From: "John Beamish" 

Mars:  nearby, may have supported life at one time, potential manned mission.

Rhea:  will probably melt during the descent phase.

I'm both surprised and not surprised that you didn't find anything.  The
"surprised" comes from "this is a classic shot, we have to
take it" during mission planning; the "not surprised" comes
from "the mid-course corrections needed to align everything are too
costly in terms of fuel so we simply can't do it."

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:21:28 -0400, Geo.  wrote:

> Ok wait a minute. Landing 2 probes on mars, which is basically just a
> bunch of dry lifeless rocks, this is worth the effort but landing a
> probe on say Rhea which is 2/3rds water ice this isn't worth the effort?
> They are on mars looking for ice and would be thrilled to actually find
> some because it means there might be life but here is a moon that is
> mostly ice and it's not worth a look? I don't think so.. 
>
> I have found nothing in nasa's inventory like the standard scifi ringed
> planetrise type pictures except for the earth rising over the moon.
>

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