The Apollo 17 astronauts had to create a replacement fender for the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) while on the Moon, using only materials they had with them.
Just because you don't understand something, doesn’t make it a theory.
The moon is covered in dust, which is the same stuff that the boots and tires leave marks in. But the moon also has low gravity, so any dust that's kicked up will travel farther than it would on earth. Which means as the astronauts worked around the wheel, any dust they'd kick up would cover the tracks even if they didn't step directly beside the wheel because the dust flies farther due to low gravity.
This is why the tracks by the wheel are gone, but there aren't boot prints directly beside the wheel either. In fact, since there aren't tire marks or boot prints directly beside the wheel, this confirms that this couldn't have been photographed anywhere without low gravity.
Also, why would they a) need to make repairs to a fake rover, and b) alter in the boot prints, but not the rover tracks?
Why is this hard for you? On earth, on a fake stage set, with a fake rover, there STILL should be tracks. Are you suggesting NASA dropped the rover straight down on the fake stage set, so they could plant hints to the fact that it's staged?
The profile is weird, too. It seems too active for a real person. I see so much stuff like this online that makes me doubt the authenticity behind so much content. Shit’s creepy.
It keeps regolith from getting flung way up and raining down on them. They tried to drive the LRV without it, but it was too much of a mess. The fenders are absolutely necessary
There’s something awesome in the most amazing way about being on an alien world and having basically the same kind of issue you might have driving a dune buggy in a desert on earth. Similar to things the various mars rovers encountered. There’s something about that quality of being in a totally alien world and yet encountering problems, seeing vistas and sites, that are the same as back home that really gives you goose bumps.
Moon dust, regolith, is a super fine material that they struggled with it sticking to everything. Having it flung up in the low gravity was the problem. It will be a big issue to deal with to put a manned base there.
Oh yeah moon dust (regolith because dirt is different) is basically extremely abrasive, excessively so. You’re basically flinging around tiny caltrops. Regolith in general ends up like that. I assume because there’s no cycle that smooths out the grains like on earth.
They used maps from the places where they didn't land. They flew with a bunch of different detailed maps within the intended landing zone but once they landed a bunch of those maps became irrelevant.
It makes you wonder, what would a 2025 crew do? Tape on a spare iPad?
Probably some sort of packing material would be used today but it's interesting to think that transitioning to digital makes analog problems harder to solve.
Greatest inventions: the wheel, and duct tape
The inanimate bar!
Carbon rod*
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Yeah, that or the astronauts kicked up dust and walked over the tracks
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Just because you don't understand something, doesn’t make it a theory.
The moon is covered in dust, which is the same stuff that the boots and tires leave marks in. But the moon also has low gravity, so any dust that's kicked up will travel farther than it would on earth. Which means as the astronauts worked around the wheel, any dust they'd kick up would cover the tracks even if they didn't step directly beside the wheel because the dust flies farther due to low gravity.
This is why the tracks by the wheel are gone, but there aren't boot prints directly beside the wheel either. In fact, since there aren't tire marks or boot prints directly beside the wheel, this confirms that this couldn't have been photographed anywhere without low gravity.
Also, why would they a) need to make repairs to a fake rover, and b) alter in the boot prints, but not the rover tracks?
You realise that if it was fake, that would still be the case, right…
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You are saying that you think this is fake because there aren’t tire prints. But why would being on earth mean that there wouldn’t be tire prints?
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Why are you deflecting.
Wouldn’t there be tracks in whatever scenario you’re inferring?
But you don’t think that’s the case on Earth?
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Why is this hard for you? On earth, on a fake stage set, with a fake rover, there STILL should be tracks. Are you suggesting NASA dropped the rover straight down on the fake stage set, so they could plant hints to the fact that it's staged?
I’m not trying to insult you, but is English your first language?
Up, down, up, up, d-pad left, left, right, left, triangle square
It was Cernan's hammer that was dangling from his suit that caught the fender and ripped it off, iirc.
The LRV looks robust in pictures but Boeing made it as light as possible and with only three days of use in mind, so it was pretty flimsy
Enough said.
Different time for them. The LRV doesn't get enough recognition
This was the Boeing that built the 747, not the Boeing that built the 737 MAX.
So painfully true
DAE Boeing bad?? 😂
Remember Apollo 13 and the lithium hydroxide cartridges? Duct tape did a lot more than deflect dirt on that mission.
How did they find the edge of the tape with those big gloves on?
With a knife or scraper, probably
That's smart
5 in 1 or a putty knife do it well, with lower risk of messing up the tape roll (or your suit lol)
Pretty sure that tape is turned to dust by now.
That's surely the question. No oxygen to react. But a lot of unfiltered UV and other radiation to burn it up.
This feels like an ai comment
The profile is weird, too. It seems too active for a real person. I see so much stuff like this online that makes me doubt the authenticity behind so much content. Shit’s creepy.
It can't burn, there's no air.
Burn has more meanings than just "combustion".
Sick burn
What purpose does the fender serve? Does it just prevent lunar soil from getting kicked up onto the rest of the rover?
It keeps regolith from getting flung way up and raining down on them. They tried to drive the LRV without it, but it was too much of a mess. The fenders are absolutely necessary
There’s something awesome in the most amazing way about being on an alien world and having basically the same kind of issue you might have driving a dune buggy in a desert on earth. Similar to things the various mars rovers encountered. There’s something about that quality of being in a totally alien world and yet encountering problems, seeing vistas and sites, that are the same as back home that really gives you goose bumps.
I understood every word you said
Especially the part about scenery being the same/familiar.
I look at Venus images or the ones from Titan and I know they're hellish places but they look so familiar, with those rocks and "dirt" around.
We rocky planets are much more similar one another than I would have assumed.
Good thing they thought of that on earth
Moon dust, regolith, is a super fine material that they struggled with it sticking to everything. Having it flung up in the low gravity was the problem. It will be a big issue to deal with to put a manned base there.
Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.
Andy Weir, The Martian
You can wrap Christmas presents with it in a pinch.
I did this 2 days ago for a white elephant gift exchange. The lucky person received a yeti mug for their troubles.
What did they need th fender for?
Probably didn’t want to sling dust high enough it could fall back down onto them.
Oh yeah moon dust (regolith because dirt is different) is basically extremely abrasive, excessively so. You’re basically flinging around tiny caltrops. Regolith in general ends up like that. I assume because there’s no cycle that smooths out the grains like on earth.
I'm still disappointed that the Lego model of this doesn't include the duct tape.
Maybe it's something to improvise, once the kit is set up, on location.
Apollo 13 be like…
And Apollo 13...
How does the sticky portion of duct tape hold up against the vacuum of space? Does it evaporate immediately once pulled off the roll?
That’s why they use duct tape. It doesn’t have the same properties or suffer from the same issues as other adhesive tapes.
The sticky polymers do not evaporate.
Most tapes will work in space as long as they are capable of bonding at low temperatures.
I couldn’t imagine trying to use duct tape with those thick ass astronaut gloves on
Fascinated by those wheels designed to let the dust inside them
They used maps from the places where they didn't land. They flew with a bunch of different detailed maps within the intended landing zone but once they landed a bunch of those maps became irrelevant.
It makes you wonder, what would a 2025 crew do? Tape on a spare iPad?
Probably some sort of packing material would be used today but it's interesting to think that transitioning to digital makes analog problems harder to solve.
If you can’t duct it…
Fuck it?
I hate that duck tape's name got corrupted.
Conspiracy theorists would probably note the lack of tire tracks.