Comments on: MESSENGER update from Emily

By: DavidHW

DavidHW — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:06:08 +0000

Oh, Lord. There’s a vaguely hexagonal area in the upper right of that photo. See it? Hoagland will be on CtC tonight for sure.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:47:24 +0000

“Whats worth having, is worth waiting for”

I have viewed the first image already with that old fashioned sense of awe that used to happen with Pioneer, Voyager, etc. etc…

It is hard to imagine a traffic jam caused by those deep space probe extraterrestrial signals looking for a parking space on a terrestrial dish. What ever happed to reservations in advance.

Thanks for the heads up on the down link status of Messenger.

By: AJ Milne

AJ Milne — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:14:09 +0000

Fixed link for mission page:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html

By: AJ Milne

AJ Milne — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:01:41 +0000

Dammit. Broken link.

Image itself is directly at http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/208455main_messenger_mercury_lg.jpg

By: AJ Milne

AJ Milne — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:01:03 +0000

There’s an image up now. See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html.

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:37:03 +0000

I’m surprised Ulysses is still going. Very much like the trials and tribulations of the hero.

By: blizno

blizno — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:47:37 +0000

The delay is because there were lots more ancient ruins on Mercury than NASA expected and they’re hustling to cover them up before the images go public.

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=40929