Sol 3 and onwards - imaging |
Sol 3 and onwards - imaging |
May 28 2008, 06:27 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Keeping with the practice of sol-by-sol discussions, here it is.
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May 29 2008, 11:29 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 5-October 06 Member No.: 1227 |
Is there a way to know when each day's pictures will be made available?
Is there a site with scheduling information for when the expected 'afternoon' downlink will take place? (This way we can set an alarm to check instead of doing bandwidth wasting polling of the phoenix image gallery website). Will the downlinks occur approx 39 minutes later each day because the sol is longer than a day? |
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May 30 2008, 12:55 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 17-May 08 Member No.: 4114 |
Will the downlinks occur approx 39 minutes later each day because the sol is longer than a day? You'd expect this to be roughly true since they'd try to return the data at the end of each sol, but keep in mind that also depends on when the orbiter doing the relay (currently Odyssey, but also including MRO once they figure out the radio issue) has a good pass. Odysseys orbital period is about two hours, and not every pass is favorable. Then the orbiter has to return the data via DSN which has it's on scheduling issues. So my outsiders guess is it will be ~40 minutes later every day on average, but +/- a couple of hours on any given day. A publicly accessible schedule would be awesome |
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