At 09:53 PM 12/9/2003 -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote:
> With its heavy load of instruments, the spacecraft
> would have to be at least 300 feet long.
This HAS to be a misprint. A craft the length of a
football field? Maybe once we build that space
elevator. The whole Saturn V rocket was only 41
Mark Schnitzius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This HAS to be a misprint. A craft the length of afootball field? Maybe once we build that spaceelevator. The whole Saturn V rocket was only 410 feettall. Maybe they're talking about some expandablesections? Surely they're not talking about assemblingit in
> > With its heavy load of instruments, the spacecraft [JIMO]
> > would have to be at least 300 feet long.
>
>
> This HAS to be a misprint. A craft the length of a
> football field? Maybe once we build that space
> elevator. The whole Saturn V rocket was only 410 feet
> tall. Maybe they're
> Scientists envision sending a huge, 300-foot-long,
> nuclear-powered craft -- called JIMO, for Jupiter
> Icy Moons Orbiter -- on a voyage to the Jovian
> neighborhood to spend up to five years circling the
> ice-encrusted moon called Europa, plus two others,
> Callisto and Ganymede, which also a
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/09/MNGON3J5RN1.DTLIn search of life on Jupiter's moons Nuclear-powered spacecraft to scope oceans for organic molecules David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor No sooner had the Galileo spacecraft fascinated the world by discovering a
