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by bystander » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:12 pm
1,000 Featured Images!
NASA | JHU-APL | CIW | MESSENGER | 2013 Sep 10
Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/CIW
On August 3, 2004 the MESSENGER spacecraft blasted off into space from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, entering orbit around the innermost planet some six and a half years later, on March 18, 2011.
Over the course of the mission, the MESSENGER team has been posting Featured Images at regular intervals. The first image was posted in August 2005—and today we've hit 1,000 Featured Images!
This mosaic celebrates the incredible range of images, maps, and other scientific data shared by the MESSENGER team in more than eight years of web postings, but of course contains just a small percentage of the total collection of images now available online. Although we can't list them all, see if you can spot some highlights like the MESSENGER stamp, Mercury's dark and mysterious north pole, the Caloris basin in full color, lava channels, Pantheon Fossae, images of Earth and Venus, and the Cookie Monster!
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by Beyond » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:31 pm
Nope
Didn't see hide nor crumb of the Cookie Monster.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.
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by neufer » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:51 am
Beyond wrote:
Nope
Didn't see hide nor crumb of the Cookie Monster.
Would it help if you were told that Cookie Monster is blue 
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by Beyond » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:46 am
You mean the first column, 4-th one down
NAH
Cookie Monster has a black mouth, and like a black hole, doesn't actually get much of the cookie into it. Talk about a messy feeder
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by neufer » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:49 am
Beyond wrote:
You mean the first column, 4-th one down
NAH
Cookie Monster has a black mouth, and like a black hole,
doesn't actually get much of the cookie into it.
My mistake.
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by Beyond » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:13 pm
Misstake
To err is human, to forgive, divine. I'd quote something from Shakespeare, but nothing comes to mind. This.. fortunately, is the end of my rhyme.
Ah, the Mars Cookie Monster is in black & white. No wonder i missed it.
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by neufer » Thu Sep 12, 2013 3:52 pm
Beyond wrote:
Ah, the Mars Cookie Monster is in black & white.
No wonder i missed it.
By 3 whole planets
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by Beyond » Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:05 pm
Hell, no wonder i missed it. I was lookin in the wrong direction
I guess the Cookie Monster went to bake some cookies.
<--(It blinks if you look long enough)To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.
