Discovery is NEAR...
Feb. 11th, 2001 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpApart from the daily summary from the Russian side, all is fairly quiet, mission-wise. There are a number of system-level briefings to review, but there are only so many technical documents you can review before your head starts to swim.
A short jaunt to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous site shows that the planned landing of the NEAR Shoemaker probe on the asteroid Eros is scheduled for just under 36 hours from now. The descent to the surface will, besides leaving a human artifact on another (small) world, provide some really spectacular images of the surface of the asteroid from really close up.
Ah, well...back to boning up on the Service Module software upgrade.
Cheers...
A short jaunt to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous site shows that the planned landing of the NEAR Shoemaker probe on the asteroid Eros is scheduled for just under 36 hours from now. The descent to the surface will, besides leaving a human artifact on another (small) world, provide some really spectacular images of the surface of the asteroid from really close up.
Ah, well...back to boning up on the Service Module software upgrade.
Cheers...
