[meteorite-list] Venus image by Akatsuki

[Patrick Wiggins]

On 09 Dec 2010, at 14:08, Michael Murray wrote:

> I wanted to ask if you know if there was anything in the way of good news on the fate of the Akatsuki spacecraft?

Sigh...

This thin, diminishing crescent is Venus. It was taken by Akatsuki about two days after the spacecraft flew past Venus instead of entering orbit.

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002817/ 

patrick