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Originally Posted by John M. Dollan
You should read up on the mission here. I'm sure you'll find that the MRO is much more than a simple piece of eye candy engineering. |
I did, and like I said the Shadar is about the only piece of hardware that seems like a bit of scientifical appealing. The others are either allready availble on mars, or will be better in upcomming missions (like Phoenix for instance). A little repetition is good, but as far as I can see their main targets are just to get some eye-candy
(Daily global mapping and profiling, Regional surveys, Globally distributed targeting of hundreds of specific sites).
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Originally Posted by EFossa
Errrr....... have you seen any of the pictures from Opportunity?, no other location where probes have landed look anything like that, no where on Earth looks like that either.
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Yes so? Should we therefor spend x-illion on sending random missions with little of none scientific value?
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Originally Posted by Efossa
And if you have so little interest in Mars why are you in a Mars forum?  |
Am I not allowed to voice my opinion on various missions? Just because I don't aprove of all missions, and don't have mars on the first spot on *my* priority list doesn't mean I dislike everything about mars.
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Originally Posted by Doodler
Heh, well, considering the evidence, it just might still be immersed, just not in the Terran sense.
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I was more or less joking on the immersed part, plus it gave me a good opertunity to show my " water on mars" picture.
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Originally Posted by Doodler
You come down on the hunt for water, but I remind you that the hunt is not only driving Martian exploration, its also driving Lunar exploration (Clementine, among others) and the proposed JIMO mission back to the Galilean satellites.
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I suppose you are correct here. Maybe I'm just looking to much into this, but I saw it as one of the main reasons to start this mission. Mind you that I didn't mind to say that looking for water is bad.
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Originally Posted by synthomus
It will have instruments for remote chemical analysis. If that's not exciting, then what is?
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MSL for instance to name one is much more packed with various instruments (like Laser Induced Remote Sensing for Chemistry and Micro-Imaging, Mars Hand Lens Imager, Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer, X-Ray Diffraction/X-Ray Fluorescence Instrument, Radiation Assessment Detector, Mars Descent Imager, Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer/Tunable Laser Spectrometer, Pulsed Neutron Source and Detector, Meteorological Package with Ultraviolet Sensor)
I'm sorry but if I look to the future on a short term scale, this mission is pretty nifty. If I look in the long run I hardly see any reason why it should be build.