On Apr 8, 10:21 pm, Craig Fink wrote:
A planetary probe should be able to fly in and sample Saturn's ring material
and analysis it and/or return a sample to Earth. The relative velocity
between the probe and ring material would be almost zero if the probe is
in-plane near circular.

Has anyone proposed or is working on a Saturn Ring Sample mission?
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Craig Fink
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That's an interesting thought. It's hard to believe no one has ever
considered it, but I try to be well-read on space science, and I've
never heard of a proposal to do that. Possibly it's felt that fly-bys
have analyzed it sufficiently.
Matt Bille