I'm back from the Europa Focus Group meeting... |
I'm back from the Europa Focus Group meeting... |
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Mar 1 2006, 07:33 AM
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...which I decided to attend literally at the last possible minute, which is why I didn't alert you guys in advance. Very interesting -- both the discussions about the likely design of the mission (and how to retrieve it from cancellation), and many of the actual science presentations (which aren't on the Web yet, although they probably soon will be). I'll give you some more information tomorrow -- although I can't resist telling Alex that Tom Spilker's subgroup took my ideas about a Europa penetrator, and the printed information I gave them on the subject, seriously enough to recommend making further inquiries to NASA HQ on it. (And without my browbeating them, either. Nyaah.) The case for it, however, is still extremely far from certain.
As I say, more tomorrow. |
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Mar 7 2006, 09:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here's a diagram of the Luna 9-style landers' landing sequence, showing the discarded padded shell... I'd prefer to call it that. The expression 'airbags' was never used by the Soviets until Pathfinder, when Russian sources started referring to the Luna 9 padding in the same way. I don't want to say it's intentionally misleading, it is probably a translation issue. But there was no sudden inflation as we would think of in airbags.
We have no idea how far the landed capsule rolled after being ejected from the carrier stage. The padded shell and the carrier rocket may be close by but hiddem by the tilt of the camera, or just too far away to be sen clearly. I have suggested that a big 'rock' (mapped as such by the Soviets) near Luna 13 might be its shattered carrier rocket stage. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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