MSL - landing day, Got any plans? |
MSL - landing day, Got any plans? |
May 1 2012, 07:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 11-July 11 Member No.: 6058 |
On a light note, has anyone made any plans for 5 August? It is, after all, less than one hundred days away now, and I'm sure Mars is getting very big in the window for ol' Curiosity.
I hope they'll get a webcast going. I'll be frantically clicking on 'refresh' on here come what may!... [MOD NOTE: Topic moved to Chit Chat for obvious reasons.] |
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May 1 2012, 09:17 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Could be tricky... I'll be travelling, coming back to Victoria BC from a stay in Tofino that day. Where will I be at the time? Will I have internet? The pain of uncertainty will be offset by the pleasure of being on Vancouver Island. What tho' the spicy breezes...
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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May 1 2012, 10:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
QUOTE I hope they'll get a webcast going. I see why not. Its so exciting to watch as it happens. I did barbecue during phoenix. And I plan to do it during MSL web-cast. |
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May 1 2012, 10:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 252 Joined: 5-May 05 From: Mississippi (USA) Member No.: 379 |
According to Wikipedia planned landing is the evening of August 5 PDT, which is morning of August 6 UT.
<HUMOR> Assuming this turns out to be correct. Then in my CDT time zone: the way I figure it, if I stay awake till 3AM at the latest I should get all important available information. Then I can sleep about six hours and be back on line no later than 9:00 AM! I will leave my computer on so I won't need to boot up. Will stock up on snacks and microwave meals. Since I am retired nothing should get in the way, although the fact that it will be August in Mississippi, and I am about 1500 feet / (500 m) from the Gulf of Mexico - certainly could change my plans! Seriously, I think I will wait to make detailed plans. I sometimes over-plan </HUMOR> I wonder how much time Curiosity will spend near the landing site checking system status, and I guess functional testing of the instruments. No driving off of a landing stage anyway. |
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May 2 2012, 03:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
My current plan is to be at work, to see if I can be of any help to the HiRISE folks.
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May 2 2012, 03:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Planetfest sounds good.
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May 2 2012, 03:30 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
The Society will be having a Planetfest in Pasadena, for those of you eager to celebrate (or mourn) with 2000 other rabid fans. There is discussion of trying to create satellite Planetfests; I'm not sure how likely that is to come to pass. I am 95% certain that our event will be webcast. How much value will be added to NASA TV I'm not sure (since we will be relying on NASA TV for the feed from mission control), but our event will be webcast.
As for me, I plan to be jumping up and down at JPL. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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May 2 2012, 05:06 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hopefully the Pasadena Planetfest, provided that my bloody job doesn't get in the way as it is wont to do...
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May 2 2012, 07:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
The landing is very early on Monday morning in the UK so I'll be going to bed early and then getting up and watching from home from around an hour before entry.
I'm then taking the whole week off work to follow and learn how to handle MSL data James -------------------- |
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May 2 2012, 09:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
On our side in France, we, at Societe Astronomique de France (which represents also TPS in France) and at the Mars Society, are planning to do a live event in Paris like we did before for the landings of MPF (1997), MPL (1999), Spririt and Opportunity (2004) and Phoenix (2008), with a NASA-TV internet feed.
The only problem is that the MSL lands early Monday morning (August 6) for us, around 5:00 am ECT and that our National museums are closed in Paris at this time. It's difficult for us to have them open at night for the Public, especially for safety measures (we need a minimum of security and at least 1 fireman), and we are working hard on this. I'll keep you informed |
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May 2 2012, 11:44 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Do we know what the image release policy will be?
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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May 2 2012, 03:05 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
As far as I know, all images from all imaging instruments will be released quickly, same policy as with MER and Cassini. However, I don't know whether the metadata available will be more MER-like or more Cassini-like. Let's hope for the former
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May 2 2012, 03:10 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
I know what i will be doing:
CODE void Agugust5() { if (landed(MSL) == TRUE) { work(myA**, off); } else { write(resume); } } Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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May 2 2012, 04:55 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Oh, that's dark, Paolo! (Welcome back, stranger!)
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May 2 2012, 05:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Dark but very funny.
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