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May 5 2011, 08:48 PM
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Ahoy mateys!
NASA announces Discovery mission selection for Phase A. Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) is among them. Har! |
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May 16 2011, 01:08 PM
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Except that the vast majority of the data will probably be GCMS results, which are a little less photogenic, albeit very scientifically valuable.
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rlorenz TiME May 5 2011, 08:48 PM
centsworth_II Long may this thread live! To 2023 and beyond... May 5 2011, 09:01 PM
Juramike Whatever floats your boat!
Congratulation... May 5 2011, 09:09 PM
ngunn And a hearty cheer from me. I worked at sea for... May 5 2011, 09:20 PM
Drkskywxlt Congratulations, Ralph, and also to your team! May 5 2011, 11:57 PM
nprev Wow, Ralph, MAJOR congrats!!! This pro... May 6 2011, 12:00 AM
titanicrivers Excellent! Something to really look forward t... May 6 2011, 12:25 AM
punkboi I hope TiME gets chosen in 2016. Outer Planet miss... May 6 2011, 02:11 AM
SFJCody I also prefer TiME to the other candidates. METNET... May 6 2011, 02:27 AM
stevesliva QUOTE (SFJCody @ May 5 2011, 10:27 PM) I ... May 6 2011, 03:47 AM
Juramike QUOTE (SFJCody @ May 5 2011, 09:27 PM) Bu... May 6 2011, 01:37 PM
tfisher I agree: of the three announced candidate missions... May 7 2011, 03:20 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (tfisher @ May 7 2011, 10:20 AM) ..... May 7 2011, 06:19 PM
tfisher Does anyone know what liquid methane/ethane is lik... May 7 2011, 07:39 PM

Juramike QUOTE (tfisher @ May 7 2011, 02:39 PM) Do... May 7 2011, 07:44 PM

rlorenz QUOTE (Juramike @ May 7 2011, 03:44 PM) G... May 8 2011, 12:13 AM

Juramike QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 7 2011, 07:13 PM) [T... May 8 2011, 01:40 AM

jasedm QUOTE (Juramike @ May 8 2011, 02:40 AM) t... May 8 2011, 10:33 AM
ngunn QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 7 2011, 07:19 ... May 7 2011, 09:03 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (ngunn @ May 7 2011, 05:03 PM) I wa... May 7 2011, 09:16 PM
eoincampbell I'm on TiME's side, Ligeia Mare, here we c... May 6 2011, 05:00 AM
antipode I like all the selected missions, but TiME seems s... May 6 2011, 07:12 AM
machi Congratulations Ralph and whole TiME team.
It... May 6 2011, 10:03 AM
djellison Moreover - TiME will be quite a warm thing - so he... May 7 2011, 08:14 PM
nprev When exactly can we expect the final mission selec... May 7 2011, 08:39 PM
nprev Thanks for those slides, Cents.
I'd actually ... May 7 2011, 10:06 PM
DFinfrock QUOTE (nprev @ May 7 2011, 10:06 PM) Than... May 8 2011, 12:33 AM
tedstryk Time seems like quite a timely proposal. Congratu... May 8 2011, 01:35 AM
djellison QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 7 2011, 05:35 PM) a... May 8 2011, 06:47 AM
SFJCody QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 8 2011, 11:35 AM) T... May 8 2011, 06:58 AM
nprev I see that the UMSF bad pun tradition is alive ... May 8 2011, 09:44 AM
brellis QUOTE (nprev @ May 8 2011, 01:44 AM) I... May 8 2011, 03:25 PM
machi It looks (from scheme), that two imaging instrumen... May 8 2011, 01:23 PM
centsworth_II Unfortunately it does look a bit iffy for getting ... May 8 2011, 01:54 PM
ugordan QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 8 2011, 03:54 ... May 8 2011, 02:20 PM
rlorenz QUOTE (ugordan @ May 8 2011, 10:20 AM) Wh... May 8 2011, 03:00 PM

Greg Hullender QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 8 2011, 08:00 AM) a ... May 8 2011, 05:10 PM

