3 hours ago our countdown has finished: the capsule successfully landed.
As the operator told us, it went through the atmosphere, reaching the speed around 200 km per hour (I can't remember more precise, unfortunately). At the point being 120 meters above the ground the brake bag opened — a huge porous, yet elastic ball (not exactly a sphere, but it's close to it), about five meters in diameter, that accepted all the energy from hitting the surface. Back on Earth we run over a million tests to find any possible troubles on a broad variety of different relief types. Even though the test gave us good results, everyone was fairly nervous about that, and applauded, when the first message from the probe reached the ship.
At first, we were receiving data from air and land analysis. Atmosphere includes less oxygen them it does at Earth — 14%, the basic gas is, just like at home, nitrogen — 78%. They have way more inertial gases, about 5%, with most of it being xenon — 3.2%, followed by helium — 1.1%. The rest in the original sample was occupied by carbon dioxide, 3% in total. Deep sonic scan of land demonstrated that, as on Earth, the main element should be silicon — around 80%. It also indicated presence of aluminium, bore, sulfur, phosphor, as well as some actinium and berkelium, but we need an actual sample to make sure, which we will have later. Surface probe is compromised right now, because we cannot predict the way it had been affected by the landing.
Soon the first should settle down, and we hope to get a first picture. Right now we're planning on radiologic scan, which will allow us to get a better view of lithosphere's structure, maybe even estimate its' width.
As the operator told us, it went through the atmosphere, reaching the speed around 200 km per hour (I can't remember more precise, unfortunately). At the point being 120 meters above the ground the brake bag opened — a huge porous, yet elastic ball (not exactly a sphere, but it's close to it), about five meters in diameter, that accepted all the energy from hitting the surface. Back on Earth we run over a million tests to find any possible troubles on a broad variety of different relief types. Even though the test gave us good results, everyone was fairly nervous about that, and applauded, when the first message from the probe reached the ship.
At first, we were receiving data from air and land analysis. Atmosphere includes less oxygen them it does at Earth — 14%, the basic gas is, just like at home, nitrogen — 78%. They have way more inertial gases, about 5%, with most of it being xenon — 3.2%, followed by helium — 1.1%. The rest in the original sample was occupied by carbon dioxide, 3% in total. Deep sonic scan of land demonstrated that, as on Earth, the main element should be silicon — around 80%. It also indicated presence of aluminium, bore, sulfur, phosphor, as well as some actinium and berkelium, but we need an actual sample to make sure, which we will have later. Surface probe is compromised right now, because we cannot predict the way it had been affected by the landing.
Soon the first should settle down, and we hope to get a first picture. Right now we're planning on radiologic scan, which will allow us to get a better view of lithosphere's structure, maybe even estimate its' width.
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