ICE is alive ! |
ICE is alive ! |
Oct 3 2008, 08:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
This information from Emily is amazing.
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001673/ ICE is alive and may perhaps be assigned to a new mission. |
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Nov 9 2008, 02:23 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I'd like to know more about any putative retrieval plan. Aerobraking would seem to defeat the entire stated purpose, since it would presumably erode (and contaminate) any accreted cometary material, even assuming that the final orbit would be accessible (altitude, inclination, eccentricity, etc.) Plus, how would we get it? I can't see NASA signing off on an add-on Shuttle mission for this purpose, and nothing in the Constellation architecture seems capable of doing so.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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