Friday, April 10, 2009

Europa Hard Landers and Penetrators

I have a new post on Europa Hard Landers and Penetrators at http://futureplanets.blogspot.com/2009/04/europa-hard-landers-and-penetrators.html

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting, but I wonder why no mention of any type of lander/impactor/penetrator was made in the EJSM Joint Summary Report. The Titan mission had 3 in situ elements...I always wondered why the Jupiter team left any mention of in situ out of their reports.

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  2. Didn't Mars 96 have two penetrators onboard? IIRC, these were supposed to use the inflatable descent system developed by Lavochkin.

    G. Clark

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