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First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne"

Posted by kdawson on from the down-in-flames-seventy-five-km-up dept.

White Yeti writes with news of the reentry breakup of the ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle. All went as planned, and the ESA blog has preliminary photos. An international team of observers, in two aircraft south of Tahiti, saw a series of explosions and over a hundred small pieces of debris. Observations were mostly made using optical cameras and spectrographs. The two images on the ESA site are low-res samples, so we should get more spectacular images soon.

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  1. Camera phone funding by MosesJones · · Score: 3, Funny

    this is the "Hi res" 28k JPG image on the site. Anyone else get the feeling that they rushed up there to watch it and then someone said "I thought you said you'd bring the cameras" so it was then out with the mobile phones.

    The only real surprise is that these clips didn't hit Youtube first with a Tramps "Disco Inferno" sound track. Very cool stuff and it practically demands HD for a fireworks display with a billion dollar budget

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  2. Why explode? by juletre · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why was an explosion a success? I would think getting it the ground in one piece would be better, but what do I know.

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  3. So that's what it looks like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So that's what it looks like when we bring down a goa'uld mothership... neat.