A second vantage
The survey machine reaches a selected position, carries its own instruments, and stays outside a defined boundary. It makes another observation possible without treating a difficult site as an invitation to disturb it.
Its record gains value when compared with independent clocks, control locations, and measurements from other tools. A machine can extend a team’s reach without settling the interpretation for them.
Equipped for the work.
Find this in the novel: Chapters 1, 19.