Jupiter flagship selected |
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Feb 18 2009, 03:47 PM
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Mar 5 2009, 02:34 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Not to fan flames, but it also might be wise to consider some of the possible implications of Juramike's Titan soil fluid absorption/surface consistency experiment.
I'm not totally convinced that we understand Titan well enough yet to make conclusive choices with respect to surface exploration methodologies. -------------------- 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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Mar 5 2009, 03:05 PM
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Mar 5 2009, 04:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
This is why the lake landing site was selected... pumping in a liquid is easier than trying to figure out how to dig up dune particles. You would think. Except we don't really know the physical characteristics of the lake contents. Who knows what kind of gunk has formed. http://www.journeyoftheforsaken.com/dividecreekseep2008.htm |
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Mar 6 2009, 06:57 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 29-September 05 Member No.: 518 |
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Mar 6 2009, 07:54 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Even with gunk, liquid would be considerably easier to sample than rock or regolith. This is a much easier challenge than the sampling challenges faced by Viking or Surveyor or Phoenix. In exploration there is always going to be some sort of unknown.... and you won't know 100% what a surface is like until you go there. By the 2020's (when a Titan mission would be launched) we're going to know everything about the surface that Cassini-Huygens can tell us and we won't know any more until we go there. The complexities of getting to Titan, landing there, and getting data back are not nearly so simple as you suggest. "Much easier" than a Mars mission? Ha! At any rate, I will repeat that saying the Europa mission is more technically ready is not an attempt to mock the Titan mission. To suggest the Titan mission is easier than a Mars mission is beyond ridiculous and not worth discussing. -------------------- |
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