"john" <vegan16@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mar 14, 4:42 pm, Robert Clark <rgregorycl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> EE Times: Latest News
>> Software 'hiccup' undermines trip past Saturn moon
>> Reuters
>> EE Times
>> (03/14/2008 9:28 AM EDT)
>> "NASA called the problem "an unexplained software hiccup" that came at
>> a very bad time, preventing Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer instrument
>> from collecting data for about two hours as it flew over the surface
>> of the moon Enceladus Wednesday.
>> "A key objective of the fly-by was to determine the density, size,
>> composition and speed of particles erupting into space from the moon's
>> south pole in a dramatic plume.
>> "Bob Mitchell, Cassini program manager, said the problem meant that
>> the instrument did not collect data as the craft flew through the
>> plume -- a process lasting under a minute.
>> "When it went through the plume, it was not working properly,"
>> Mitchell said in a telephone interview, expressing disappointment. "We
>> had tested that software very carefully. We don't know why it didn't
>> work
>>
properly."http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206903718
>>
>> Reminds me of what happened on Galileo's closest approach to Europa...
>>
>> Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories, alt.sci.planetary,
>> rec.arts.sf.science, sci.astro, sci.geo.geology
>> From: "Robert Clark" <rcl>
>> Date: 1998/11/24
>> Subject: Re: Galileo Update - November 23,
>>
1998http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.science/msg/78afe8d08b13e50c
>>
>> Bob Clark
>
> Also what happened (twice) to the
> Phobos fly-bys.
> John
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