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

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:36:47 +0000

The images are being sent to Industrial Light and Magic for colourization.

By: Ken B

Ken B — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:31:47 +0000

Don’t buy the “we had a problem with another craft” story. The real problem was that NASA’s art department hasn’t finished their fake “images of Mercury” portfolio on time, and they needed another day.

Just in case:

By: DarkSyde

DarkSyde — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:17:56 +0000

I gotta figure that’s some semi-major [Bad Word deleted by The Bad Astronomer] up on Ulysses to risk that image data. What a drag.