Comet Siding Spring Post-Mars Encounter
Hey Space Placers! Comet Siding Spring - see my last blog - passed Mars yesterday and all 3 NASA orbiting spacecraft are A-OK . I think ESA and India's orbiters are as well as I have not heard anything contrary. Here is a NEAT pic of the comet and Mars from the live Slooh coverage: And a beauty of a pic taken by Nick Howes and the tzecmaun observatory group: It will take a week or so for the data and pics obtained by the orbiting spacecraft and the two rovers on the surface to be downloaded and analyzed. I am sure there will be some good stuff from this historic event. Sky Guy in VA