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| Wednesday, September 8, 2004 |
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The science of Eden 
| | Instead of the smooth midair retrieval NASA expected, the $264 million Genesis mission to study the solar wind ended in a crater in the Utah desert Wednesday. |
| | With losses come measures, and of all those available, none is easier than money. Or, too often, more misleading. |
| | How about not measuring the loss at all? How about respecting the instructive powers of failure? |
| | Great mysteries persist, along with the will to solve them. If Genesis failed today, it was only at subtracting from the immeasurable sum of what we don't know. It also subtracted nothing from what we'll never know. |
| | I'm betting, by the way, that the mission will be at least a partial success. I mean, look at that picture, above. The mother is remarkably intact considering that it fell from space. We may be lucky the probe landed in the dried mud of a salt lake bed, and not on a rocky surface. (Here's the video.) Watch this page for the mission's own reports on the matter. |
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