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What will we know about Titan at the end of the mission?, tieing it all together
craigmcg
post Oct 25 2006, 04:41 PM
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As we see the very cool stuff come in from Cassini, one orbit at a time, I'm curious: at the end of the mission, what will the book on Titan be like?

What kinds of global maps will be available? What gaps will still remain?
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post Oct 27 2006, 11:40 AM
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There will be a huge list of new questions about the chemistry, physics and history of Titan. For other worlds we are used to getting the objective data and reaching broadly settled conclusions perhaps a few years later. This will not happen for Titan as it's just too complex. I think it will take generations to understand how Titan works - most inconvenient from an academic publishing point of view but a wonderful continuing adventure for the science community of the future.
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post Oct 27 2006, 01:47 PM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 27 2006, 05:40 AM) *
I think it will take generations to understand how Titan works - most inconvenient from an academic publishing point of view but a wonderful continuing adventure for the science community of the future.

Yeah. Things would get boring if we figured it all out.
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- craigmcg   What will we know about Titan at the end of the mission?   Oct 25 2006, 04:41 PM
- - Decepticon   It also depends what JPL does in the extended miss...   Oct 26 2006, 08:45 AM
|- - angel1801   I really don't know. But one thing I do know. ...   Oct 26 2006, 03:11 PM
|- - JRehling   The extended mission will not massively increase t...   Oct 26 2006, 05:54 PM
- - Phil Stooke   JRehling has answered this question in terms of im...   Oct 26 2006, 07:48 PM
- - ngunn   There will be a huge list of new questions about t...   Oct 27 2006, 11:40 AM
- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 27 2006, 05:40 AM) I t...   Oct 27 2006, 01:47 PM

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