🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Jones suggests:

   Another reader asked me privately whether the active volcano in
   Antartica, Mt. Erebus, might be tested using the publicized robot
   for the presence of tritium.  Erebus volcano is actually a good
   place to look, since very little tritium remains from H-bomb
   testing way down there in the So. Hemisphere, I understand.  I do
   not know whether the robot will get samples which could be tested
   for tritium content.

The Dante expedition is all over. It has been judged a technical
success, but the robot did _not_ make it down into the crater (kinks
in the fiber-optic tether lead to a loss of control comms). So as far
as sampling is concerned it was a failure. There will almost certainly
be future missions --- a great deal has been learned from this one.

Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu