----- Original Message ----- From: James McEnanly To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 7:51 AM Subject: Re: Listening to Europa
Weren't the Deep Space 2 probes on the Mars Polar lander geophones? ______________ No, but they could easily have been adapted to carry geophones -- and, indeed, during an earlier round of Discovery mission selections one proposal called "IMMPACT" would have used DS-2 impactors to lay down a network of 12 to 16 seismometers on Mars. There have also been proposals to lay down a similar network of very small landers on Europa. But, to repeat, the trouble is that such a mission -- quite apart from the fact that it would almost certainly be MORE expensive than Europa Orbiter -- is that it simply cannot begin to do the important thing that Europa Orbiter must do, namely survey as much of Europa's surface as possible for optimal landing sites. == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
