Science
Related: About this forumMaybe this is a dumb question but here goes. Why haven't drones
been sent down into the Siberian craters to take pictures? Wouldn't drones fitted with cameras be ideal way to explore these phemon?
mike_c
(36,214 posts)If you mean something with the range of the big drones, like the weapons platforms, that function could be performed just as well by piloted aircraft. That's where the aerial photos that have already been released came from. But those aircraft can really only fly overhead, so they're little better than airplanes and probably not nearly as good as helicopters.
If you mean small, radio controlled type drones with cameras attached, like quad-copters, we can't just "send" them around the world. They have limited range and so must be delivered to the sites and deployed there. While they might indeed be useful tools, once people are on site they can take measurements directly, enter the craters and photograph them directly, and so on.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)I've read that the land around these craters is too unstable to permit close inspection so I assumed that is why there hasn't been any photos from deep inside the holes.
DocwillCuNow
(162 posts)think was a fairly decent size machine gun underneath it. Sort of reminded me of the last terminator movie.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)Something long-ranged, like a Global Hawk, that carries a couple of tiny drones that it can deploy.
Sort of like that dirigible in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".