Re: Titan's paradox

From: Anthony Garcia (axgarciaz65_at_go.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:44:21 GMT

"Jim Hewitt" <jim_hewitt@spam begone.hp.com> wrote in message
news:34YEc.5184$B_2.4505@news.cpqcorp.net...

[snip]

> 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

[snip]

If I may interject ...

It is arguable that Beagle 2 may have died and Spirit nearly did so
because the atmosphere was not sufficiently characterized so that the
landers would not impact at too high of a velocity.

- Anthony

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