Phoenix Site Options

[remcook]

did it got mentioned that the site was launched last week or so?


http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/

[RNeuhaus]

I think that the "main problem" of the Phoenix Mission is the budget restriction. I am sad of this. It is like to take a very expensive trip to a very exotic place at another side of Earth to visit only for 3 days instead of one month in order to be satisfied with the spent money.

So that Phoenix mission would be more worth is that it can

1) last longer than few months, perhaps one to two Mars years to work as a full edition meteorological and seissmic station,
2) be able to drill as deep as many meters,
3) by able to hop to a another close interesting place (remains fuel will freeze???, what happens with during its cruise travel to Mars for many months in a very cold space -don't really know what is the real Kevin temperature is in the space- without freezing the fuel?? as Doug has said previously).

Rodolfo

[djellison]

1) last longer than few months, perhaps one to two Mars years to work as a full edition meteorological and seissmic station, 
2) be able to drill as deep as many meters,
3) by able to hop to a another close interesting place (remains fuel will freeze???, what happens with during its cruise travel to Mars for many months in a very cold space -don't really know what is the real Kevin temperature is in the space- without freezing the fuel?? as Doug has said previously).

Rodolfo

1) Cant happen with solar power - you'd need a big, heavy, unavailable, expensive RTG.

2) You'd need a much larger spacecraft to do that

3) All sorts of reasons why phoenix cant do that

What're you suggesting isnt changed to Phoneix - is a $1Bn mission all of its own called Mars Deep Drill

Doug