https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/04/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/04/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a/#comment-4783 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:13:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/04/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a/#comment-4783 … did you mean ‘triptych’?

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/04/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a/#comment-4782 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:50:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/04/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a/#comment-4782 Station 14 has also done GSSR studies of Mars, Venus, Titan, and a number of asteroids. Sometimes Arecibo and/or the VLBA in Socorro, New Mexico, serve as the receiver(s).There is a hi-def picture of the 70-m here:http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/images/picture_70_bw_lg.jpgExpand it and look at the bottom for the truck to get an idea of the scale.(Photographers prefer cloudy weather because it makes more dramatic pictures. The sky over Goldstone is almost always clear. At night you can see Carl Sagan’s billions of stars.)

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