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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Mt Shasta on Uranian moon!!
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 13:33:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 13:33:43 1986
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> Voyager 2 has discovered a 3-mile-tall mountain on a moon of Uranus.
. . .
> hot then by bombarding everything in sight (layman's opinion again). So, what
> do the rest of you think, volcano as I claim?, extinct as I guess?, what kind
> of lava do you guess?, how long since active?
	Are you certain it's a volcano?  I've not seen the imagery
	(no TV and the print media have not had detailed images).
	No offense, but most lay people could not recognize a volcano
	other than pure cinder cones.  Was it a profile (how did you get
	3 miles?)? or face into the crater  or peak (I assume)?
	did it have obvious flows.  I walk over to our auditorium and they
	are televising clean room shots of some circular hatch: they say
	they are making history ... :-) [people crawling in and out
	the shuttle). When are they going to make channels for for
	something important? ...  Guess I have to find a tube.

> When are we gonna get that damn ion rocket developed so we can send
> Mariner/Viking/Galileo-class spacecraft (orbiter/lander). . .

	I refer you to James van Allen's article in Sci. Amer. a
	month or two back.  The rocket's been developed years ago
	the question is when are we going to get the money to
	send it up?  [obvious pilot light]: A mission would cost a
	fraction of the SDI program, the space station, or a carrier
	battle group.  Viking, BTW, is an order or magnitude more
	than other missions if you consider the lander technology.

	Planetary wish list:
		International Solar polar
		Comet rendevzous
		Stellar/solar wind sampler
		Mercury sample mission
		Venus mapper, atmospheric sampler
		Earth --? no intelligent life there :-)
		Moon -- polar orbiter, sampler missions
		Mars -- polar orbiter and sampler missions, mars moon missions
		astroid sampler missions
		Jovian sampler missions to Europa and I/O
		Saturn -- Titan orbiter, imager, atmospheric sampler.
		Uranian -- your suggestions

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--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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