The realtime image pages are healthily updated, but dog-slow and unreliable

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MRI of the impact.

I just have to go 'BOOOOooooooom' every time I see a new picture

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Just taking photographs of my TV here - with Sky News carrying NASA TV

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Moving action to the realtime thread

Is it wrong that I was celebrating WAYYY before the scientists
Oh WOW - image showing the impact

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Wow - this is like ranger - amazing images coming in one after the other

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WOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo - the pictures

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Loss of Signal

10 seconds to go

If you turn off hardware acceleration for video playback, you can take screengrabs of things like realplayer and wmp

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FInal burn manouver complete - accurate to within 0.23%

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Last TCM calculations suggest again, 2ish m/sec

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For those with access - Sky News is carrying NTV as one of their multi-screen feeds

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Yup "Two days"...lmfao - 60 seconds

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I assume this is the calculated pointing error for the MRI on the Impactor.

Pictures on NASA TV look amazing from the HRI! Couldnt help myself laughing, there's a great big impact crater like feature just about where the impactor will be targeting



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TCM 2 is in progress - estimated to be 40ish seconds long, be around 2.2m/sec and use around 0.3kg of fuel.

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Nope - HRI stuff is being kept back so they can process it

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A rather rough and ready HRI picture on NASA TV - looks a bit like a distant startdust image.

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Report back on any good feeds

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Well - impactor TCM 1 went well - <0.3% error and it's on course for a nominal impact time. PI has suggested that the comet is Banana shaped and we're going to hit the end of it which looks a little triangular

Well
http://www.napacomfort.com/mars/nasa_feed.html
I'm using an AMES real player feed. it's a slow frame rate, but the actual quality of the video is good, and the sound is excellent - no stutters as of yet.

The WMP feed from nasa.gov stutters all the time - very annoying.

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There's a press conf in about an hour with the first post-release images - then from about 0230GMT, best thing it to watch NASA TV

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And you dont want to do it too early - because you have no control of the entry capsule after you deploy it, so you want to be attached to the thing that can adjust your trajectory essentially until the last possible moment

PS - I dont think it's worth making a deep impact forum on its own - but i'll start a new threads after the 1800UT press conf (3:15 from now)

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Well - the difference between having a sensible margin, and having enough for an extended mission - is not inconsiderable

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Infact - if you look v.closely at some of the JPL routemaps - this is exactly what they do down in Pasadena

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