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Cassini Probe Has Camera Problems

Posted by chrisd on from the chris-knight-school-of-optics-clarity dept.

xX_sticky_Xx writes "The BBC is reporting that the last billion dollar NASA probe, Cassini, (enroute to Saturn) is suffering from an unknown source of contamination on its narrow field camera. NASA has attempted to alleviate the contamination, which is causing a haze to appear around images, by "defrosting" it, with so far limited success. Another attempt will be made in January. If this problem can't be resolved this will be extremely disappointing. Cassini is set to expand our knowledge of Saturn more than Galileo did for Jupiter."

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  1. Re:Good old American engineering by SlamMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lets see you send sometihng that size into space, let alone have it actually work at all. If it was actually easy, it would be done.

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  2. blame Microsoft by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    It's Window had a hole or a leak

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