[Chaos-l] Earth from Mercury

[Terry Crook]

Open the long URL to get the whole webpage. The Tiny URL only shows the 
photo.

Enlarge the photo to see the cosmic ray streaks. There are just a few, 
one large one (may not be a cosmic ray track?).
The text below the photo identifies the constellations as Libra & 
Scorpius as well as describes the purpose of the photos (Vulcanoid  
detection & tracking).

As Arte Johnson would have said "Velly In-ter-es-ting!  (_Laugh In_, 
late 70s/early 80s on NBC)

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W

On 3/23/2011 6:17 PM, walter fowler wrote:
> I give up.  What is the constellation?  I have a feeling there are a 
> lot more stars in the image than I can see from my house.  Of course, 
> I couldn't see the streaks, either.  Maybe I should take off my 
> sunglasses.  Walter
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rtphokie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Messenger, which entered Mercury orbit last Friday, returned a
>     beautiful photo of Earth and the moon, see if you can pick out the
>     constilation behind them.  Also note the streaks, those aren't created
>     by a long exposure, they are cosmic rays hitting Messenger's camera.
>
>     http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=388
>     <http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=388>
>
>     or
>
>     http://bit.ly/fvgctx
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