Low gravity is the reason I have always been skeptical about plans to send astronauts to asteroids or plans to successfully mine an asteroid.
How do you anchor a shelter or an astronaut or a mining tool in place?
And, once you figure out how to dig, wouldn’t there be a perpetual fog of dirt and small rocks floating around?
Not to mention the face of the guy looming out of shadows in the bottom left corner of the Big Picture,...the one they cropped out in the broadcast photo,...looks like the same face on the Martian surface. /CT <;^0
How do you anchor a shelter or an astronaut or a mining tool in place?
Probably with an auger-type device of some sort. Look at any row of power poles in the US. A few of them will have guy wires. At the bottom end of each guy wire there is an earth anchor, which looks a lot like a short auger. Something like this is the anchor they will use.
And, once you figure out how to dig, wouldn’t there be a perpetual fog of dirt and small rocks floating around?
Most of the dirt, dust and small rocks will have escape velocity and will just keep going into space...