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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."
When are they going to send a probe to Uranus?
And I mean that in every nice way possible. There's actually a reason to study some of the moons there.
I don't knw what kind of radar these guys are planning to send. But GPR (ground penetrating radar) only goes a few meters. I seriously doubt that they are going to launch an AGEIS system. All this proves- manned space flight (while possibly silly) is terribly better at geology. Why? We got shovels sukka.
And found a challenging videogame from 1979 with laughably primitive graphics compared to today's braindead fighting/shooting/driving games with their fantastic, lifelike graphics.... :P
The point is that it's raining soup out there in the asteroid belt, and people like you are down here bitching that buckets are too expensive to bother with.
Do a little research to find out the content of a typical asteroid, it's mass, and what that's equivalent to in Earthside ore production and refined metals.
When your jaw quits bouncing off the floor, start pushing for big, manned asteroid missions so we can finally quit raping garden Earth, and in the bargain there will be more than enough resources for everyone to start living like humans should!
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Mal the Elder