@mike_malaska@deepspace.social
2026-05-23 18:13 UTC
The implication of this is that the key delivery of missions is the full and complete organic inventory so that it can be compared to other organic inventory datasets from other places and other worlds.
As a specific example, an astrobiology mission to Enceladus that does onboard processingusing AI and returns a "yes! We have evidence for life and ONLY send back the data that supports that may win the battle (yay!!), but lose the war (booooo!!!).
You need as full a dataset as possible.
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@mike_malaska@deepspace.social 2026-05-23 18:16
That also means that Enceladus flyby, or Orbilander mission, is a precursor mission. There will always be that need to drill all the way down to the deep subsurface ocean to get that chemical inventory. The deep drill mission won't happen in my lifetime. But we are building the cathedral.