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The instruments to study the surface would be different that if you were aiming at a lava tube. They have to be big enough to carry the kind of fuel cell that can power their systems, but not be too small that they get wedged into everything.

- Penelope Boston

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We'll be looking at Earth from the outside, looking at how we study our own planet. - Penelope Boston

These guys need to keep in communication with each other. So they could set up a node-to-node communications system a lot like a cellular [phone] network. Everybody will know where everybody else is. - Penelope Boston

The best thing about these places is that large -- as in macroscopic -- buried fossilized material is usually weathering out of the outcrops. One can see them laying about and follow the fragments to the source. For microscopic fossils, of course, no clear obvious clues are usually present. The exception is large scale microbial mats like those that made stromatolites and algal travertiles and tufa. - Penelope Boston