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DUST
ANALYSIS |
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Overview
of function
This type of instrument
samples the immediate space for dust, with higher technology such as
propulsion fields these instruments are for the most part only useful
when craft are traveling under inertia drives or coasting, otherwise
propulsion fields will move dust away from the craft or at least change
the particle’s trajectory. Dust detection instrument will typically
measure dust mass and velocity as well as charge and trajectory. The
obtained readings themselves are not very informative for navigation,
though dust characterization can tell you where you are in a planetary
system, what planetary system and to an extent what the immediate
neighbourhood is like. |
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