On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote:
I keep thinking what a shame it is that the best
battery technology we could muster could still could
This wasn't a radioisotope battery, obviously.
It's a damn shame, the next probe may well get lost.
only give us two hours
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote:
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.
If politics
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote:
I keep thinking what a shame it is that the best
battery technology we could muster could still could
This wasn't a radioisotope battery, obviously.
It's a damn shame, the next probe may well get lost.
only give us two hours on
, but we've got a good planet
for experimenting with that, cheaply: our own.
-michael turner
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- Original Message -
From: Gary McMurtry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: europa@klx.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [esa_general] Stunning new images of Titan
--- 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
--- 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
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.
Gary McMurtry responds:
I can think of several ways in which this is good
news for Europa missions:
The tax-paying public finds out that
- outer-planet moons can be worlds, not just
satellites
- outer-planet probes that land on moons can be
exciting
- at least one moon has large bodies of liquid
SOMETHING,
