Jupiter flagship selected |
Jupiter flagship selected |
Feb 18 2009, 03:47 PM
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Feb 20 2009, 03:19 AM
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The selection makes sense to me. After all, we've had many years to wring every last little bit of interpretation we can manage from the Galileo data, and even longer to analyze the Voyager and Pioneer data from Jupiter.
Cassini is still going strong at Saturn, and may find even more new things that could, conceivably, impact the kinds of sensors we might want to load onto the next Saturn probe. But there is almost nothing new waiting in the wings that will affect what you'd want to put onto a Jupiter mission. So, from a mission design and planning point of view, I think this was the best decision. I truly think there are wondrous things yet to behold in Jupiter space. And I'd hate to be bending tin for a Saturn/Titan probe when I found out that there's a truly interesting phenomenon to be studied that our design is ill-equipped to look at. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Mar 4 2009, 05:39 PM
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