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Marc 182 wrote:
So long as I'm dreaming here, and discarding everything else I've said, it would have been nice if they had just programmed the gas chromatograph to make one more run starting at the end of the nominal mission, 180 seconds after landing. That hot spacecraft ("hot" being a very relative term here) was probably boiling all kinds of interesting stuff off of the surface and a GC is great at unambiguous identification of organics. Yes, that'd be great. Do you think you could tell EAS about this? http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMK...ndex_0.html#O9 would be a start. But, of course, they never expected it to live for any length of time on the surface... or did they? I wonder what the thinking was when they slipped in the big batteries. There's lots of things you can do with spare power. Maybe boost something, do more software upgrades, show pictures from the stars if the mission would have been impossible and huygend had to be jettisoned into another direction, whatever. Maybe they would have been able to reprogram the probe and send half an hour later if they had to change cassinis orbit for some reason. Remember the approach actually taken wasn't the plan either. Lots of Greetings! Volker |
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