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APOD: 2009 July 5 - Genesis Missions Hard Impact

apod.nasa.gov — A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert in 2004 after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. No space aliens were involved, however. The saucer, pictured above, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun.

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  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -1/+14Those aren't UFOs... They are Helecopters.
  • DaviDTC, on 07/05/2009, -2/+13I guess one of the effects of solar wind on unprotected material is causing parachutes to malfunction.
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -0/+6Hey Richi:
    A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert in 2004 after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. http://digg.com/d1vj86?t

    That above was 153 characters...

    This below is 131 charcters...

    Flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. http://digg.com/d1vj86?t

    Now if you would be so kind as to show me this 'inaccurate linkbait' I would really like to find it. Because my 'tweets' are the same words used by nasa, at the most edited to fit in twitters 140character format.
    I went back to twitter and double checked.... then back to apod.nasa.gov... still the same words NASA used the first time.
    I read it, copied & pasted it to the description. So can you pleas go tell NASA they are 'linkbaiting & spammers' maybe they will fix it.
  • RogerStrong, on 07/05/2009, -1/+6Nah. It proves that Murphy's Law is still in effect. The original event that inspired Edward A. Murphy, Jr. to formulate the now-famous law was an accelerometer installed backwards.

    That's what happenned with the Genesis probe. A pre-test procedure that could have easily detected the problem was skipped by Lockheed Martin.

    I read somewhere that the Galileo mission's atmospheric entry probe (at Jupiter) had the same problem. Luckily it only resulted in the parachute openning a bit lower than expected.
  • diwen, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4This experiment should aid research into the effects of 300 km/h impacts on solar wind particle sample containers.
  • SEN5241, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4Aerogel - takes a licking, keeps on ticking.
  • BIGJOE1975, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4Today...is our... INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
  • velocity92c, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4I love APOD.
  • DirtPile, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2Helecopters?
  • kamikaze134, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2Didn't the same thing happen with the last capsule like this? NASA needs to improve their parachute engineering.
  • Robozilla, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2Cylon.
  • audreyfischer, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Why didn't it leave a bigger crater? Was it simply that much of a light-weight? Did the parachute not open at all? or open late... breaking the fall somewhat?
    Nighthawke, if the lake bed is "sopping wet mud" just under the surface... what keeps the helicopters from sinking into the mud? (The blades are stopped.)
  • wallet55, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2Proof, proof that the government found a crashed spacecraft!
  • garydon, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Sorry, but that photo is bogus. An object that large traveling that fast and it only lightly scattered sand 10-20 feet !!! Look at every meteor impact -- just another government fake photo.
  • Nighthawke, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2The blessing that kept it from splattering instead of digging a crater was that the lakebed was gumbo. Meaning it looked like it was dry on top but under it was sopping wet mud.
  • bunk3rk1ng, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2It's a coverup! There were actually three aliens in that spacecraft and one of them lived. It is now being held at area 51 with the rest of his alien friends from Roswell.
  • Hellahulla, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2Yeah, a lot of money to not care about. Years of wasted research and effort. Nope, they don't care.
  • taibo, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1Welcome to Earf.
  • walkermalling, on 07/05/2009, -2/+1It crashed at 300kph and that was the extent of the impact crater?
  • zerton, on 07/05/2009, -5/+3I bet this was a sad day for all those white burqa nasa people.
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -3/+0I'm sure they don't care much since there's not a human in it. Plus, it makes cool photos.
  • richi, on 07/05/2009, -12/+1Buried as spam: Mich is tweeting inaccurate linkbait descriptions

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