MSL Video |
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Jun 5 2006, 08:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
Saw the MSL video, which was similar to the MER video. It was awesome. Will try to get a copy
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Jun 6 2006, 12:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-April 05 Member No.: 358 |
Saw the MSL video, which was similar to the MER video. It was awesome. Will try to get a copy http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/multimedia/...x_animation.php |
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Jun 6 2006, 04:23 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-March 05 Member No.: 198 |
Very nice, but that video's for the 2007 Phoenix lander, not the 2009 MSL rover. ====== Stephen |
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Jun 6 2006, 12:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
-------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Jun 6 2006, 02:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
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Jun 6 2006, 04:46 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 17-May 05 From: FL & WV Member No.: 390 |
--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toma B @ Jun 6 2006, 08:31 AM) </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Where did you saw it Jim? MSL PDR It looks like they have a place on the MSL web site where the video will be added (hopefully soon): http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/gallery/ Ron Jones |
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Jun 6 2006, 05:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
There is GIGANTIC image of MSL here.
Link to 25 MB jpeg image... Is that maybe still from that animation you were talking about Jim? Looks to me like there is some work to be done on that rendering like adding RTG's... -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Jun 6 2006, 08:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 17-March 05 Member No.: 206 |
B)--> Looks to me like there is some work to be done on that rendering like adding RTG's... [/quote] It is strange that nearly every image of MSL has it without its RTG. Very strange, is it expected to be powered by dark energy? Probably they keep it out of the publicity images to keep a lower profile since there are some groups that adamantly oppose *anything* nuclear. Even peaceful scientific missions... Also, the camera on the mast surprises me. Would they not have two camera's for binocular vision? How can they tell distances without it? |
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Jun 6 2006, 09:07 PM
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It is a stereo camera -- it just doesn't look like one in the drawing. (By the way, the "ChemCam" experiment that will fire a laser at mineral targets as much as a dozen meters away, to obtain instantaneous and sensitive spectra of their element makeup, also includes a black-and-white telescopic targeting camera that will also be used for very high-resolution long-distance images of terrain features.)
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Jun 7 2006, 07:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
One thing that the MERs have shown us is that the surface of rocks on mars can have a substantial rind of altered rock or deposited material and dust coatings. How is the chem cam + laser going to detect the rock underneath this rind and not just the ubiquitous dust covering? Are they going to brush the rocks first then standoff and zap them, my understanding was that the chem cam was going to be a remote sensing instrument (as described by bruce in the above post). Will that be tempered by the need to 'clean' the rock surface first.
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Jun 7 2006, 08:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Any possible use to detect Purgatory's sort of trap ?
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Jun 7 2006, 09:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
For quite a while, I've been frustrated that the rovers can't look under their deck. It would have been helpfull for Purgatory's kind of events. This could have been solved by adding a simple mirror on the IDD so the cameras would have been able to take pictures. A bit tricky but may be an idea for MSL.
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Jun 7 2006, 10:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
This could have been solved by adding a simple mirror on the IDD so the cameras would have been able to take pictures. Voila! And Horton did a nice work on the raw 12-bit images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/161036378/ |
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Jun 7 2006, 03:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
How is the chem cam + laser going to detect the rock underneath this rind and not just the ubiquitous dust covering? The laser itself clears the dust and then vaporizes the rock surface layer by layer for spectroscopic analysis (of the vaporized material, I assume). The area sampled by the laser is 0.5 to 1mm in diameter but I wonder what the maximum depth is that can be reached. There's an interesting pdf power point presentation here: http://libs.lanl.gov/ChemCam_Fact_Sheet.pdf |
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Jun 7 2006, 04:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
[quote name='Tesheiner' date='Jun 7 2006, 12:19 PM' post='57377']
Voila! Do you mean, it's for REAL or is that another trick? If real, don't you think it could have been of some use while stucked in the sand ? -------------------- |
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