Though both suits power systems were low, the group made it back with the artifact in one piece.
Everyone was almost jumping out of their skin waiting for the power units to recharge before they could go out and examine the machine up close. In the meantime, they had to be satisfied with the telemetry they got from the ship's cameras.
The first discovery was that there did appear to be a type of door in the side of the 'turret,' but it was only 20 centimeters wide, nothing that they would be able to explore with the bulky suits anyway.
Yolanda and Muobo spent hours watching the camera feed and zooming in on different details.
They got so caught up in that Yolanda barely noticed when Chen came into the room smiling as he held aloft a small boxy device about 15cm square with four pegs sticking out at each corner.
“What's that you have there Mr. Chen?
They watched with awe as Chen set the device on the floor and the four pegs rotated on their servo-motors propelling the object forward. At the front and the back were two robotic arms with grapplers at the ends.
“Isfaheem helped me put this together from our spare parts supply. My hope is that it will give us our first glimpse of the cab on our alien machine.”
Muobo was visibly impressed and helped Chen and Isfaheem to calibrate the camera to the ship's computer system. Once they got a readout, it was a simple matter to push it out of the airlock and direct it towards the turret.