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Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

zingbot — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:27:20 PDT

God, I love the idea of there being life on one of Saturn/Jupiter's moons.

zingbot

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

Grey_Area — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:20:35 PDT

"...ring to it", HA-HAW! No, it really was clever. I owe you and Charlie a drink or two for all the journalistic spiffiness & entertainment you bring to these tired ol' eyes. Be seeing you (not a stalker).

Grey_Area

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

Annalee Newitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:46:08 PDT

@Grey_Area: Moon jizz has a ring to it, you have to admit.

Annalee Newitz

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

Grey_Area — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:06:15 PDT

@slinted: Very pretty images. A tad disapointed at the lack of lunar money shots this time around.
And "moon jizz"? Honestly! Annalee your gift for language never ceases to amaze, or disturb--I forget which. Perhaps the moon in question should be renames "Ejaculadus".

Grey_Area

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

Annalee Newitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:07:40 PDT

Apparently the probe was unable to transmit information about the particulate matter in the plume. But as you can see, they still got amazing pictures. Another pass through the plumes is also planned, so we may yet get our jizz samples.

Annalee Newitz

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

GenXCub — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:53:01 PDT

Windows Update was trying to run at the same time as the transmission and it corrupted the data.

GenXCub

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

KiddChaos — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:43:06 PDT

Moon Jizz? Is that a scientific term? Can I use that?

KiddChaos

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

pharago — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:20:07 PDT

so what? transmission was interrupted... where are the results from the analysis? lost? that is much more than a simple software 'glitch', this story smells funny, to say the least

pharago

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

QED2006 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:21:17 PDT

@MajorMattMason

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll use that for a note the next time I bring an enchilada to work for lunch and leave it in the office fridge. Or maybe I should wait to use it until 2010 -- much more meta.

QED2006

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

slinted — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:49:46 PDT

Despite the sensational headline, only one instrument (out of seven) failed to record data. Overall, the flyby was a wild success. More images, processed by amateurs from the raw images, can be found here

slinted

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

MajorMattMason — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:45:40 PDT

A mysterious signal was sent that disrupted normal telemetry:

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
EXCEPT ENCELADUS
ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS HERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE

(And spellcheck tried to tell me I was trying to type "ENCHILADAS". Might even be funnier that way...)

MajorMattMason

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

holocron — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:40:16 PDT

I believe it was a software update just prior to the planned fly-thru that caused the communications failure. And by failure, I mean "failure". Seems to me like they were trying to hide something. ;-)

holocron

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

MilesFromNowhere — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:37:58 PDT

More pictures, please.

MilesFromNowhere

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

tetracycloide — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:29:40 PDT

i was really just kidding in my last post about this mission but apparently i jinxed it or something...

tetracycloide

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

Jeff-Minor — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:19:05 PDT

Moon Jizz? Maybe the moon is trying to make babies with the rings. They are pretty sexy.

Jeff-Minor

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

CMG — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:18:40 PDT

mysterious like, 2 seconds of clear transmission, then shaking and static, then - nothing? or was it "oh shit, that blasted transmitter isn't working. we thought this might happen?"

CMG

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

braak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:15:34 PDT

How mysterious a glitch?

braak

Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos

PVIII — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:09:05 PDT

Alien sabotage.

PVIII