SMART-1 Apollo 11 release |
SMART-1 Apollo 11 release |
Jul 21 2006, 05:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
The SMART-1 team has released an image of the Apollo 11 landing site:
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM1O6BUQPE_index_1.html for the 37th anniversary of the landing. In the release, they label two craters as Aldrin and Collins, with a mention of a third crater, Armstrong, off frame. It is my understanding that one has to be deceased in order for surface features on other worlds to be named after you... -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Jul 22 2006, 05:51 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
The pixel dimension doesn't have a one-to -one correspondence with the magnitude of the achievement...happy belated 1ML Day, everyone!
Wish that I could live long enough to see the Apollo 11 site preserved & enshrined as a monument for all humanity...in a thousand years or so, this landing may well be all that school=children somewhere else remember about the existence of the United States (or even the Earth itself?) for their tests....talk about profound! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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