Re: Titan's paradox

From: Jim Hewitt (jim_hewitt_at_spam)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:44:31 GMT

This is begging the question. You assume that the Huygens probe will make it
to Titan successfully, then you marvel that so many probes to Mars failed.
The Titan probe is only half way there and there are still many things that
could go wrong - though I hope mightily that they won't.

Even if the probe survives its descent, it will not survive very long on
Titan - it wasn't designed to.

But I don't understand your reference to Titan's atmosphere - it's not like
the Martian atmosphere killed the failed Martian probes. _Unless_ you
consider burning up in the atmosphere due to incorrect trajectory caused by
other failures, which could still happen to Huygens, for example, if it's
parachutes fail to deploy.

So I fail to see your point. Do you want to rephrase you statement?

Jim

"Mike Thomas" <Mtom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:t1MEc.34503$l6.30096@clgrps12...
> If the probe to Titan survives and is a success this will really be a
wonder
> as to how so many
> Mars probes have failed considering the obvious atmosphere of Titan.
>
>

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