Lifted a true colour frame from the Pancam site, and 3 MI's from the same sol and



http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...538_mi_true.jpg (600kb)

Doug

You know how flares are 'soooo 1970's' - or early sony walkmans are 'soooo 1980's' etc etc

Well - Dust Devils are Soooooo Sol 450 I mean...get OVER it


Doug

Well - we'll need the one or two times DD's have been caught by pancam to filter thru to the Workbook before taking the IMG's and having a go then - but it'll be a while

Doug

Unfortunately - because they move so quickly - it's impossible to photograph them really - as one has to cycle between three filters to make a colour image - in which time the devil's moved 100 metres or more

Doug

I was THIS close ( finger and thumb just about touching ) from just deleting the post - but thought that would be a bit of overkill - I think the point is made, the guy was over the line in terms of what is and isnt right for here.

Doug

The later it goes in the window, the smaller the MOI delta V I guess...dont want to wait TOO long though the less dV we need for MOI - the longer the mission can last

Astonishing fact of the day

The MOI engines for MRO are 6 of the descent engines designed for the orig 2001 Mars lander

Dealyed to the very end of the window to hepl give time to fix a problem with a fuel flow meter type thing

Blood fuel sensors - always causing trouble

Doug

It's the same hole for sure - but wow - lot of dust dumped in there

One would hope that if the nearby dust was blown INTO the hole - then dust would also be blown OFF the rover

Doug

But of course - they're not Sols...they're days - You've gone mars nuts

The two spacewalkers need a medal for their photography - it's superb

Doug

I wonder how much the route maps will change once we have a HiRISE image of the place

Doug

Surely this would also have killed Viking, Pathfinder, and the rovers. Anything big enough to have killed DS2 would have killed previous succesfull spacecraft as well.

The Mars 96 probes never left earth orbit incidentally.

Doug

Your hill profile makes an excellent point - the view from there wont be THAT good - unless someones come round earlier and built a viewing platform wiht a nice etched-plaque pointing out the local sites etc

Doug

Shuttle landing and MRO launch inside 24 hrs was almost too much for me to handle.

But MRO HAS to go in this window - so I hope they dont have to delay too long - the weather at KSC recently has demonstrated how hard it can be to get a break meterologically.

Doug

Yup - thats what I want. Amazon.co.uk wont let me have just that - but Amazon.com looks like it will - so that's what i'll look for.

Doug

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/bo...ars.html?882005


DAMN YOU AMAZON....WHERE IS IT

Doug

Anyone notice they had a graphical profile of Marsis data as part of a graph about Sharad at the MRO conf yesterday...

ARHGHGHG

That should be on the ESA website!!!!!

Doug

The main stream media is officially crap at space.

A sunday paper here described the three spacewalks recently as all being unplanned. GRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I must admit - I googled-newsd to keep an eye out for Steve interviews etc, and found lots of very very old news stories coming up as new today - perhaps the news websites refresh their pages with new adverts/links etc - and thus google thinks it's a new news story.

Doug

the 'far' summit is in the second frame from the right.
the near summit is beyond the right hand edge.

Doug

We CAN communiate with the rovers..but we're not scheduled to. If something happened to Odyssey we would.

Pathfinder/Viking/MER/MPL/B2 landing sites...they cant wait to image them - very exciting to look at - important data for understanding the sites and act as a ground truth. Try to look for other landers, given the resolution and size of spacecraft we anticipate being able to look for them. Beagle we hope to find the parachute and give a big target to look at.




Doug

ahh - it's on now
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/launch/event-MRO.html

None of the questions I saw at the MRO site were asked - perhaps they're for a different conf?

Doug

Actually - I setup stuff to do this - but the revenue is TINY and the banner adverts are just..huge, ugly and intrusive.

I'd like just a simple link, but seemingly that's too simple for amazon - I'm still looking though :0

Doug

I did EXACTLY the same

Doug

If we're lucky - they'll be fielding a lot of questions submitted to their website - including one asking if Electra will be used with MER at any point

doug

Bloomin'eck I cant match your colours Nico - they're cracking

I think there's one or two frames not down from between THAT mosaic...and THIS one..


http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_images/s562.jpg 400kb

Doug