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If anyone can find a clearer crash picture, that would probably look better. this was the only one yet posted on the NASA website. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 17:32, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Need Another Solar wind Analyzer -Joseph 16:15, 2004 Sep 8 (UTC)
According to this Genesis page, "The capsule was designed to be able to survive such a landing." But I watched the post-impact press conference on NASA TV, and they clearly stated it was not designed for that. Oh, that page really needs to be a wiki. :) Ponder 20:59, 2004 Sep 8 (UTC)
Ohh dear, they must have used the same parachutes as the guys behind Beagle 2. It might have stood a better chance of surviving such a crash if it had landed over water, but then maybe it would have sunk, which would probably have been worse. Mintguy (T)
Maybe Stardust will show us how things should be done? Or will it make a crater as well? Awolf002 02:43, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I understand mistakes can happen...but aren't the NASA people supposed to be the smartest guys in the world? Why do this things happen over and over again? Any comments? --AAAAA 04:01, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I actually was watching some guy talk today on the news and he was talking about the mision price. When compared to how much money people spend on other things, this really was not an expensive mission. Still...$264 million is a lot of money, but according to this man I was listening to, Americans spent more money on bubble gum during the mission time period than they did on the actual mission. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 19:50, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
Can someone explain to me how this entire section is not one continuous violation of the talk page guidelines? Is there any way that any of this contributes to the editorial process, as the talk page guidelines clearly require? Poihths (talk) 21:29, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The "Sample Extraction" section refers to an "aluminum" wafer (as does the article it cites), but the description of the spacecraft mentions plates made from graphite, gold, sapphire, and diamond. Can we assume the reporter misheard alumina, which would refer to the sapphire plates? --Christopher Thomas 14:52, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
It seems to me that there clearly is a crater visible in the picture. Do my eyes deceive me? We should bring back that sentence in the text! Awolf002 12:57, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Okay, you mean just because the remnants of the probe fill up the depression, that there is no crater? What then after the probe was removed? Don't you think that there really is a crater there? Awolf002 00:02, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I edited the paragraph below. It was a little hard to read. In fact, I couldn't gork what it was intended to mean and the edits may have introduced error or stripped off important information. google could fix that, but gosh, I am lazy. If someone has the information on his mind already, help please.
A first possible lead to the root cause of the failed deployment of the parachutes were announced in a October 14 press release. Lockheed Martin had designed the system with an acceleration sensor upside down and design reviews had not caught the mistake. Instead of making an electrical contact at 3 g (29 m/s²), maintaining it through 30 g (290 m/s²). Above 30 g, the sensor would realise the electrical contact, triggering release of the parachute. The flawed design would only have worked if gravity was lowered and no contact was therefore ever made.
Just wanted to ask what the point of including anything about Colin Pillinger was, considering the role he played was small, and as with his own Beagle 2 project, he did not design the landing system? Just wondered, was all...
Thanks, Ralphybaby 14:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone else find this picture (currently in this article) strange? You can clearly see a gloved hand in the picture, much smaller than you'd expect if the pencil was a true indicator of scale. And it's not just the hand, the whole instrument just looks bigger than the pencil would indicate, but the hand is the evidence. --80.202.99.208 (talk) 06:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have tagged the mention of Colin Pillinger with "clarify" and "relevance". Did Colin suggest Beagle's loss may have been related? Was he involved with Genesis's re-entry design? Otherwise why mention him?" -84user (talk) 01:54, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've been on the Genesis mission in different capacities for a decade and never hear mention of Colin Pillinger working on the project in any capacity. This is a red herring. Genesismissionfriend (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've recast the sentence, "Because the solar wind particles are expected to be embedded in the wafers, whereas the contaminating dirt is likely just to lie on the surface, it may be possible to separate the dirt from the samples," in the past tense because the events described are now eight years in the past.
Poihths (talk) 21:26, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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I worked on the silicon wafers as an acid etcher and inspector during my time at a silicon wafer factory. (I still would love to know why only the edges got acid etched.) We referred to them as "hexagonal wafers" (technically, they were nonagons), while the job description was "solar dust collectors". The only acid burn I ever suffered at the factory was during this job, and it was during a rinsing, of all things. (Pro tip: Don't brush your hair out of your face with your gloves on.)
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