Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Mar 10 2006, 09:20 AM
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Giotto’s brief encounter
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSZ0NVGJE_index_0.html Twenty years ago, in the night between 13 and 14 March 1986, ESA’s Giotto spacecraft encountered Comet Halley. |
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Nov 8 2007, 06:05 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
The Giotto encounter... wow, there was a night... I remember watching it on TV, with Patrick Moore hosting a show on BBC2 which was going to show the images coming in from Giotto live as they were received. My family wanted to watch something on another channel, and we had no VCR at the time, so I was left to keep flicking channels whenever I got the chance until the ITV program finished then I was able to watch the Giotto broadcast.... lots of tense build-up to the appearance of the close approach pictures... The approach pics were good, showing the shape of the nucleus, but we all wanted to see the closest images...
Then they appeared, and showed - well, no-one knew what the hell they showed to be honest! They looked a bit psychedelic to me, a colourful mishmash of no-idea-what... cue lots of puzzled looks from my family as they asked me what they were seeing and I had to admit I really had no idea! -------------------- |
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Nov 9 2007, 01:56 PM
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