Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
Jun 7 2007, 07:07 AM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
Yes, it's time to Rock the Inner Geek and proclaim your love for what you consider to be what's hot and what's...well, boring in terms of planetary excitement. Criteria may include dynamicism, color, scale, grandeur, crater-counting wrist torture, budgetary reality, and whatever else you might consider relevant. I'll open with my own picks, without giving any particular reasons. (Earth can count if you like)
In descending order... Most Interesting: 1.) Io 2.) Titan 3.) Europa 4.) Enceladus 5.) Mars 6.) Triton 7.) Venus 8.) Pluto 9.) Dione 10. Iapetus Least Interesting: 1.) Rhea 2.) Luna 3.) Mercury 4.) Oberon 5.) Mimas 6.) Tethys 7.) Callisto 8.) Ganymede 9.) Earth 10.) New Jersey -------------------- ...if you don't like my melody, i'll sing it in a major key, i'll sing it very happily. heavens! everybody's all aboard? let's take it back to that minor chord...
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Jun 11 2007, 09:50 AM
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Most interesting:
1. Mars 2. Europa 3. Titan 4. Earth's moon 5. Triton 6. Ceres 7. Pluto 8. Io 9. Phobos 10. Mercury Least interesting 1. Venus ( quite boring, huh ) 2. Uranus ( except the moon Miranda ) |
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Jun 11 2007, 08:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Least interesting 1. Venus ( quite boring, huh ) No way! It's just hard to explore. We might end up finding out that Venus is the second most volcanic body in the solar system, or third if it doesn't beat Earth. There are at least three mysteries regarding its atmosphere, it vomits its innards into a new surface every 700 million years, and we don't know why it has the funny rotation or how it turned out so different from Earth in the first place. And even just taking the geomorphology of today, it's got scads of wrinkly terrains, tessarae and compression, etc. Venus is way above average! As far as we know so far, it clobbers Mercury. |
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Jun 12 2007, 05:57 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
No way! It's just hard to explore. Venus is probably one of the easiest planets to explore: 1. No extreme radiation environment 2. Easy to reach 3. Has a nice, think, constant atmosphere. Don't need to worry about altitude, or depth/temp varying 4. Nearly earth gravity. 5. Close enough to the sun for solar power in orbit. 6. Close enough to the Earth for high data rates 7. No Great Galactic Ghoul gobbling up spacecraft. 8. ED (not L obviously) testing could be done in your back yard, more or less. 9. Lots of hours of daylight, something like 60 days? (Anyone think up 1 more reason? Top Ten lists have to have, um, ten items. I mean really, what's a little sulfuric acid and 700 K? Just rework your system to work with vacuum tubes and wind up springs and you're good to go. Seriously though, there is lots of good stuff on Venus exploration at the VEXAG website, and in a blog entry Emily did last year at a VEXAG meeting: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/vexag.html http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000560/ Their Reports and Conference Reports are pretty informative. I agree with John, Venus is not boring, and has more interesting things to tell us than Mercury. I think there's lots of things worth taking a look at, with short duration landers, or a yo-yo-ing balloon. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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