If the pressure drops, the soil pressure increases and this leads to subsidence at the ground level. Since exploitation of the Slochteren (Netherlands) gas field started in the late 1960s the ground level over a 250 kmÂ² area has dropped by a current maximum of 30 cm.
Confidence votes 18.5K. There are quite a few tools that the Astronauts use, though for construction and maintenance in space, the Pistol Grip Tool (PGT) is the primary tool of choice. Its predecessor was the Power Ratchet Tool (PRT), originally developed and created for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
This is because CPV solar cells have been used in space for quite some time now. . NASA developed the Robonaut 2, which is a robot that looks human and will work like one. It has human-like hands and arms, this will allow it to use the same tools that astronaut crew members use.hile you wouldn't think that there would be improvements in medicine because of the space program there were several important developments. In the area of breast cancer, there were new sensors developed to detect breast cancer that were more efficient and used smaller x-ray exposures to reduce radiation hazards.