Mars 3 (Various Topics Merged) |
Mars 3 (Various Topics Merged) |
Dec 29 2004, 10:36 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
On my website sometime back, I added a page on the image fragment sent back by the Mars-3 Lander. I released serveral versions, including the best quality processing using othodox techniques I would use on other images plus colorization here:
http://pages.preferred.com/%7Etedstryk/fragmentc.jpg However, I released another image, which I called a "What if" image. This image can be seen here http://pages.preferred.com/%7Etedstryk/m3s5b.jpg It was produced via extreme processing of the original data to make a Mars-like scene, but I made it clear on my website it was only a speculative image. I strongly doubt if the raw data even shows Mars at all - it could be all noise. But since this mode of processing looked strangely Viking-like, I figured I would put it on the web. I was warned by several, who said that while fun, some kooks might take it seriously. My response was that I really don't care what kooks think. Then I noticed this web page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2 They used the overprocessed image. I feel like it is being presented as a true photograph. This is of concern. -------------------- |
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Feb 14 2009, 05:41 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Udon Thani Member No.: 4185 |
Forgot to mention that according to the above reasoning, the crash location of Mars 2 must be to the WEST of Hellas, as we know it entered too steep. So it must be at least 300 km west of its intended spot (atmospheric entry angle must have been more then 5 degrees too steep, otherwise it would have survived), and it is likely no more then let's say 1500 km to the west (given the final orbit of the mothership) but definitely no more then 3100 km west of Hellas (otherwise the mothership would have burned up). It remains a big, big area...
Track projected on Google Mars. If we assume a landing error of 700 km (which correspondents with a most likely offtrack of 150 km, given the mothership entered an orbit with 1350 km perigree instead of 1500 km) then the targeted landing site would be close to 45S 70E which is almost dead centre in Hellas. I am trying to find out whether this area is inside one of the Mariner 7 images. Anyway, no matter how I try I can't get Mars 2 to end up anywhere near 4 N. This also does not work out with the mothership ending up in an orbit with a 49 degree inclination, given the relatively small impuls of the lander-engine the atmospheric entry point must be close to the groundtrack of the mothership, which is conform with the 45 deg South locations but definitely does not work out for any location on the northerly hemisphere. Regards, Geert. |
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