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Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids

Posted by simoniker on from the peek-a-boo dept.

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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  1. Yeah.. but... by Sheepdot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  2. radar vs. ground by huxrules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:I looked into an Asteroids once by iamcf13 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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