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[Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington]

1 posted on 06/13/2013 3:29:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the photo, it is exquisite.

I haven’t kept up with the Messenger as much as I should — my uncle is the chief planetary scientist for this mission!! He and my dad grew up DIRT poor in Indiana but were fascinated with outer space and rocketry, and both became rocket scientists. My dad is no longer alive but he worked as a consultant at JPL which I was lucky enough to visit once with him. Since dad died, I haven’t looked through the telescope much or at the constellations, he knew them all. I suppose I should start up again for my own kids...


6 posted on 06/13/2013 5:56:55 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (It was ME. I Let the Dogs Out.)
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