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post Apr 12 2009, 10:08 PM
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That really is an amazing shot!


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post Sep 29 2010, 07:46 PM
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There was an interesting result by STEREO reported in arXiv a few days ago http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2710
STEREO A has managed to detect for the first time some sort of activity or gas release on the near Earth asteroid Phaethon, long suspected to be an extinct comet because it shares the orbit with a meteor stream
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post Oct 10 2010, 08:13 AM
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This seems to have gone unnoticed: http://sirius.bu.edu/News/
STEREO A has photographed the comet-like tail of Mercury. and it was noticed by an amateur accessing STEREO images!
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post Oct 10 2010, 05:11 PM
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Interesting to see the tail and the solar corona wafting by in the animation. Would this increase the odds for aurorae on Mercury?


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post Oct 10 2010, 05:43 PM
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Probably not. The tail is point away from the sun in an elongated teardrop-like shape. Very little (if any) of the tail is present at a high or low enough latitude for ions to interact with the tail. I suppose it could be possible to see some very faint aurora if the tail were pointing toward the sun. However, the tail is extremely thin and its likely there wouldn't be enough diffusion/inhibitance within it to produce auroras in Mercury's already lightweight magnetosphere.

What would be incredible to see though is if very faint aurora could be produced on the surface in some way. Possibly it could look like the rainbow colors in a soap bubble? We honestly don't understand magnetospheres very well, especially around terrestrial bodies, Mercury being the only other planet aside from Earth to have one in our solar system. Messenger will definitely answer a lot of questions and expand a lot in the ways of knowledge.


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post Oct 11 2010, 12:50 PM
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This brings to my mind the question of whether this might lead to indirect detection of the existence of sub-mercurial asteroids.
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post Oct 11 2010, 01:43 PM
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I can't see how you could detect such asteroids when the tail itself is many times less bright than the parent object. Scattered light would be a pain.


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post May 3 2014, 11:47 AM
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Stereo continues to find out new things about solar and plasma physics


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post Oct 8 2014, 02:19 PM
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contact with STEREO-Behind was lost last October 1
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/new.shtml

I was reading of their plans for next year's solar conjunction. very interesting, although it almost went unnoticed:
Important Notice About Reduced STEREO Science Operations
Planned Science Data During Reduced STEREO Science Operations
NASA's STEREO Entering New Stage of Operations
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post Dec 14 2015, 03:23 PM
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Recovery attempts continue, even a year later!
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-nasa-stereo-b...d-recovery.html
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post Aug 22 2016, 11:23 PM
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The recovery attempts were quite possibly successful!

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/n...-stereo-mission
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post Apr 23 2017, 05:54 AM
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I've been hoping for this for months. Fantastic.
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post Apr 23 2017, 06:51 AM
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QUOTE (monty python @ Apr 22 2017, 09:54 PM) *
I've been hoping for this for months. Fantastic.

Umm, you were responding to a post nearly a year old. The recovery attempt back in 2016 didn't succeed and the spacecraft is still out of contact. https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/behind_status.shtml


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post Apr 24 2017, 05:50 AM
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Oops. I just wish I hadn't drunk all that cough syrup last night, ya know. :-)
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post Sep 25 2017, 03:28 PM
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Just checked DSN as per my habit, surprised to see contact with B! (here's a link to a Twitter account that archives DSN status, for anyone who checks later):
https://twitter.com/dsn_status/status/912295068177924097

And another from the 22nd : https://twitter.com/dsn_status/status/911340950517161984
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