

Hanging high, flat against the wall, exactly as we saw him last, is a Jabba laughs hideously and looks toward an alcove beside the throne. JABBA: I will not give up my favorite decoration. Since the Hutts were frequent patrons of bounty hunters, it would have spread the news that this was a viable way to imprison bounty targets. Jabba the Hutt clearly liked having his prisoner on display. While it's unclear how closely aligned with them he was, Boba Fett would have had an opportunity to share this find with them. The Mandalorians have a tight-knit community (as we see in The Mandalorian).There are two reasons why the technology would develop rapidly after this The ship and its cargo pass the scans, and land in a cavern near the Citadel, where the droids unload and thaw out the strike team. When the droid's ship reaches orbit above Lola Sayu, they are interrogated about their cargo by the Citadel's warden, Osi Sobeck, and his tactical droid, K2-B4. incorporates a plot devised by Anakin using reprogrammed battle droids led by R2-D2 to pilot a Class type B escort shuttle through the orbital defense lines, and the human and clone crew being frozen in carbonite to fool life form detectorsĪfter the strike team is carbon-frozen, they are loaded onto the shuttle and transported to the Citadel. on Captain Solo.Īpparently Vader first used it himself, back when he was still a Jedi. VADER: I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged. If you put him in there, it might kill him. LANDO: Lord Vader, we only use this facility for carbon freezing. Since Vader was ruthless, he wasn't afraid to take a risk in seeing if it would kill Han. Lando's equipment was not designed to do this. It took Messenger - an acronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging - six years to travel 60 million miles to the solar system's innermost planet.When Vader decides to use it, it's clear that the technology was not commonly used on people and fraught with risk. It was the first probe to visit Mercury since Mariner in 1975. It is capable of continuing orbital operations until early 2015. “During the first two years of orbital operations, Messenger acquired over 150,000 images and extensive other data sets.


“The Messenger spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven instruments are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet,” the researchers say. The NASA Messenger probe reached Mercury’s orbit in March 2011, and has collected millions of measurements using instruments designed to operate in hostile conditions near the sun. This block may be part of the original surface that pre-dates the formation of Caloris, which was shaped by material ejected during the basin-forming event,” the researchers say.ĭata from the Messenger probe has caused scientists to rethink the history of Mercury, the innermost planet in the solar system - and could lead to a greater understanding of how terrestrial planets like Earth form. “If there are two things you should remember, it's not to cross a Hutt, and that Mercury's surface can throw up all kinds of surprises. The scientists admit that observing a resemblance to Han Solo is a form of “pareidolia” - the habit of seeing human shapes in space, such as the man in the moon. The image is named “He will not be permanently damaged”, a quote from Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. The image was captured by the orbiting Messenger probe in July 2011, and released this week. “A portion of the terrain surrounding the northern margin of the Caloris basin hosts an elevated block in the shape of a certain carbonite-encased smuggler who can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs,” the scientists say. A human-like figure has been spotted on the surface of Mercury by the orbiting Messenger spacecraft - and scientists point out a startling resemblance to the frozen Han Solo in Return of the Jedi.
