Date: 18/09/2017 14:36:16
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1119242
Subject: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

For 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back captivating observations of Saturn, and its rings and moons, solving some mysteries but raising plenty of new questions. With the spacecraft’s demise on Friday, the stream of data from Saturn has dried up.

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Date: 18/09/2017 16:52:53
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1119265
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

Tau.Neutrino said:


Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

For 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back captivating observations of Saturn, and its rings and moons, solving some mysteries but raising plenty of new questions. With the spacecraft’s demise on Friday, the stream of data from Saturn has dried up.

more…

Do you count five?

1. Quadcopter on Titan
2. Titan orbiter
3. Search for life on Enceladus
4. Dive into Saturn’s atmosphere

What did I miss?

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Date: 18/09/2017 16:58:16
From: Cymek
ID: 1119267
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

mollwollfumble said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

For 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back captivating observations of Saturn, and its rings and moons, solving some mysteries but raising plenty of new questions. With the spacecraft’s demise on Friday, the stream of data from Saturn has dried up.

more…

Do you count five?

1. Quadcopter on Titan
2. Titan orbiter
3. Search for life on Enceladus
4. Dive into Saturn’s atmosphere

What did I miss?

Titan boat ?

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Date: 18/09/2017 17:02:03
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1119268
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

Cymek said:


mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

For 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back captivating observations of Saturn, and its rings and moons, solving some mysteries but raising plenty of new questions. With the spacecraft’s demise on Friday, the stream of data from Saturn has dried up.

more…

Do you count five?

1. Quadcopter on Titan
2. Titan orbiter
3. Search for life on Enceladus
4. Dive into Saturn’s atmosphere

What did I miss?

Titan boat ?

Titan submersible mission would be a good one.

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Date: 18/09/2017 17:05:32
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1119269
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

mollwollfumble said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

For 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back captivating observations of Saturn, and its rings and moons, solving some mysteries but raising plenty of new questions. With the spacecraft’s demise on Friday, the stream of data from Saturn has dried up.

more…

Do you count five?

1. Quadcopter on Titan
2. Titan orbiter
3. Search for life on Enceladus
4. Dive into Saturn’s atmosphere

What did I miss?

3B

NASA is also considering a second Enceladus mission concept called Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability. That team, led by Christopher P. McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., has not talked in public about its proposal.

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Date: 18/09/2017 18:03:10
From: dv
ID: 1119281
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

Yeah sure, go the low hanging fruit. How about a lander on Venus that lasts more than a day?

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Date: 18/09/2017 18:08:39
From: Stumpy_seahorse
ID: 1119283
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

dv said:


Yeah sure, go the low hanging fruit. How about a lander on Venus that lasts more than a day?

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Date: 18/09/2017 20:45:26
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1119349
Subject: re: Back to Saturn? Five Missions Proposed to Follow Cassini

dv said:


Yeah sure, go the low hanging fruit. How about a lander on Venus that lasts more than a day?

Yes please. NASA has funded research into a computer chip that will survive unprotected at the temperatures of Venus surface.

Quadcopter on Venus?

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