Mercury Landers |
Mercury Landers |
Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM
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While the likelyhood of a Mercury Lander mission is very low, I was wondering if any planning/studies have been done on such a project?
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Nov 26 2005, 09:13 PM
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There was, I've heard (though I haven't confirmed it), a smash-and-grab Mercury sampling mission once proposed for Discovery. Meanwhile, the ESA has actually done the preliminary design for a full-fledged Mercury landing and sample return -- although they also did so for Venus, which may give you some idea of how politically realistic the plan is. I'm convinced that, given their cost, it will be a long time before we see a landing and sample-return mission from any large world that doesn't have possible biological evidence -- that is, Mars and (in the longer run, if previous landers turn up something interesting) Europa.
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