eoincampbell QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 8 2011, 07:00 AM) Ho... May 8 2011, 06:57 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (ugordan @ May 8 2011, 09:20 AM) Yo... May 8 2011, 05:33 PM
ugordan I was under the impression the haze doesn't ... May 8 2011, 05:53 PM
nprev Ralph, although I'm sure it's proprietary ... May 8 2011, 09:13 PM
ElkGroveDan All in due...... well, you know. May 8 2011, 09:34 PM
nprev <groan>...walked right into that one! May 8 2011, 09:55 PM
Explorer1 With luck, there should be a naming contest or we... May 8 2011, 11:39 PM
nprev Not a bad point, Explorer, and I think that NH was... May 9 2011, 12:31 AM
DFinfrock QUOTE (nprev @ May 9 2011, 12:31 AM) TiME... May 9 2011, 01:18 AM
polaris QUOTE (DFinfrock @ May 9 2011, 02:18 AM) ... May 11 2011, 02:08 PM
jasedm I vote for Shackleton's ship 'Endurance... May 9 2011, 04:35 PM
dmg QUOTE (jasedm @ May 9 2011, 09:35 AM) I v... May 10 2011, 12:44 PM
MahFL How about "Armada" from "The Spanis... May 10 2011, 01:46 PM
nprev I like "Admunsen"; seems like a very apr... May 10 2011, 10:21 PM
djellison Amundsen and Scott were names for the DS2 micropro... May 10 2011, 11:13 PM
tedstryk QUOTE (djellison @ May 10 2011, 11:13 PM)... May 10 2011, 11:36 PM
djellison QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 10 2011, 03:36 PM) ... May 10 2011, 11:42 PM
elakdawalla QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 10 2011, 03:36 PM) ... May 11 2011, 12:38 AM
nprev Argh...right, right...bummer!
Hmm. Wonder if ... May 10 2011, 11:20 PM
stevesliva Call it the Cuyahoga. Volatile organics and all t... May 10 2011, 11:33 PM
Drkskywxlt How about the Fram?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... May 10 2011, 11:40 PM
Bjorn Jonsson The names of the Vikings that discovered Greenland... May 11 2011, 01:02 AM
djellison Hey - we could call it TiME. May 11 2011, 01:53 AM
tedstryk QUOTE (djellison @ May 11 2011, 01:53 AM)... May 11 2011, 07:09 PM
Astrophil Not an explorer, but – Coleridge: “We were the fir... May 12 2011, 07:58 AM
nprev To be sure. The clock is indeed ticking; to ans... May 11 2011, 01:57 AM
Stu It would never happen in a gazillion years, I... May 11 2011, 02:12 PM
tedstryk Perhaps Champlain would be a good name, since he n... May 11 2011, 05:17 PM
DFinfrock QUOTE (Stu @ May 11 2011, 02:12 PM) It wo... May 13 2011, 01:10 AM
Phil Stooke "Parachute Landing On Puddle"
PLOP... May 12 2011, 11:37 AM
centsworth_II Titanic?
Or -- since Time is a raft -- Kon-Tiki.... May 12 2011, 12:31 PM
titanicrivers How about the good ship ARGO. (I don't have t... May 12 2011, 12:49 PM
remcook QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 12 2011, 12:31... May 12 2011, 02:21 PM
machi Personally I like Fram and Endurance. These names ... May 12 2011, 02:30 PM
ElkGroveDan A ship out on one of the Great Lakes in cold nasty... May 12 2011, 02:30 PM
titanicrivers QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ May 12 2011, 09:30 A... May 12 2011, 02:54 PM
DFinfrock QUOTE (titanicrivers @ May 12 2011, 02:54... May 13 2011, 01:02 AM
AndyG QUOTE (DFinfrock @ May 13 2011, 02:02 AM)... May 13 2011, 10:25 AM

MahFL Cat's are a law unto themselves, ours called ... May 13 2011, 12:55 PM
djellison QUOTE (DFinfrock @ May 12 2011, 06:02 PM)... May 13 2011, 01:39 PM
Paolo a technical question: any idea of the data rate of... May 15 2011, 08:44 AM
Phil Stooke My concern too - coupled with the brief mission af... May 15 2011, 03:49 PM
nprev On the other hand, it's gonna have gobs of pow... May 15 2011, 05:20 PM
mchan Just because TiME will use an ASRG (or two) does n... May 15 2011, 09:11 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (mchan @ May 15 2011, 05:11 PM) ...... May 16 2011, 02:16 PM
Bjorn Jonsson An extremely crude back-of-the-envelope calculatio... May 15 2011, 10:39 PM
ngunn I'm on board. There's no fatal flaw with t... May 15 2011, 10:49 PM
Bjorn Jonsson Thinking more about this, the Galileo LGA might be... May 15 2011, 11:07 PM
stevesliva And of course, as long as the descent imaging and ... May 15 2011, 11:39 PM
machi "any idea of the data rate of TiME and of the... May 15 2011, 11:53 PM
rlorenz QUOTE (JGodbaz @ May 16 2011, 08:08 AM) E... May 17 2011, 05:35 AM
ElkGroveDan QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 16 2011, 09:35 PM) M... May 17 2011, 06:07 AM
rlorenz QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ May 17 2011, 01:07 A... May 19 2011, 03:54 AM
tanjent Good point. Roughly speaking the Earth should be v... May 16 2011, 03:08 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (tanjent @ May 16 2011, 10:08 AM) .... May 16 2011, 04:12 PM
Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 16 2011, 04:12... May 16 2011, 04:41 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ May 16 2011, 12:41... May 16 2011, 04:42 PM
ElkGroveDan I suppose engineering specifics are way down the r... May 16 2011, 03:10 PM
Bjorn Jonsson No, it won't happen (unless you get a *very* l... May 16 2011, 05:02 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ May 16 2011, 12:02... May 16 2011, 08:46 PM
helvick Dan - I wouldn't have thought that sort of tem... May 16 2011, 05:21 PM
nprev One thing to consider is that TiME will require VE... May 17 2011, 12:34 AM![]() ![]() |
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