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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Mar 11 2006, 11:27 AM
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Somebody -- I can't remember who -- told me at the Europa meeting that, even if the Giotto imaging team hadn't decided to indicate different brightnesses with different colors on the live photos, the unprocessed raw photos wouldn't have shown anything comprehensible to human eyes; it took considerable processing to reveal the nucleus on them. So, even if the images had been displayed in the usual way, Margaret Thatcher presumably wouldn't have seen anything on them and would have thrown her purported temper tantrum that led to Britain largely pulling out of the ESA. One really expects more from a chemist.
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