New Mars Express And Huygens Results, ESA conference - November 30, 2005 |
New Mars Express And Huygens Results, ESA conference - November 30, 2005 |
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Nov 22 2005, 06:15 PM
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http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMA96ULWFE_index_0.html
Relating to Mars Express: "At the same time, ESA’s Mars Express mission is continuing its investigations of Mars, painting a new picture of the 'red planet'. This includes the first ever probing below the surface of Mars, new geological clues with implications for the climate, newly-discovered surface and atmospheric features and, above all, traces of the presence of water on this world." |
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Dec 8 2005, 03:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
The above 4 mentioned sites of interest for ExoMars since they have high probability to find phillosilicate. All of those terrain are rough, covered with stones like the Viking 1 and 2 sites. On the other hand, David Parker, David Parker, director of space science at the British National Space Centre, said the mission would build on the heritage of Beagle 2.
"Imagine a spacecraft landing on Mars using parachutes and airbags, maybe a rocket system of some sort," he told the BBC News website. Hope it won't be a repeated mistake. No airbag on these rough sites unless use only rockets and an advanced surface radar and navigation autonomy system to steer the wrong landing place for one better surface to land like the ones of the american landing mode with Skycrane . If MSL success its landing, hope that ESA will follow it. Rodolfo |
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Dec 8 2005, 03:55 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Dec 8 2005, 04:15 PM) Some excellent points there. Does anyone know if (a) The MSL skycrane is likely to be a multi purpose design and ( what chance is there of Exomars considering it? The 2002 ExoMars\Netlander study specifies "inflatable technology" for the descent module, ie airbags. Some further info on Exomars (also from the 2002 document available here so it maybe very out of date) Total Rover landed mass 223kg. Landing targets - 10-45deg latitudes (North or South). Mission duration - 4months (main limiting factor appears to be Dust storm risk) This proposal includes a relay orbiter and 4 netlander modules (stationary seismic\atmospheric probes with 0.5-1 year mission durations). I've seen no mention of the Netlanders in the current ESA announcements, do we know for certain that they have been canned? |
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