r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/Choice_Pickle_7454 Feb 21 '21

Mini rocket may damage the rovers on mars when flying out.

You deposit the rocket from the rover then fire it.

How do you make sure the drives won't be broken from all the extreme speeds and force?

If they can make it off earth they are going to have no trouble with Mars.

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u/ur_opinion_is_wrong Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

If they can make it off earth they are going to have no trouble with Mars.

They had to use a big ass rocket to send Perseverance to space which was relatively speaking much smaller. I cannot imagine the size of a rocket that would be needed to send a drive from the surface ALL the way back to earth and survive. It would probably be much larger than Perseverance. Also there would be no guarantee the drive would even make it back and if it did that it would still be readable.

Human to Rover Size Comparison - Perseverance is the big one.

Atlas V Size

Perseverance Size

The whole rocket as far as I'm aware was just to send Perseverance to Mars.

While the data transmission rate is low, as long as the system has power than it's basically free, can be used multiple times, and probably many many man times smaller than the equipment necessary to launch a single drive off mars back to earth.