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Let's hope there are some nekkid chic rock formations as yet undiscovered by science. That would be an excellent use for this camera system.
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But we do have some cool stuff taken from Galileo, Hubble, and Cassini (warning: teh big!): Lunar North Pole color mosaic Copernicus Crater from Hubble Cassini Formerly known as cynical_rock censeo tentatio victum There is no snooze button on a cat. |
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First (false) colour images from MRO's HIRISE camera
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Hey, where did our really cool Mars Rover thread go??????
I was going to point out that they're STILL GOING. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html Was that thread over at AI? Has it been that long? |
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MRO spots Opportunity from Orbit.
Now that's some fine camera. click for link to press release... larger images in text links below. Quote:
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Holy Holes, Batman!
Caves on Mars! Quote:
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I don't think I've updated it much, as I'm rarely there anymore. I started this one because I didn't want to copy all the old content over, but still needed to fill my planetary thread quotient. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2007-05-27 at 13:24. Reason: Posts merged |
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Weather slows rovers, delays Phoenix launch
So the big news about Mars you'll hear this week isn't from the surface of that planet. In fact, the dust above that planet's surface is forcing the rovers to hibernate because it's blocking so much sun. The rovers are on battery to keep the electronics warm but aren't getting more than about 5% topup each day. I suppose you could call it a dirt-nap, but they're not dead, just resting. The biggest Mars news you'll hear this week has been delayed by the weather on this planet. Mars Phoenix Lander was set to blast towards the red orb on Friday, but storms here bumped the launch window back a day. Quote:
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Mars Phoenix Lander LAUNCH at 05:26:34 EDT. W0OT!!!
Awaiting 2nd stage re-ignition and interplanetary transfer burn. All systems go so far. Picture perfect launch. Post-Launch press conference later on NASA TV, but it looks like we're on track. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Hey I like them caves!
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A knife and a fork, a bottle and a cork, that's the way to spell New York. |
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All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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5 days and 4 hours... and counting... ah ah aaaaaa. </Countvoice>
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The Phoenix EDL Press Briefing is restarting now on the NASA TV Media Channel
Caught the last bit of it live, and there's some very informative animations and Q&A. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Burb... was just looking here
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/phases04.php# for some type of JPL video feed that might be available online? Can't find one but hoping we don't have to wait for the Discovery Channel special. [Woop... just found some more links from your link... Looks like NASA TV has some feeds planned.] ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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The Phoenix page linked below has an animation of the trajectory from Earth to Mars, which goes some ways to explaining the relative light-delay of 8 minutes from us to the Sun, but 10+ to Mars at the moment.
At the EDL briefing Jim Strickland had an interesting bit of trivia about the energy ablated by the heat shield during the 7 minutes of EDL. Slowing from 12,500mph to 900mph will effectively burn off 34MW of energy, enough to power a city of 200k for those 7 minutes of reentry. I think he said MW and not kW... I'd have to catch the transcript or see if any of the reporters picked it up, but he said Topeka, Kansas was a comparable city for those 7 minutes. The heat shield is similar to cork, admittedly with special treatments and coatings. It will exceed the surface temperature of the Sun during max heating, but the lander inside is expected to only experience room temperature. Science is teh cool, dude. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Chemical engineering FTW.
That is pretty frickin amazing (the heat shield thing). |
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3 and change hours to EDL. NASA TV coverage times in the links above... IIRC, the media channel start time differs slightly.
Most of the coverage will be control room stuff... no images expected until Odyssey relay pass a few hours after landing. The press conference today noted they'd cancelled the final TCM (the 2nd of 6 they skipped) and were happy with their target ellipse. Peter Smith, the PI, said "if you looked out the window on our spacecraft right now (we don't have a window, but imagine if) Mars would appear 10 times the size of the full moon, and it would be growing bigger rapidly." Spacecraft speed up to 8,500mph now and ramping up to 12.5k at entry. Go Phoenix! All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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I think I saw an ad on the Science Channel this morning where they said live coverage at 7pm eastern... sweet! Mmmm... HD landing.
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Cruise stage separation signal...
14 minutes to touchdown. |
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So it looks like the NASA TV Public Channel mixes control room footage with Gaye Yee Hill interviews and voiceovers, with groovy updates from a 3d simulation.
The Media Channel has no Gaye or secondary commentary , but all mission audio and some actual telemetry screens of squiggles. Phoenix is now transmitting 8k data, not just carrier. About to enter atmosphere. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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About to pick up to 32k data again via Odyssey relay.
This means we survived 9g and peak heating. Odyssey lock up! Parachute confirm! Heat shield eject! Ground relative velocity 80metres/sec! All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Radar to altitude mode.
2 min to touchdown. |
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Phoenix has Landed!
Helium venting detected. Down and still transmitting... now we wait a few hours for pictures of the panels. And then the science. |
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Woooooo!
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geri to my friends
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No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century.................
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Well, having been there, you'd know.
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I'm rather enamored of PiratePalooza's report on the mission success and woudn't mind terribly if it were stumblediggredditeded....
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I watched the live stream from NASA's site....just amazing.
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There was no live stream of the actual landing, you just mean the JPL coverage right? If there was actually photos/videos why the hell didn't Science Channel put them on?
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Oh man, I haven't checked in since the flyovers.... going off to see how the panel-openings went....
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