--- Michael Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This whole Huygens episode considerably exceeded my > expectations. I > half-expected permanent loss of contact within the > atmosphere, or that if it > did communicate on the way down, signals would be > scrambled, and anyway if > it did communicate coherently all the way to the > surface, it would probably > just roll down a slope and bash into something and > die, or if that didn't > happen, the battery would crap out well before the > expected half-hour, or if > that didn't happen, the camera would be face-planted > ....
I keep thinking what a shame it is that the best battery technology we could muster could still could only give us two hours on the surface, and that was exceeding expectations. You want a problem that relates to Europa? There's a problem that relates to Europa. --Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: europa@klx.com Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
