Need image of 'Great Galactic Ghoul'

I'm looking for a medium-res color image of the
1970-era 'mascot' of JPL, the "Great Galactic Ghoul"
that ate -- or just bit -- Mars-bound spacecraft.

A lo-res B&W image is shown he
http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mi.../moi-ghoul.gif

I can't seem to find anything better on the Internet.

And I don't mean this ersatz ghoulie shown at
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/spa...tion-2001.html

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:31:51 GMT, "Jim Oberg"
wrote:

A lo-res B&W image is shown he
http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mi.../moi-ghoul.gif

....Wbua Znkfba, is that you? :-)

OM
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Jim Oberg wrote:
I'm looking for a medium-res color image of the
1970-era 'mascot' of JPL, the "Great Galactic Ghoul"
that ate -- or just bit -- Mars-bound spacecraft.

A lo-res B&W image is shown he
http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mi.../moi-ghoul.gif

I can't seem to find anything better on the Internet.

And I don't mean this ersatz ghoulie shown at
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/spa...tion-2001.html

The Great Galactic Ghoul affected more than just Mars-bound craft. In
the old Soviet era, the Russians had little luck with Venus probes, to
say nothing of the spectacular disaster of N-1 in 1969.

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:46:16 +1100, ray
wrote:

In the old Soviet era, the Russians had little luck with Venus probes

....We recently determined that it was Brad Guth's whore of a mama who
was responsible. She was attempting to pin the blame on Pat's fire
women.

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Jim Oberg wrote:
I'm looking for a medium-res color image of the
1970-era 'mascot' of JPL, the "Great Galactic Ghoul"
that ate -- or just bit -- Mars-bound spacecraft.

A lo-res B&W image is shown he
http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mi.../moi-ghoul.gif

I can't seem to find anything better on the Internet.

And I don't mean this ersatz ghoulie shown at
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/spa...tion-2001.html

Not the same one as yours, but another Ghoul from NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/image...halloween.html

At the bottom of this page is a piece of music titled The Great
Galactic Ghoul:
http://www.geoffproudley.com/Musicsnippets.html

Here is a list of the Ghoul's victims:
http://www.interspacenews.com/sectio...ic%20ghoul.htm


Rusty

OM wrote:




In the old Soviet era, the Russians had little luck with Venus probes



...We recently determined that it was Brad Guth's whore of a mama who
was responsible. She was attempting to pin the blame on Pat's fire
women.



Actually, once the Soviets figured out the temperatures and pressures
they were dealing with on Venus, they had pretty good luck with their
Veneras. It was their Mars probes that were a full scale disaster area.
Pin The Tail On The Firewoman is a very popular bar game on Venus, as
there are few things that they enjoy more than getting their tails
nailed...er, pinned. :-)

Pat

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Jim Oberg wrote:
I'm looking for a medium-res color image of the
1970-era 'mascot' of JPL, the "Great Galactic Ghoul"
that ate -- or just bit -- Mars-bound spacecraft.

A lo-res B&W image is shown he
http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mi.../moi-ghoul.gif

I can't seem to find anything better on the Internet.

And I don't mean this ersatz ghoulie shown at
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/spa...tion-2001.html

There is a higher-resolution image of the Great Galactic Ghoul, credited to
G.W. Burton, on page 110 of *The Voyager Neptune Gravel Guide*-- the
excellent presskit book prepared for the 1989 Neptune encounter.

In the book, it's a decent, not great, halftone reproduction on slick paper.

The book has been slapped onto a scanner and squeezed into a PDF, with the
loss of a great deal of quality in its images. But you can see the Ghoul on
page 122 of the PDF version, which reproduces page 110 of the book:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19900004096_1990004096.pdf

The spatial resolution is good; the grayscale has been flattened horribly,
so that the illustration is almost meaningless. Maybe you can salvage
something from it, or find a better copy, or do a better scan of a paper
edition of the book.

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In article v,
Bill Higgins wrote:
There is a higher-resolution image of the Great Galactic Ghoul, credited to
G.W. Burton, on page 110 of *The Voyager Neptune Gravel Guide*-- the
excellent presskit book prepared for the 1989 Neptune encounter.

I do believe you meant The Voyager Neptune *Travel* Guide. The only
gravel likely found loose in the Neptune system is in the rings, which
Voyager took some care to avoid. :-)
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Henry Spencer wrote:

In article v,
Bill Higgins wrote:
There is a higher-resolution image of the Great Galactic Ghoul, credited to
G.W. Burton, on page 110 of *The Voyager Neptune Gravel Guide*-- the
excellent presskit book prepared for the 1989 Neptune encounter.

I do believe you meant The Voyager Neptune *Travel* Guide. The only
gravel likely found loose in the Neptune system is in the rings, which
Voyager took some care to avoid. :-)

A spelling error!

I grovel in apology.

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Bill Higgins wrote:

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Henry Spencer wrote:

In article v,
Bill Higgins wrote:
There is a higher-resolution image of the Great Galactic Ghoul, credited to
G.W. Burton, on page 110 of *The Voyager Neptune Gravel Guide*-- the
excellent presskit book prepared for the 1989 Neptune encounter.

I do believe you meant The Voyager Neptune *Travel* Guide. The only
gravel likely found loose in the Neptune system is in the rings, which
Voyager took some care to avoid. :-)

A spelling error!

I grovel in apology.

A childhood grauma, from being bitten by a grout perhaps?

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