Scientists find silver lining on botched sun mission. 03/03/2005. ABC News Online:
"Scientists analysing the remains of a NASA satellite designed to capture particles blown into space by the sun say they have managed to salvage useful data even though the probe crashed into the desert on its return to Earth."
That must be incredibly frustrating , especially in a day and age where information about the sun and solar wind would help so much towards helping us find the answers to our severe weather. I mean that was 3 years of data and then all that expense launching it and keeping it up there. Worse than tipping your chocolate cake on the floor when you get it out of the oven. It's good they got some information and it's good it came down in Utah so they could just get on with the salvaging in their own country. They might not have been able to have salvaged so much if it had come down elsewhere or in the sea. So it wasn't all bad...just bad enough!
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