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Cassini Glitches

Posted by michael on from the get-out-and-push dept.

byronbussey writes: "After the Mars Lander fiasco and the metric conversion problems the gremlins are not going away for NASA. The Cassini probe which has been taking some awesome pictures of Jupiter, has run into some steering problems."

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  1. Am I the only one that thinks this would be cool? by Smitty825 · · Score: 2

    I personally think that it would be very cool if somehow we could get Cassini to take a photograph of Galieo. Besides the "coolness" factor, if the picture was clear enough, we could see what happens to earths metals when placed in extreme radiation for several years.

    I realize that it would be very difficult to do, though, because Galieo is a very small spaceship compared to Jupiter, it would be very hard to photograph (especially because Cassini is about 6 million miles away), but we would know where Galieo is!

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    Doh!