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Solar flares causing havoc not only around Earth....
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Ah well.
As long as nothing else goes wrong. I suppose we should be thankful it's not more serious.
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down. - Rita Rudner
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Odyssey has been a fantastic mission up until now. Hope it keeps functioning for a bit longer, though. It's a valuable asset for Mars exploration: as the article stated, it has still a critical mission to accomplish: data-relay for Beagle 2...
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it has still a critical mission to accomplish: data-relay for Beagle 2...
*Yes...and hopefully that portion of the mission will succeed despite the damage incurred.
The BBC really has excellent articles; I almost prefer their science coverage to Yahoo!
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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