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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 12:14 PM
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Pet Peeve...online articles that describe a visual image...without an accompanying picture...
Classic example...today CNN describes t he flyby of Jupiter by the New Horizons probe on the way to Pluto...and notes the pictures of Jupiter, IO, and Europa that it is taking...

Yet NOT A SINGLE picture accompanying the article....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/02/28/new.horizons.jupiter.reut/index.html

The pictures are available here if you are interested btw...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070228_nhflyby_firstimages.html

And so I am not accused of the same thing...here is one of the images
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 07:12 PM
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1. There's a simple reason for that...
The pictures of Jupiter are not skanky. NASA only needs to enhance their photos with images of Britney and Anna Nicole, and media will jump on tem like wildfire.

Thanks for the link...The photos are spectacular!
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