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on Sunday November 22 2015, @10:48PM
from the break-out-the-big-balloons-again dept.
from the break-out-the-big-balloons-again dept.
NASA is very publicly planning a mission to Europa in the 2020s, one that will soar over the intriguing moon dozens of times. Yet the reality is more thrilling. Quietly, the same engineers who masterminded the daring Curiosity landing on Mars in 2012 have been plotting how best to drop a lander onto the nightmare glacier. In early November, they presented their preliminary findings for a 230-kg lander to the one person in the world who can, and who dearly wants to, make that happen.
"I told them to do whatever it takes," said Representative John Culberson after meeting with the NASA scientists. "All of humanity is going to want to know what's under the ice."
The discovery of water on Mars seems to have whetted the appetite.
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Attempt No Landing There? Yeah Right—We’re Going to Europa
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(Score: 1) by snufu on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:39PM
Metric or Imperial?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 23 2015, @12:05AM
Imperial. Metric would have been 1:10:100. :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 23 2015, @01:13AM
Cubits.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Monday November 23 2015, @05:49AM
neither, Standard.