[meteorite-list] Deep Impact May Never Glimpse Comet Crater

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jul 18 23:09:53 2005
Message-ID: <ftrod1p9ba34v0t5s9eq311qodf0lud2i5_at_4ax.com>

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:13:01 -0700 (PDT), Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>NASA's Deep Impact may fail to live up to its billing as the first
>mission to look inside a comet. Computer processing designed to correct
>the spacecraft's defocused camera cannot fully correct the images taken
>just after impact. If the situation cannot be rectified, there will be
>no way of seeing the newly formed crater - one of the mission's major goals.
>

Don't those idiots at NASA watch CSI? If they can take a VHS tape and zoom in on the reflection in
the mosture of someone's eye and get a crystal-clear mug shot of the murderer, this should be a
piece of cake! All they have to do is say "let's see if I can clean this up", touch a few keys, and
watch a dozen pixels clarify into a clear photo!
Received on Mon 18 Jul 2005 11:15:31 PM PDT