Re: Huygens shortlived?

From: Mighty Krell (themightykrell_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:30:11 GMT

"Tkalbfus1" <tkalbfus1@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20050117114942.25385.00000063@mb-m13.aol.com...
> Huygens was European, and the Europeans on that project bowed to
anti-nuclear
> groups and did not include a radio-thermal nuclear generator. The result
is a
> short-lived probe similar to the Soviet Venus landers. It took 8 years to
get
> the probe there, and when we did, we got pictures of rocks on the surface
that
> we can't examine more closely since the power source of the probe only had
10
> minutes of life left in it.

How much of Cassini are you willing to sacrifice so that it can carry a
larger, heavier Huygens probe?

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