13 Jun
2010
13 Jun
'10
6:26 p.m.
Video of this morning's recovery of the Japanese Hayabusa space probe. The audio is in Japanese but video is impressive, showing the "mother ship" burning up and the sample return capsule pressing on to a safe landing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IAX9Hsloq4 Also it's finally stopped raining (so maybe I wont need to build an arc) so I got in some nice HA views of the Sun a few minutes ago. There's a very nice "tree-like" prominence. No sunspots to speak of, just a small cluster about to disappear over the limb. patrick