem. At best, you're sending your rover into the cave to get some data, and it has to pop back out to radio home and power up, and then back in again. This is silly.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if there is an actual procedure NASA has defined for this. But, for argument's sake - the building has been there for what, thousands of years? Longer than that, and it is difficult to gather how it wouldn't be covered in sand, but still, there's no rush *this minute*. We can take our time to build a new probe or set of probes built with this investigation in mind. Use the prob eon the scene to gather what data you can, and design a new one to suit the new investigation. Take a couple years, do it right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6850803, member: 177"] Well, that would entirely depend on the capabilities of the probe that finds it. Each probe and rover is built with very specific capabilities that it can't really change. For example - most of them are solar powered. Your building is in a cave, in the shade? Well, then, Houston, we have a problem, because the rover won't have much power in the cave. And, it's radio won't be built to get signals into and out of the cave. This is also a problem. At best, you're sending your rover into the cave to get some data, and it has to pop back out to radio home and power up, and then back in again. This is silly. I don't know if there is an actual procedure NASA has defined for this. But, for argument's sake - the building has been there for what, thousands of years? Longer than that, and it is difficult to gather how it wouldn't be covered in sand, but still, there's no rush *this minute*. We can take our time to build a new probe or set of probes built with this investigation in mind. Use the prob eon the scene to gather what data you can, and design a new one to suit the new investigation. Take a couple years, do it right. [/QUOTE]
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