Comments on: Highlights for 2008 http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/ Imaging the bodies of our Solar Sysytem Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Keith http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1680 Keith Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:12:17 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1680 Hi there I was browsing Internet searching for High And Low Highlights For Hair and your blog regarding Highlights for 2008 came my way. Very interesting! You really do know your thing! I\'m gonna bookmark you and come back in a few to see your new posting! Looking forward to! Cheers! Hi there I was browsing Internet searching for High And Low Highlights For Hair and your blog regarding Highlights for 2008 came my way. Very interesting! You really do know your thing! I\’m gonna bookmark you and come back in a few to see your new posting! Looking forward to! Cheers!

]]> By: thomas http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1473 thomas Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:37:09 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1473 huzzah! i beat ye! huzzah! i beat ye!

]]> By: Bill http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1472 Bill Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:09:57 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1472 I was going to do something like this and you beat me to it. It's well done and very useful. I was going to do something like this and you beat me to it. It’s well done and very useful.

]]> By: thomas http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1468 thomas Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:14:41 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1468 funny you should mention. i was just telling someone how i remember reading of the plan to send a probe to Titan when i was around 12. i probably read about it somewhere in “Sky and Telescope” or “Astronomy” magazine. i remember reading about it with wide-eyed excitement and then thinking that 2001 was so far away… i may as well forget about it. little did we all know the shuttle disaster would further delay that mission about 6 additional years. Cassini-Huygens makes me feel older than having a baby did. funny you should mention. i was just telling someone how i remember reading of the plan to send a probe to Titan when i was around 12. i probably read about it somewhere in “Sky and Telescope” or “Astronomy” magazine. i remember reading about it with wide-eyed excitement and then thinking that 2001 was so far away… i may as well forget about it. little did we all know the shuttle disaster would further delay that mission about 6 additional years.

Cassini-Huygens makes me feel older than having a baby did.

]]> By: Gordan http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1467 Gordan Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:50:25 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1467 Sheesh, don't even remind me we're slowly moving towards the end of Cassini's endeavours. I've been following the mission since I first found out about it in high school and basically grew up with it, it's gonna be hard once it's gone. I can't believe it's been almost exactly 4 years since the start of Saturn approach imaging campaign. The years of anxiously waiting to get there, the suspense of orbit insertion, the closest ring images ever seen live as they hit the ground, the first distant Titan flyby... Watching ESA's live coverage of Huygens descent over the NASA web video stream and hearing the report of acquiring the probe's radio signal directly from Earth was very emotional, almost surreal. And that was only me, I had no involvement in the mission. I can only imagine how it felt to the guys behind the probe after years of work and waiting for that moment. I saw at least a few of them shed a tear of happiness at that moment. It's really my favorite mission, truly the last great flagship. It showed what Galileo should have been at Jupiter had THE antenna worked. Sheesh, don’t even remind me we’re slowly moving towards the end of Cassini’s endeavours. I’ve been following the mission since I first found out about it in high school and basically grew up with it, it’s gonna be hard once it’s gone. I can’t believe it’s been almost exactly 4 years since the start of Saturn approach imaging campaign. The years of anxiously waiting to get there, the suspense of orbit insertion, the closest ring images ever seen live as they hit the ground, the first distant Titan flyby…

Watching ESA’s live coverage of Huygens descent over the NASA web video stream and hearing the report of acquiring the probe’s radio signal directly from Earth was very emotional, almost surreal. And that was only me, I had no involvement in the mission. I can only imagine how it felt to the guys behind the probe after years of work and waiting for that moment. I saw at least a few of them shed a tear of happiness at that moment.

It’s really my favorite mission, truly the last great flagship. It showed what Galileo should have been at Jupiter had THE antenna worked.

]]> By: thomas http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1466 thomas Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:04:07 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1466 word up. i thought we had already been in phase two as i already read somewhere that plan 3 is being approved already. word up. i thought we had already been in phase two as i already read somewhere that plan 3 is being approved already.

]]> By: Gordan http://wanderingspace.net/2008/01/highlights-for-2008/#comment-1465 Gordan Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:21:41 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=640#comment-1465 "Oddly there are no other Titan encounters listed on the Cassini website for 2008 beyond this as it represents the end of the extended mission. However, a further extended mission..." End of June 2008 represents the end of *primary* mission and start of the first extended mission. “Oddly there are no other Titan encounters listed on the Cassini website for 2008 beyond this as it represents the end of the extended mission. However, a further extended mission…”

End of June 2008 represents the end of *primary* mission and start of the first extended mission.

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