[meteorite-list] OT: Earth and Moon Image

From: Ryan Darby <rdarby_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:43 2004
Message-ID: <9CA31A462625B047BD8647980CB556CD2CAC72_at_iserver.COMLABS.COM.AU>

The spacecraft was named after the miner's daughter in the old ballad
'My Darlin' Clementine'. This seemed appropriate since one of the
spacecraft's major tasks would be to determine the mineral content of
the Moon and an asteroid. And, as in the song, after the asteroid flyby,
Clementine was to be 'lost and gone for ever'.

-----Original Message-----
From: walter branch [mailto:branchw_at_bellsouth.net]=20
Sent: Friday, 23 May 2003 12:13 PM
To: almitt
Cc: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Earth and Moon Image

Hi Al,

Clementine (I would love to hear how that one was named)
was a lunar mapping (and eventually lunar crashing) mission, so
an image of the earth-moon system together would have been
somewhat difficult.

The mission you are referring to was Galileo, which took
an image of the earth-moon while it was using an Earth
flyby as a gravitational boost enrout to Jupiter.

Here is the image:
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journey-cruise.html

This one from Mars is the first taken from a spacecraft in orbit
around another planet.

Best wishes,

-Walter

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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "almitt" <almitt_at_kconline.com>
To: "walter branch" <branchw_at_bellsouth.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Earth and Moon Image


> Hi Walter and all,
>
> I can't remember the name of the spacecraft (Ron Baalke may know), but
I
think it
> might have been clementine took a similar photo of the Earth and Moon
together, on its
> mission which has been a few years back now. Certainly wasn't as nice
as
this recent
> photo though. Thanks for sharing it!!
>
> --AL
>
> walter branch wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Take a look at this image of the earth and moon,
> > as captured by the Mars orbiting Mars Global
> > Surveyor. The first of it's kind.
> >
> >
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/22may_alienearth.htm?list863197
> >
> > -Walter
>
>


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