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May 5 2011, 08:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
NASA just announced the three candidates for the next Discovery mission:
- A Mars Geophysical Monitoring Station - the Titan Mare Explorer (yes!!!!!) - the Comet Hopper see http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/na...-121343498.html |
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May 6 2011, 05:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
more info on GEMS http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AGUFMDI43A1938B
and an image of the Phoenix-based lander http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/mul...a/pia13990.html |
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May 7 2011, 04:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
and an interesting presentation on the "Comet Hopper"
ftp://ftp.astro.umd.edu/pub/jess/CHopper_...9_JMS_final.ppt turns out GEMS is the only solar-powered proposal of the three candidates |
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May 25 2011, 05:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
NASA to Announce New Planetary Science Mission
NF3 will be announced in a few hours. place your last bets... |
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May 25 2011, 05:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Scientifically, I prefer SAGE. I'm very excited to see a return to the Venusian surface. Institutionally, I prefer OsirisREX since the SciOps center would be here in Tucson at the old Phoenix building. However, knowing NASA, it'll be MoonRISE.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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May 25 2011, 05:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
my favorite would definitely be SAGE, then Osiris, then MoonRISE. No matter what, I still find the Moon boring...
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May 25 2011, 06:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
SAGE...I like fuzzy planets.
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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May 25 2011, 07:13 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
If the word "Planetary" in "New Planetary Science Mission" is to be taken literally, then it must mean a Venus mission, since neither the Moon nor an asteroid are considered planets.
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May 25 2011, 08:05 PM
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Martian Photographer Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 3-March 05 Member No.: 183 |
Just posted at NASA multimedia:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogaller...dia_id=90571421 OSIRIS-REx: Journey to an Asteroid OSIRIS-REx will pluck samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth. The samples could help explain our solar system's formation and how life began. OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) has a planned launch date in 2016. When it returns to Earth, scheduled for 2023, it will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to our planet. |
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May 25 2011, 08:08 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
If the word "Planetary" in "New Planetary Science Mission" is to be taken literally, then it must mean a Venus mission, since neither the Moon nor an asteroid are considered planets. Planetary is essentially solar system exploration. You can play a semantics game if you like - but that's what it is. Discovery program missions to comets, asteroids, moon, mars and elsewhere are all 'Planetary' in the budget. |
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May 25 2011, 08:17 PM
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Martian Photographer Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 3-March 05 Member No.: 183 |
The actual announcement of OSIRIS-REX is up now:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/fea...osiris-rex.html. I have no stake in any (but I do like atmospheres). But, semantics aside, this sounds planetary enough for my tastes. |
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May 28 2011, 01:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
Marco Polo, which narrowly lost out in the competition for consideration for an earlier M1 or M2 mission slot, is through again. with Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-Rex approved I doubt that Marco Polo will get a chance to fly. I believe a more sensitive proposition would be for ESA to finance its contribution to one of these mission. Anyway, there was recently an interesting paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics (with free access) on the target body of Marco Polo: New observations of asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3, primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission |
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Jul 19 2011, 12:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
There's a new proposal for the next stages in exploring Europa coming from a NASA Europa Science Definition Team. The basic idea is to carry only geophysical instruments that must make measurements from orbit on an orbiter. High data rate remote sensing -- presumably cameras and imaging spectrometers -- would be carried on a Jupiter orbiter that would make multiple flybys of Europa.
You can read an EPSC abstract here. I have some additional analysis at my blog here. -------------------- |
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Mar 15 2012, 09:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Bad news from Russian space science program - Izvestia (in Russian language), Google translation.
It looks, that Russian Solar system research is gone for next few years (except cooperation in ExoMars project). -------------------- |
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Mar 16 2012, 08:52 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
And some better news from Russian space program.
Missions are not canceled, but postponed. They want to work on reliability issues, which is good idea. -------------------- |
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