Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids

bigjnsa500 writes "A new space mission concept by the European Space Agency called Deep Interior was unveiled at a Paris conference earlier this week, according to the BBC. Apparently: 'It aims to look inside asteroids to reveal how they are made. Deep Interior would use radar to probe the origin and evolution of two near-Earth objects less than 1km across. The mission, which could launch some time later this decade, would also give clues to how the planets evolved.' NASA also has a similar concept called Deep Impact."

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Re:Point please

[MikeCapone]

Maybe if you don't know what they are doing and why they are doing it, you should read on it instead of saying that because it doesn't immediately jump at you it's pointless.

For an interesting (and fairly simple) read, I suggest Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. It covers many many things including why space exploration is important for us (for example, we found out about the ozone layer and what CFCs were doing by looking at Mars and about the Greenhouse effect by looking at Venus -- stuff that was totally unrelated at first).

Numerous errors in /. story

[barakn]

A new space mission concept by the European Space Agency called Deep Interior was unveiled

The original BBC article was poorly written, but from it we learn something closer to the truth: "A proposal for the project, described here at the Committee on Space Research (Cospar) scientific assembly, was submitted to Nasa two weeks ago." It's a NASA mission, not an ESA mission.

NASA also has a similar concept called Deep Impact

Wrong. The article was comparing an ESA mission called Don Quijote to Deep Impact. Deep Interior and Deep Impact are very different. One will try to blast an enormous crater in an asteroid, and the other will passively scan an asteroid with radar.