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ESA has a few instruments mounted on Rosetta too. NASA's: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/microwave-instrument-for-the-rosetta-orbiter-miro/ http://www.jpl.n
by Solarsail 12y ago
ESA has a few instruments mounted on Rosetta too. NASA's: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/microwave-instrument-for-the-rosetta-orbiter-miro/ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/microwave-instrument-for-th...
(Unless this was sarcasm)
- louhike 12y agoDid you misspelled ESA (really this time)? As it is an ESA mission with ESA spacecrafts but there are some NASA instruments.
- danbruc 12y agoDoes it really matter which letters we paint on our spacecrafts?
- alimoeeny 12y agoI think so, it shows which nations spent their tax money on it. Instead of spending it on other things.
- sspiff 12y agoI love paying taxes if the money is used to sent science labs into space.
- DonHopkins 12y agoLike invading Iraq. http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2014/06/27/iraq-opportunity-costs-what-america-could-have-had-if-it-never-invaded/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2014/06/27/iraq-op... 4. A sizable colony on Mars . I got the idea for this commentary from the space section of the wildly popular Reddit web-site. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson posed the question of what could be achieved if all the money spent on wars was instead given to NASA. The resulting exchange was pretty fanciful, but one of the options mentioned might make sense — building a colony on Mars. Mars is the only other truly Earth-like planet in the known universe, it has water and it is reachable. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has claimed that a colony of 80,000 could be established for $36 billion. He tends to hyperbole, so let’s say he is off by an order of magnitude (1000%). We could still create a sizable colony for a fraction of what was spent in Iraq, providing a sanctuary from Earth’s next asteroid hit.
- tomp 12y agoOr using the money that was used to bail out the banks. Just today, I read that Austria spent 19 billion EUR on bailing out Hypo Alpe Adria bank. Use that, and the WhatsApp money, and you have a Mars colony :)
- StavrosK 12y agoEh, I've always considered space missions global. As a European, I consider this "everyone's" mission.
- melling 12y agoGiving credit is a form of gamification. It motivates people, companies, and countries.
- kristopolous 12y agoprobably not as much as where we paint them. ;-)
- Solarsail 12y agoI just worded it that way to point out they both have instruments on it. Sounded like what was important to point out. But yes, NASA has a couple instruments among the many ESA has on it, on an ESA mission.
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