Re: Life on Venus is absolute hell, but doable

From: Brad Guth (bradguth_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:49:19 +0000 (UTC)

Russia and ESA are good for go.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=32552
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=64
Venus EXPRESS should help resolve a good number of questions, especially
if that mission accomplishes the 10 meter/pixel resolution radar images
of the elevated sites that could offer the most likelihood of where
other life has been established.

The physics and the science upon proving what's been doable are all
there, and certainly those nice Russians have the delivery capability of
getting this mission on target and way under budget from what our NASA
could ever accomplish.

Too bad America and our NASA is going to look like crapolla, almost as
bad off as our WMD crapolla.

Possibly the Russian side of the Venus EXPRESS mission can help team ESA
and the French contractor as to fine-tune their radar imaging and
deliver the improved resolution capability of what the Magellan
accomplished nearly 15 years before.

In the mean time, a relatively compact TRACE-II mission (Transition
Region and Coronal Explorer) can be sent for station-keeping at Venus
L2, thereby a good 20% closer to our sun, having a 10 fold CCD
resolution capability and perhaps a 4 fold optical advantage over the
original TRACE instrument. Thus a 40 fold improvement for obtaining
what's so critically important about our sun, while also offering itself
as a relay/transceiver and/or transponder on behalf of the nighttime
season of Venus.

http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/trace/
The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer:
http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tracepr2.htm

Of course, Like Hubble and ISS, TRACE is getting old and certainly
outdated, thus at some near point this fine instrument is going off-line
because, TRACE wasn't made to be refueled nor refitted. Of course, TRACE
was also less than moon-dirt cheap to create in the first place, and
relatively efficient as to launch compared to just about everything
else.

The TRACE replacement might become ten fold more robust and thereby a
whole lot more spendy to deploy. Although, along the way in getting
itself into the VL2 sweet-spot there'd be absolutely fantastic downloads
of solar images, thus no wasted research time nor off-line instrument
unless something nasty runs into this replacement instrument.

Perhaps if we can't even manage this TRACE-II, them Russians and their
ESA team partners can manage to accomplish even better optics and by far
the best possible CCD that'll essentially become out of this world.

Regards, Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm 

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