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May 5 2011, 08:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
Ahoy mateys!
NASA announces Discovery mission selection for Phase A. Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) is among them. Har! |
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May 16 2011, 01:08 PM
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Except that the vast majority of the data will probably be GCMS results, which are a little less photogenic, albeit very scientifically valuable.
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May 17 2011, 05:35 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
Except that the vast majority of the data will probably be GCMS results, which are a little less photogenic, albeit very scientifically valuable. I'm glad to see that you lot are thinking about all this - fun, isnt't it? Obviously I'm not going to go into specifics but it is possible to address some of the questions that have come up in very general terms. Materials/temperatures - guys, come on. Huygens operated in this environment until its batteries ran out. Launch vehicles - to say nothing of the liquified natural gas industry - deal with cryogenic fluids all the time. Of course heat leaks and insulation need to be designed appropriately, and material properties at the relevant environment must be considered, as they do on Mars and Venus or in vacuo. Communications - some cogent discussion on the thread. This has been thought about a lot for Titan balloons too. I'll remind readers that many cruise ships, and drones for that matter, use gimballed antennas for satellite communications. Again, not trivial, but a familiar and soluble problem. As for data - have a look at the Huygens or Pathfinder or any other mission's balance of data volume between imaging, composition, meteorology etc. On any mission this balance gets struck somehow (and indeed it can often be tuned during the mission) |
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