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QUOTE (MahFL @ Jul 1 2005, 02:26 PM) MRO looks menacing with its fully deployed HGA and solar panels.  No one would have believed in the last years of the L'zak Era that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than a martian's and yet as mortal as his own; that as martians busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a martian with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of acidic Meridiani water. With infinite complacency martians went to and fro under the surface of this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the extremophile infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the other worlds of space as sources of danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed sols. At most martian beings fancied there might be other beings upon Earth, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise, especially if it came bearing Mars bars. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the tasty Hesperia beasts, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded Mars with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their multi-year roadmaps against us. And then came the great disillusionment. |
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Jul 1 2005, 08:11 PM
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Jul 1 2005, 08:26 PM
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About HGA protection...
I found a PDF speaks about that "silver mesh" on HGA.... This is not for the "aerobraking"!!! It inhibits dust accumulation on the reflective surface of HGA... Read that PDF... I was searching that PDF for 2 hours.... Then... Why didn't Cassini have that "silver mesh"??? Saturn region has big dust concentration!!!?
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