Sticky situation. I wonder if they have thought of using something
simle like cotton cheesecloth or highly sterilized gauze. It picks up
dirt, dust, small rocks, etc. without any kind of residue, unless you
count cotton fibre which can be seperated out since it is easy to
detect.
Just an idea.
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Thomas Green wrote:
> Yeesh! and I thought I was a pessimist :-)
>
> As far as can NASA do anything useful for $1B and innovate? Get a grip!!
> NEAR: total mission cost of $200m
> Pathfinder: total mission cost of $260m
>
> Is this unreasonable costs? Inefficient? S
