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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2008-01-15 07:23 pm

Goodies from Mercury tomorrow

So, the first image from the MESSENGER flyby proper should arrive tomorrow morning: there was a bit of a delay because a problem with the Ulysses solar-polar observing spacecraft bumped MESSENGER off the big dish they were going to use. I hope it's nothing serious; Ulysses has been around for a while but it would be a pity to lose it now, just as the switchover to a new solar cycle happens.