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To: cripplecreek

Yes, and aside from the dust counter and the SWAP particle instrument, the spacecraft is in hibernation until next year’s rehearsal. They just had the three-years-until-encounter party in Boulder last week.


28 posted on 07/17/2012 3:21:56 PM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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To: MikeD

The Mars Science Laboratory will have to tide me over for a while. 19 days and 6 hours to touchdown.

The Dawn spacecraft should be departing Vesta in a few months and heading for Ceres.


29 posted on 07/17/2012 3:35:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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