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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Re: Magellan successors? (was Re: Support Lunar Resource Mapper Too!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.164859.27298@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Jul18.140549.19705@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <19JUL199217191291@judy.uh.edu> <phfrom.204@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1992Jul22.041320.1@fnala.fnal.gov>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:33:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.041320.1@fnala.fnal.gov>, higgins@fnala.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes...
- >
- >I asked Dr. Gordon Pettengill this question last year: "Is there a
- >successor to Magellan?" The answer is no. Magellan is giving such a
- >stupefying quantity of radar mapping data that it will take decades to
- >sort it out, and no system giving, say, higher spatial resolution is
- >currently planned.
-
- The former Soviet Union was planning a Venera mission to Venus around
- the year 2005, but those plans apparently have been dropped. NASA has
- no plans for a followup mission to Venus. Because there won't be any
- more Venus missions for at least 15 to 20 years, this is a good enough
- reason to keep the Magellan mission going as long as possible, and to not
- turn off the spacecraft next May which is what is currently planned.
-
- >I think Mars Observer and Mars 94 are appropriate, but I'm really
- >unhappy about the lack of priority given to studies of small bodies.
- >CRAF is dead, Vesta doesn't look too healthy, and Rosetta seems
- >awfully far away. Maybe there is hope in the new smaller, faster,
- >allegedly-cheaper probes like SDIO's Clementine or the one APL is
- >supposed to be cooking up for NASA (LEAP, was it?).
-
- Galileo's flyby of the asteroid Ida has been approved and will occur
- on August 28, 1993. The proposed NEAR mission has a very high likelyhood
- of being approved and will be launched in 1998 and arrive at the Nereus
- asteroid in 2000.
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