STS60, thanks a lot for your replies. Besides Nicolas in the first page, (BertL and JayUtah to some extent also), you were the only poster to really REPLY to my article.
Well, I'm trying to reply to you. But exactly what I'm addressing is not yet clear to me, which is why I've asked
the list of clarifying questions in post 71.
Now first of all: don't mix Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the rest of the links you provided.
The SL9 images are included because some of them contain images (albeit faint ones) of Europa. You brought up Europa (
not "Europe") by making what sounded like a claim about Voyager not imaging Europa (
Europe moon "photo" from Galileo, since despite "19,000 pictures" no "photos" of Europe here... http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/image/jupiter.html). Of course, a few seconds is all it takes to Google up beautiful view of Europa taken by both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2... not to mention by other spacecraft.
All your links belong in one of two categories:
- observable from Earth;
- NOT observable from Earth.
Europa is observable from Earth. (Hint: It's known as a "Galilean" moon for a reason.) It's also observable from low Earth orbit, as shown in the Hubble image provided.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy impact on Jupiter is the only thing that belongs in the first category.
So was the Deep Impact collision with Tempel 1. So are
hundreds of spacecraft, from the Apollo spacecraft tracked to the Moon by numerous individuals and organizations, to the deep-space probes tracked by stations around the world, to the geosynchronous TV broadcast satellites "tracked" by fixed home dishes, to the Shuttle, ISS, and numerous other satellites tracked visually by any human being who simply looks up when and where orbital mechanics says to... the same orbital mechanics which guides every other body, natural or manmade, in our solar system.
It also belongs, from another perspective (End Times or not) in the End Times category, but that's another story.
Agreed. I'm a space engineer, with a background in space physics and astronomy. I'm not interested in Illuminati this or End Times that, and such discussion is off-topic for this forum anyway.