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What if I were designing Huygens II
If I were designing the nex Titan mission
I would go for a hydrogen balloon. It would not explode on Titan. I like the idea of wind power. At the temperature on Titan, the atmosphere would be about 6 times as dense as earths, making it simpler to make a balloon, propellor or kite. It may take a bit of research to make electronics that can work at the ambient temperature, but the high temperature superconductors could be operating at Titan's temperature. Being a radio enthuiast I would send a radio. THe Ionosphere on Titan may only reflect frequencies up to a few hudred kilohertz, so a VLF & LF receiver, and a sensitive magnetometer for the ELF could determine if there was lightning, aurora, or other interactions with the solar wind. Machine civilizations may be detected also - if they were there. |
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