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Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene
I think an airbag landing would be easiest to execute. That way, everything stays together until we land successfully.  |
I dont think so, without any means of slowing the lander down it would hit at 200m/s (at best) - on mars the landers had parachutes, which are ineffective on the moon without an atmosphere!
Also one of the competition guidelines is that the probe must be soft landed - so we are already looking at a more complex design..
To answer your question tutle, the above been the case if we want multiple rovers it would be much to expensive and complicated to scatter them - as cool as that would be!
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