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 Apr 10 2005, 02:37 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1279 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114  |
I'm already looking forward to the extended mission. And one target I hope gets a closer look at is Iapetus.
(And yes I understand money and fuel are issues when it comes to this.) Close Ups of the that ridge would be very interesting. Along with some Radar Observations. Another reason is to get as much mapping done on all the major moons. What would you like to see in the extended mission? |
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Apr 22 2005, 12:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1279 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
Even if Pioneer did fly close to the rings, its imager was not the best for observing such small particles.
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Apr 22 2005, 01:05 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4408 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
True, Pioneer didn't have imaging capability worth squat. But it had great particle and fields instruments. I think they should have risked it.
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Jan 5 2006, 05:52 PM
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NASA Considering Extending Cassini Mission Through 2010
By Jefferson Morris 12/27/2005 08:57:09 AM NASA is considering a two-year extension to the Cassini mission that would extend the probe's exploration of Saturn and its moons through 2010. "NASA has given us some additional funding to study what the options would be" for the extra two years, said Bob Mitchell, Cassini program manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "About a year from now, I'm expecting that NASA will give us an [answer] one way or the other." http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/chan...s/CASS12275.xml -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Decepticon Extended Mission Discussion Apr 10 2005, 02:37 PM
Jeff7 Probably just a continuation of the primary missio... Apr 10 2005, 02:46 PM djellison Cunning flybys and aerobraking into titanian orbit... Apr 10 2005, 02:53 PM cIclops QUOTE (Decepticon @ Apr 10 2005, 02:37 PM)Wha... Apr 10 2005, 03:01 PM Gsnorgathon Well, here's the trick: "More of the same... Apr 10 2005, 06:29 PM
Decepticon QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Apr 10 2005, 01:29 PM)Or... Apr 10 2005, 07:23 PM Jeff7 QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Apr 10 2005, 01:29 PM)We... Apr 10 2005, 08:50 PM
paxdan QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Apr 10 2005, 07:29 PM)I... Apr 11 2005, 08:29 AM cIclops ... another close look at Phoebe, is it a Kuiper b... Apr 10 2005, 08:43 PM Phil Stooke I understand that Cassini is not sterilized to a h... Apr 10 2005, 09:26 PM Jeff7 I figure they'd probably sooner plunge Cassini... Apr 11 2005, 02:59 PM BruceMoomaw Cassini manager Bob Mitchell has just informed me ... Apr 12 2005, 12:11 AM PaleBlueDot if i rember correctly, i read a while back on cass... Apr 19 2005, 12:12 AM Marcel QUOTE (PaleBlueDot @ Apr 19 2005, 12:12 AM)if... Apr 19 2005, 10:59 AM Bjorn Jonsson Escaping Saturn for a later planetary flyby isn... Apr 19 2005, 02:46 PM Jeff7 QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Apr 19 2005, 09:46 AM)... Apr 19 2005, 04:05 PM volcanopele I've heard nothing seriously discussed regardi... Apr 19 2005, 06:51 PM Gilles My first time on this chat... It looks great and ... Apr 21 2005, 04:32 PM Redstone What is the feasiblity of passing through the Cass... Apr 21 2005, 10:43 PM Decepticon ^^No Way!
Any risk is to much.
QUOTE (Redst... Apr 22 2005, 01:10 AM tedstryk It is a shame the NASA brass didn't let Pionee... Apr 22 2005, 03:18 AM deglr6328 QUOTE (tedstryk @ Apr 22 2005, 03:18 AM)It is... Apr 22 2005, 06:55 AM BruceMoomaw Nope -- Cassini flew through the ring plane twice ... Apr 22 2005, 10:31 AM BruceMoomaw Nope -- Cassini flew through the ring plane twice ... Apr 22 2005, 10:34 AM antoniseb QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 5 2006, 12:52 PM)NAS... Jan 6 2006, 01:34 PM Cugel QUOTE (antoniseb @ Jan 6 2006, 01:34 PM)Looki... Jan 6 2006, 04:03 PM tty QUOTE (Cugel @ Jan 6 2006, 06:03 PM)That is n... Jan 6 2006, 05:04 PM |
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