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To: Fai Mao

Will it hold up in the cold? What about rover material properties at those temperatures? Iron becomes brittle at below zero. Do other materials have strange, unexpected properties?


8 posted on 09/21/2021 3:44:29 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

“Do other materials have strange, unexpected properties?”

Strange, yes. Unexpected, no. We have refrigerators that can gets super cold. They have studied this stuff. Will it fail? Maybe. But this is not the first device to need to survive extreme cold.


11 posted on 09/21/2021 9:20:32 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Western Phil

Yes, it will hold up in the cold. This is not NASA’s first rodeo.


12 posted on 09/21/2021 1:15:59 PM PDT by ready2brd
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