"thor" Mars Mission To Seek Underground Water |
"thor" Mars Mission To Seek Underground Water |
Jan 26 2006, 03:46 PM
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A new, low-cost mission concept to Mars would slam a projectile into the planet's surface in an attempt to look for subsurface water ice.
"I'm interested in exploring mid-latitude areas of Mars that look like they're made of snow and ice," Phil Christensen, the project's principal investigator, told SpaceDaily.com. Christensen, of Arizona State University, and colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, are proposing a mission called THOR – for Tracing Habitability, Organics and Resources – as part of NASA's Mars Scout program. Like last year's Deep Impact mission to comet Tempel 1, THOR aims to ram a projectile at high speed into the surface of Mars while a host spacecraft remains in orbit and observes the impact and its aftermath. If approved by NASA, the mission would launch in 2011. That mission would be after MSL's mission. Now it is still a proposal It would cost around US$ 450 millions More details: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/THOR_Mar...ound_Water.html Rodolfo |
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Jan 29 2006, 03:43 AM
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QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Jan 27 2006, 03:59 PM) Folks, you heard it here first. And I'll go ahead and bookmark this message. If this mission concept is ever selected, I'll need ammunition to refute any claims that Christensen "stole" the idea from you, or that you were a driving force behind the mission. Laugh while you can, monkey boy. Yesterday I had a protracted phone conversation with Paul Lucey at U-Hawaii, as a result of which I may start pushing the Europa penetrator idea again. More on this later. |
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Jan 30 2006, 06:40 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jan 29 2006, 03:43 AM) Laugh while you can, monkey boy. Yesterday I had a protracted phone conversation with Paul Lucey at U-Hawaii, as a result of which I may start pushing the Europa penetrator idea again. As long as you're thinking about "pushing," whatever that means, and assuming, of course, that has any effect, if it would not violate planetary protection requirements, maybe you could also convince Lucey to fly your ashes on that mission. Now that would be a proper way to commemorate the vital role you play in planetary exploration |
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