Future NASA Mothership Will Disperse Data Collecting Microchips
Suppose you're a planetary scientist. You operate an unmanned spacecraft, surveying a distant moon in our solar system. Years of funding, engineering work, and long-distance space travel have all come together and at last this machine — to which you have devoted so much of your life — is in place. And it's just made an incredible discovery.
Maybe it's a new kind of crater. Or an odd, unexpected mineral. Or the holy grail: Liquid water.
It's thrilling news — years of your career, vindicated! **w you have to wait. And lobby. And hope for the funding to come through. And wait for the next craft to get there. Read more...