Alas, poor MESSENGER!
I knew it, Mercury, a spacecraft of
infinite data gathering, of most excellent fancy.
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| Numbers as of last August. via Johns Hopkins APL |
It hath borne my wonder on its
back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my newsfeed it is! My gorge
rises at its impactful outcome.
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| Last image from MESSENGER |
Here hung those cameras whose images I have
view'd I know not how oft.
—Where be your tweets now?
Your gifs?
Your false-color imaging?
Your flash of Earth that was wont to set the media on a roar?
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| Earth/Moon from Mercury! |
Not about
now to mock your own accomplishments?
Quite chapfallen?
[h/t W. Shakespeare for the prose]
