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From: carl@iago.caltech.edu (Lydick, Carl)
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Subject: Re: Mission Map question
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Date: 7 Jun 91 14:34:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.134837.11390@b15.b15.ingr.com>, ptc@b15.b15.ingr.com (Paul
Carter) writes...
>Also, what is the South Atlantic Anomoly?

The South Atlantic Anomaly is a part of the radiation belts over the South
Atlantic that anomalously reaches a much lower altitude than the rest of the
belts.  It tends to do nasty things to solid-state electronics.  E.g., at one
point, there was a good chance of one or more random bits getting flipped in one
of the computers on the space telescope as it passed through the anomaly.  I
think they worked around this by not having the memory active while it's there.
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