
Send Elon Musk to dig it out ASAP!
NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most recent flight. The loss of contact with its counterpart rover Perseverance occurred last Thursday during Flight 72, which the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) described as "a quick …
"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
To be sure of what, exactly?
Nuking the surface and hoping the blast penetrates hundreds of metres down to the ice, will probably end up irradiating the ice making it unsuitable for use.
And for such a rare material to be made useless, makes no sense, especially when the alternative is to transport more from Earth (and with all the negative ramifications that might involve).
Imagine a radical form of life (completely unknown to us) on or "in" Mars that is looking up at the "alien spacecraft" that are appearing on the planet ... but could it be that about a billion years ago our little ancestral fish, walking our of the sea around the Earth, started to evolve to hide from helicopters sent from other planets?
As humans today we can see what is happening recently but only hopefully guess what might happen in the very distant future.
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Dear MFF (Martian Friend Forever), sorry about the lack of ice cubes in last Friday's evening bloody mary ... I've now ordered a brand new boring drill bit with next launch day delivery to remedy this at once (I hear there is a HUGE freezer full of the stuff right under our green feet)!
-- your Express MARSIS FREND (rejoicing in advance!)