I felt the Market Rasen one - it woke Helen and I up!

Doug

width of the HRSC swath is about 12 degrees - covering 5000ish pixels.

Doug

I'd feel the need to go 'hmm- too many images in these posts' - but WHAT images - they're amazing!

Doug

Apt. Love it.

And I want a pony - but sometimes no matter how much we ask, we just have to wait and see.

Yes - loads of them. All over the arm to get it to work in the cold -80 temps.

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/2014/39718

Doug

No - it's not a case of wording it badly - it's just wrong. Not even a hint of acknowledging the other work in the field. This, after the 'bad wording' of claiming that MEX would be seeing unseen parts of Phobos (when actually it's parts of Phobos already seen...just not by MEX) wraps up a bad week for ESA imho.

Bad form.

Raw JPG's and Real Colour are essentially mutually exclusive.

The colours are really hard to pull out - looks cool though. This is a mosaic of three obs that cover the whole substrate.

12 kilos probably wouldn't be a cruise stage problem. HOWEVER - if Exomars enters orbit before deploying, then you've also got to de-orbit the DS2's, and err..

you've got to fund, design, test, build two DS2's....without any money.

Doug

I dont doubt that for one second. But there isn't a Phoenix 2.0 ready to fly, there isn't cash to make one, and the science beacon in the form of H from the GRS is now 'covered' with Phoenix.

I'd love to land everywhere - but when you have one - just ONE lander left on the schedule, the south pole isn't the place, and I don't think it will be for some time to come.

Doug

Oh - I'm sure it would - but having explored 'a' pole, attention (given the limited budget) should move elsewhere, and to taking the Phoenix results and extrapolating via orbital data.

Phoenix is getting the science we never got from MPL already. And the major reason Phoenix was able to fly at all, was that it had the '01 hardware ready to go.

It's worth noting, Opportunity only achieved Full Mission Success 8 sols shy of the 90, Spirit only 2 sols short.

Doug

I couldn't help it. Last night I got home, grabbed the 1U Cubesat Kit cad-file, bolted some arrays onto it, some antennae - and hit render

http://www.dougellison.com/?p=24

I've never submitted stuff to APOD. They just find the version of the creation that isn't quite finished, post it, write a caption for it that doesn't give the right acknowledgements, and isn't entirely accurate and don't tell you. Then, the first you hear about it is someone emailing you to tell you that the caption is wrong for that image you sent to APOD.

That's what's happened to me.

Twice.

Left Eye R/B fudged colour. Right Eye Diopter IR/B fudged colour, and a colour anaglyph of the two.

QTVR time

I challenge you not to look at this and make a ping/spring/boing happy sort of a noise.

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/lg_14223.jpg

Imagine the DEM's hitting the PDS in a year or two

Doug

Nope - I think you're right.

Probably the UHF antenna, and a pyro-bolt. I think the gnenom, errm, gnomen, err, sundial stalk bit would be behind the HGA shadow.

VERY cool picture

Doug

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7461868.stm - even made the local news

Just found out about this, totally by accident, at the BAUT forum!

http://cubesat.wikidot.com/

I will endeavour to find out more, and see if there's anything I can do to help (which will be nothing, probably)

Steering to the right, fully, with a big of dig-in.