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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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To: cripplecreek

Hopefully a soft rather than hard touchdown — the skycrane scares me!

It’s also 6 weeks until Juno’s Deep Space Maneuver in preparation for the October 2013 Earth flyby.


30 posted on 07/17/2012 7:45:10 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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