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- From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
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- Subject: Erebus and Dante
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:19:51 GMT
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- Steve Jones suggests:
-
- Another reader asked me privately whether the active volcano in
- Antartica, Mt. Erebus, might be tested using the publicized robot
- for the presence of tritium. Erebus volcano is actually a good
- place to look, since very little tritium remains from H-bomb
- testing way down there in the So. Hemisphere, I understand. I do
- not know whether the robot will get samples which could be tested
- for tritium content.
-
- The Dante expedition is all over. It has been judged a technical
- success, but the robot did _not_ make it down into the crater (kinks
- in the fiber-optic tether lead to a loss of control comms). So as far
- as sampling is concerned it was a failure. There will almost certainly
- be future missions --- a great deal has been learned from this one.
-
- Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu
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