That was my reading of the title... I was thinking: "Can't they just go out in the back yard and do a little digging and get all the information without an expensive launch?"
I'm assuming the probe was meant for Mars or somewhere... But I'm not sure about that. ;)
/johnny
4 posted on 12/23/2011 10:53:00 AM PST by JRandomFreeper
(gone Galt)