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Meet Orbilander, a Mission to Search for Life on Enceladus:
NASA's Cassini spacecraft left a legacy of discoveries behind when its 13-year-mission to Saturn ended in 2017. One of the biggest findings: the icy Moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean that vents water into space. Fissures slashed across the south pole have temperatures warm enough to suggest the ocean is being heated by the moon's core. On Earth, similar spots called hydrothermal vents are hotspots for life.
A team of scientists and engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland are pitching NASA a mission that would take a closer look. It's called Orbilander—named for its ability to function as both an orbiter and a lander. Orbilander's mission is geared towards a single question: is there life on Enceladus?
"We know there is a subsurface ocean, and we have every reason to suspect it is habitable," said Shannon MacKenzie, a planetary scientist and the lead author of the Orbilander mission concept study. "We have the technology to go and sample it, thanks to the plumes."
Many Cassini mission scientists have endorsed the idea of an Enceladus followup mission. While previous Enceladus concepts have been pitched for NASA's lower-cost Discovery and New Frontiers programs, MacKenzie's team is calling for a flagship mission with a price tag of $2.5 billion. Orbilander is a flagship mission concept being studied for the next planetary science decadal survey, a community-authored report produced every 10 years to guide NASA mission priorities.
"The Enceladus community went into this program of mission concept studies assessing what a flagship mission to this moon would look like, especially if we focused on the next—and I would argue, obvious—science question at Enceladus: is it inhabited?" MacKenzie said.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Saturday October 10 2020, @09:51AM (2 children)
i gotta wonder how your autistic ass found his way from slashdot to here. you weren't here a year or two ago. have you tried pipedot? have you tried dick? are you a nigger? are you a gay nigger?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by inertnet on Saturday October 10 2020, @11:02AM (1 child)
Not autistic, rather he should change his name from APK to NPA [homestead.com] (Narcissistic-perfectionist-aggressive). Some presidents seem to suffer from it too, but things can get really bad if they get organized, like what happened in Germany in the first half of the 20th century.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Saturday October 10 2020, @07:16PM
I disagree on every point here... Narcissistic - the guy sounds more like a nerd loser, and older one too at this point, who talks like an apologetic chinaman. That ain't narcissism. Perfectionist? He's been pushing the same kid-level 1 page perl script for like a decade now. That's not perfection - he keeps patching it and making new releases because he has a learning disability. The aggressive thing I'm not seeing at all. Talks very awkwardly and gets "stuck" on side tracks a lot, but not in any kind of a powerful way. This is definitely autism.
But what happened in Germany is an interesting topic where I likely have a fairly unique viewpoint, being a russian jew. WW1 started not due to people being organized, but because euros have been lightly slapping each other for a long time, and then the powder keg has had enough. WW2 was not because anyone bad got organized. It's because idiot populations don't understand that countries, corporations, and races aren't a real thing. They are concepts smart humans came up with, to which dumb humans assign the traits of a person.
In america, we have niggers thinking they are owed money for injustice carried out on people they've never met. In Israel we have arabic jews thinking they are owed land because people they've never met once lived there. And in Europe, they thought germans who never did anyone anything bad during ww1, because they weren't born yet, owe them half of their salary for the damage other people caused in ww1. WW2 was caused by the winners of WW1 punishing innocent people. The whole extermination of the jews thing, and mind you I'm a jew, is also warped from the modern viewpoint.
You know how all the large banks are corrupt, steal people's money, and do everything in their power to make everyone poor? You know how they have bad loans designed to take your house away? You know how they take free federal bailout money at 0% interest, and lend it back out at 3.5% to people, instead of the government just directly giving that money to the people at 0%? We had some peaceful stoners protesting against that not too long ago. That's what the banks did back then too. And all the banks were owned by the jews. That's not all the jews did for a living, but it's what caused the holocaust - the jews who were bankers.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday October 10 2020, @12:30PM
I'm not clicking that. I imagine it's either child porn or a drive-shredding virus, knowing the kind of person you are.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday October 10 2020, @09:48AM
let's see, how much did trump redirect from the army to the mehican wall? oh, that's right, 4 billion. that's clearly 4 billion that can be cut from their annual budget, since they clearly didn't need it. I say let's launch two of these probes. per year.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Saturday October 10 2020, @12:23PM
All these worlds are yours, except one: Europa... Europa and Mars... except two: Europa, Mars, and the clouds of Venus... except three: Europa, Mars, the clouds of Venus, and Enceladus... except four... no... amongst the worlds that are not yours are such places as Europa, Mars... I'll come again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 10 2020, @10:02PM
Why go that far when you can observe new life developing in Enchiladas?