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Posted by jburk to Mars Express at June 22, 2004 02:21 PM
The deployment of a radar on Europe's Mars Express probe which is to look for water and ice under the Red Planet has been delayed until later this year. The 40m-long Marsis antenna was due to open out of the spacecraft on 20 April. The delay is linked to concerns that the antenna might swing back with a greater range of motion than expected after opening, hitting the spacecraft.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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Since these photo's are great they do speak volumes but without a second source of independency to give these a second or more views of these. Little will change with the NASA propaganda to discredit them.
Europe's Mars Express is just that reason for why Nasa finally acknowledged the Methane in the Atomoshpere.
The delay may have been asked by the higher ups at Nasa to give the rovers more time to either get in place for the water or mud anouncement with a confirmation by the Mars Express. Who knows all we can do is conjecture unless we have a poultry billion to throw around to build our own explorer probes. Until then we are left up to the trust factor, either way.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at June 23, 2004 05:03 AM
Why the technological delays? The human species is capable to accept the possibility of extant life on another planet within the solar system, that is unique and different from Earth extant life. Maybe NASA wants the glory for Americans and having requested technical delays from the Europeans. While political, cultural, and religious beliefs may differential the human species into territorial boundaries and idealogical kingdoms; the genetic sequences indicate all humans are basically the results of the last 80,000 years of existance.
Terrain or Martian...the quest of future human existance in 2850?
Posted by: Jerry at June 24, 2004 11:20 AM