Mercury Flyby 1 |
Mercury Flyby 1 |
Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 258 Joined: 22-December 06 Member No.: 1503 |
40 days and counting. The long wait is almost over!
I wonder whether we will get enough data to test new simulation theories like this one. http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19...solar-wind.html What do you expect from this first flyby? |
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Jan 14 2008, 03:54 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
I am seeing numerous news reports that 700 GBytes of data will be returned by MESSENGER over the next 2 days. This, being an absurd value for reasons too numerous to count, is obviously a result of a bits/bytes or order of magnitude error. So what is the real amount that will be sent back over this flyby? I see that there are 2 banks of 8 Gbit solid state memory, the amount of data sent back on the Venus flyby was 6 GBITS at 600 images and there should be double that number on the Mercury flyby, the average bitrate at Mercury is 18 Kbit/s and the expected data return for 1 year after orbit insertion is only 135 Gbits................. an obvious actual value for this flyby is not jumping out at me....
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Jan 14 2008, 09:15 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Jan 14 2008, 09:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Wow, that last image really shows detail. Looks like they deconvolved it already, unlike the last 4 shots. It doesn't show any blur anymore. MDIS cameras may not be awesome cameras in terms of resolution, but they sure produce nice, sharp images.
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