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There is always a % risk of a bad landing. I wonder what the worst case scenario was for instrument deploy ? 45 degrees/ 60 degrees ? |
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| Posted on: Nov 27 2018, 04:03 AM | |
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QUOTE (marsophile @ Nov 27 2018, 03:35 AM)  https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/su...0000_0106M_.PNG Are we seeing reflections in the plates of the large structure on the left? It might be handy having some mirrored surfaces to look around corners. That's the seismometer... Seismometer. |
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| Posted on: Nov 27 2018, 03:28 AM | |
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Confirmation the solar panels have deployed. Also the panels are slightly bigger and stronger than Phoenix's were. Insight Is Catching Rays on Mars. |
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| Posted on: Nov 27 2018, 03:02 AM | |
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Anyone notice the indentations on the robotic arm cover plate, wonder if they were there before flight ? |
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| Posted on: Nov 27 2018, 02:55 AM | |
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Not exactly a flat parking lot, I see some good sized rocks. |
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| Posted on: Nov 27 2018, 01:38 AM | |
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QUOTE (nprev @ Nov 27 2018, 02:31 AM) The expected time for an orbiter downlink (looks like MODY) is approaching. Suggest following Emily's updated article here; if anyone gets a scoop, it'll be her.  I am watching DSN Now like a hawk, lol. |
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| Posted on: Nov 27 2018, 12:55 AM | |
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QUOTE (Gerald @ Nov 27 2018, 01:24 AM) ...The lander seems to be slightly tilted. Might be, that one of the feet is standing on top of a small rock like the one in the foreground... They said on the post landing conference the tilt was less than 2 degrees. |
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| Posted on: Nov 26 2018, 08:30 PM | |
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During the pre-landing briefings I did not hear anyone say an image might be sent back right after touchdown, did anyone else ? |
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| Posted on: Nov 26 2018, 08:24 PM | |
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QUOTE (fredk @ Nov 26 2018, 09:19 PM) First image up already! https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/su...0000_0106M_.PNG The surface looks very smooth. That was pretty quick, considering it's Sol 0. |
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| Posted on: Nov 26 2018, 08:10 PM | |
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Post landing briefing at 5pm EST. QUOTE (Steve5304 @ Nov 26 2018, 09:09 PM) will that lens cover come off? Yes. |
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| Posted on: Nov 26 2018, 08:07 PM | |
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| Posted on: Nov 26 2018, 08:05 PM | |
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Lander is nominal. |
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| Posted on: Nov 26 2018, 04:38 PM | |
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Mars looking real big on "Eyes". |
| Forum: InSight · Post Preview: #242005 · Replies: 119 · Views: 126929 |
| Posted on: Nov 25 2018, 10:35 PM | |
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QUOTE (nprev @ Nov 25 2018, 10:25 PM) <shrug> I could be wrong too about the direction. Think that what was said was that the terrain 11 (nautical?) miles (note the units!) NW of the original target point was potentially unsuitable so TCM-6 was gonna shift away from that. The landing point before TCM 6 was in less suitable terrain, so it's been moved 11 miles SW to a better place with TCM 6. One question I never heard was how accurate is the desired landing point to where they actually land, usually ? |
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| Posted on: Nov 25 2018, 08:42 PM | |
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QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Nov 25 2018, 09:03 PM) There have been so many missions who depended on ODY for their relay! We often give it for granted but the way this mission has been managed even in spite of the ever decreasing budget is quite remarkable. Paolo Are you talking ODY's budget, cause I thought the over all NASA's budget had increased this year. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreie...18-omnibus.html |
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| Posted on: Nov 25 2018, 06:09 AM | |
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Is the last TCM going to be used ? |
| Forum: InSight · Post Preview: #241962 · Replies: 129 · Views: 147599 |
| Posted on: Nov 23 2018, 12:54 AM | |
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QUOTE (scalbers @ Oct 13 2018, 05:24 PM) Nice to know. FYI, the GOES-16 mesoscale sectors have images for Hurricane Michael in one-minute timesteps. I suppose one can downscale the time, zooming into the eye to see time steps of just seconds. There is some experimental GOES-17 imagery (not yet public) that has real images on a 6-second time scale. GOES-16 "raw" image data is available on the AWS cloud if one want to get this type of data - perhaps you already are. They can do 30 second updates if they use both Meso sectors on the same target. |
| Forum: Earth Observations · Post Preview: #241914 · Replies: 58 · Views: 145586 |
| Posted on: Nov 21 2018, 10:48 AM | |
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QUOTE (PaulH51 @ Nov 21 2018, 03:32 AM) Does anyone know what happens to MarCO-A & MarCO-B after they complete the communications relay of the InSight EDL data? Is there any more science planned? Or do they simply head away from Mars basically following the cruise stage? They are in the orbit of the upper stage, not the cruise stage. |
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| Posted on: Oct 26 2018, 12:09 AM | |
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Any news on Insight being updated on Eyes, so we can watch the approach and landing ? |
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| Posted on: Oct 20 2018, 02:50 AM | |
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QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Oct 20 2018, 03:27 AM) It's alive!! Signal acquisition! Awesome, missed the launch as I had to deal with a work problem. |
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| Posted on: Oct 3 2018, 03:25 AM | |
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QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 3 2018, 04:15 AM) Separation confirmed per Spaceflight Now! Tweet confirms it. |
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| Posted on: Sep 10 2018, 01:12 AM | |
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QUOTE (Floyd @ Sep 9 2018, 12:35 PM) The link to the video. I get a lump in my throat every time I view it. I saw Cassini launch before I met my wife... |
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| Posted on: Aug 9 2018, 11:48 AM | |
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Will Eyes on the Solar System be updated, so we can follow along ? |
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| Posted on: Jul 10 2018, 06:18 AM | |
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QUOTE (Paolo @ Jul 10 2018, 06:36 AM) after a few days (too many) of hiatus, here is some new images of Ryugu. A stereo rotation animation http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/topics/20180710je/index.html Amazing. Also looks like that rock was cleaved. |
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| Posted on: Jul 2 2018, 04:52 PM | |
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QUOTE (Steve G @ Jul 2 2018, 03:37 PM) Have they abandoned plans to climb Mount Sharp? Based on the original timeline from when the mission landed, they're already about 4 years behind. That was never really the plan, there is not much scientific reason to go up there. |
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