Jupiter flagship selected |
Jupiter flagship selected |
Feb 18 2009, 03:47 PM
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Feb 18 2009, 07:02 PM
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Great great news! I was also at first a bit pro-titan but now i feel fine with this decision, actually quite positive, because both missions have been recognized important ones and are moving forward. As mentioned here before I also believe "Cassini's goodness" was one reason why Jupiter is now getting its shot. And to be honest, we really need a Europa orbiter, finally. Science moves on small steps and this way we will eventually have Europa lander/driller/diver sooner in the still distant future. This also levels nicely the scientific returns on two giants, Jupiter after all is still the most important planet in our system in many aspects.
One thing here is also, that if Titan mission would have been given priority, pretty likely there would have been then more of these less capable discovery-class stuff going to Jupiter anyway, so this would have been effectively eliminating other interesting discovery options like Venus balloon/lander. Titan anyway needs to be flagship-way and letting technology mature a bit especially with balloons we improve chances of success there in the future. What a great time to be anyway. I am just impatiently waiting for first pictures from Ceres, Pluto/Charon, around Mercury and of course the first light of Kepler... |
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