Inspired

Doug.

The recently released Sols 450-540 of calibrated raw data at the PDS / MER Notebook etc.

Doug

I very much doubt that. There's a generation and a half of people who have lived in a time when no one walked on the moon - me included. People of my age +/-10 years (17 - 37) will be watching the first of these new mission, and experiencing something very similar to that of those fortunate enough to have been alive in 1967. This may be ground already covered for many, but for younger people - this is our Apollo and it excites me greatly.

Doug

It's like looking at a crater turned inside out - astonishing material in there. I have no idea what it is, where it came from, what it's made of or what it means - but I'm glad we have a little rover that can drive just a few M and find out and tell us the story.

Doug

With the new data down - I thought I'd whack this together - been looking forward to it for ages

Doug

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=39904

The nav mosaic

I'd expect a visit to this little bit of outcrop - if offers what looks like some layering, and a Northern tilt to boot

Doug

Evidently they COULD

Wow - that was a 'shot' I was wondering about before it went out to the pad - something we've never seen before - for some reason the KSC website is down for me at the moment - but once it's back up I'll have a good look!

Doug

Yes - take the pictures at about 1200 - drive - then the HAZ at about 1350

Doug

Exactly.

Yup - best analogy I could come up with when I was talking about this to someone a few weeks ago...

NH is packing iso 6400 film - and it's not going to perform too well outside, on a bright summer sunny day

Doug

Agreed - some posts deleted as a result.

Doug

Indeed it is - the moment the clouds bugger off, I want to grab something of it - and Jupiter.

Doug

6x1 PC Sol 743 at about 1207 local, then a drive, then at about 1350 local, the FHAZ that's down.

As far as I know - yes - the bright jovian disc would just bleach out on NH's very sensitive cameras.

Doug

This is from a little PDF I found at the same place as the UHF tracking info

well 12345 - there are lots of high res pics at the KSC Multimedia Gallery ( www.ksc.nasa.gov ) - go back to the 6 monhts or so before launch and there's lots of photos, including nice one's such as the Equipment Deck just on its own with things stowed etc

as for 6 - I dont thin the motor has a hinge, I think it's two halves, one is the motor, one the planetary gear to down-speed it to the shaft from the array.

It's odd to think that from 'aboe' - MRO's burn which actually increase it's speed - but because it will being 'run over' by mars, it will be slowing down w.r.t. Mars itself

I hope they release the op-nav imagery - I'm sure it wont be particularly great, but it will make an interesting little movie watchign Phobos and Deimos doing their thing

Doug

DV - spot on.

Doug

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Doug

I can see two distinct bands that look quite accesable on the overlap between frames 3 and 4 on the Pancam mosaic - and then an easy access route up onto the top via the 2nd frame.

Doug

5 by Nav.

Not levelled out the brightness, but what the hell, it's something