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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Mar 5 2009, 03:48 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 13-February 09 Member No.: 4600 |
I wonder what would be the point of turning off the radio transmitter in the first place. If ICE can be used again (and I remember reading about this back in the pages of Odyssey [does anyone remember that magazine?] back when I was a teenager) then I wonder if there are other spaceprobes out there that could be used again save a deactivated transmitter.
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Aug 30 2009, 10:16 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
A new mission is being studied - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009DDA....40.1302D
This would be a great mission...the flyby would occur in 2018, around the same time as Comet Wirtanen comes within 7 million kilometers (.08 AU - for comparison, the close flyby of Comet Hyakutake in 1996 was .1 AU) of earth, likely becoming visible to the unaided eye and allowing observatories on earth and in earth orbit to image the comet while ICE takes in situ data. I hope NASA isn't short-sighted on this one. I imagine this mission would be quite cheap, and would greatly enhance science gained in it's close approach. Because of upcoming flybys of Jupiter, Wirtanen will not come very close to earth again (at least while any of us are alive, save if some technology allows our talking heads to be kept alive in a pickle jar or something). If this comet sounds familiar, it was Rosetta's original target. -------------------- |
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