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.
The NASA Invention of the Year is a first for a humanoid robot and another in a series of firsts for R2 that include: the first robot inside a human space vehicle operating without a cage and the first robot to work with human-rated tools in space.