The Discuss link currently goes to August 18 unfortunately.
Re: APOD: Leaving Earth (2019 Aug 25)
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:50 am
by orin stepanek
The view of Earth from space is always very beautiful! A planet worth taking good care of!
Re: APOD: Leaving Earth (2019 Aug 25)
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:16 am
by Roger V
There is a mistake in the description of MESSENGER. It is no longer in orbit around Mercury as stated in the caption. It was destroyed by crashing onto the surface of that planet in April of 2015.
However, the video presented in APOD today is beautiful and awesome.
Re: APOD: Leaving Earth (2019 Aug 25)
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:12 pm
by JohnD
And, quote, "MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that has left and will never return"
If the more than fifty missions to Mars, dozen to Jupiter, score to Venus and handful to Mercury, plus comet and asteroid probes, the landers of all Apollos that touched down, and all the other uncrewed landing and crashing Moon probes, are a "few things that have left and will never return", yes. Otherwise, a bathetic hyperbole.
John
Re: APOD: Leaving Earth (2019 Aug 25)
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 6:52 am
by RET
As already mentioned, there seems to be some old descriptions.
I understand that this article is a repost of 2013 Aug. 5.
May I ask you to edit the followings, when you have time?
* 8 years ago -> in 2005 (or something like this)
* ... currently in the orbit around Mercury and recently concluded the first complete map of the surface -> (appropriately)
* will be crashed -> was crashed (or ...)
kindly regards,
Re: APOD: Leaving Earth (2019 Aug 25)
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:22 pm
by neufer
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
JohnD wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:12 pm
And, quote, "MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that has left and will never return"
If the more than fifty missions to Mars, dozen to Jupiter, score to Venus and handful to Mercury, plus comet and asteroid probes, the landers of all Apollos that touched down, and all the other uncrewed landing and crashing Moon probes, are a "few things that have left and will never return", yes. Otherwise, a bathetic hyperbole.
Most things that "leave the Earth" (e.g., arrows, baseballs, footballs, shuttlecocks, etc.) are expected to return.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=few wrote:
<<few (adj.) Old English feawe (plural; contracted to fea) "not many, a small number; seldom, even a little," from Proto-Germanic *fawaz (source also of Old Saxon fa, Old Frisian fe, Old High German fao, Old Norse far, Danish faa). Always plural in Old English, according to OED "on the analogy of the adverbial fela," meaning "many." Phrase few and far between attested from 1660s. Unusual ironic use in quite a few "many" (1854), earlier a good few (1803).>>
bathetic (adj.) 1834, from bathos on the model of pathetic (q.v.), which, however, does not come directly from pathos, so the formation is either erroneous or humorous. Bathotic (1863, perhaps on model of chaotic) is not much better.>>
Leaving Earth
