"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
11/19/2013 at 17:18 • Filed to: the moon master
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"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
11/19/2013 at 17:18 • Filed to: the moon master | 5
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The tires of the LRV had to be light and able to shed fine, tenacious particles of lunar soil. The solution involved a wire mesh over a flexible metal inner-tube. The tires would trap soil at the bottom of their rotation, and release it upon the expansion of the mesh at the top.
deekster_caddy
> Kake Bake
11/19/2013 at 18:17 |
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Cool to see in testing! I found these randomly the other day when somebody randomly mentioned "autumn tires" and of course I went and searched for "spring tires". And came across tons of pictures of these things!
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Kake Bake
> deekster_caddy
11/19/2013 at 18:48 |
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Yeah, very cool.
I was watching a Discovery Channel special about the LRV today and it had much better quality footage of the testing. The carousel test rig (from my .gif) caught my attention, so I YouTubed the footage and got this.