Re: messenger arrives while mercury at maximum enlongation
- From: laura halliday <marsgal42@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:49:46 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 26, 10:58 am, mack <jm...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sighting Mercury earlier this week, while it was at maximum
elongation from the sun, it occured to me that the arrival
of Messenger at the same time, would not have been coincidence,
but so that the antennas on earth receiving data from the
spacecraft would receive the minimum sun noise.
Anyone know if this is true, or it was coincidence?
(snip...)
It seems an entirely reasonable thing to do. People
at NASA are paid to think these things through,
to an extent that is sometimes scary.
...laura
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