HiRISE and Mars Polar Lander |
HiRISE and Mars Polar Lander |
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Dec 6 2006, 02:05 PM
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Looking at the images of the Spirit/Opportunity landing site, it seems many of the features such as tracks and rocket blast markings have faded considerably often to the point of being invisible in the nearly three years since landing.
This had me thinking about the MGS images taken in the hope of finding MPL. Initially it was reported that MGS had spotted the lander, one image had a white spot/streak interpreted as the parachute and a dark patch with a spot in the centre not too far off, taken to be the blast zone of the rockets with the lander in the centre. However another image taken 5 years later seemed to discount this theory - the features had faded or changed significantly. BUT, seeing how much the rover sites have changed in an even shorter time, wouldn't the same happen to the MPL site in 5 years - perhaps to an even greater degree with the more extreme seasonal changes at that location. Also, the latest HiRISE images show just how difficult it has been to spot the landers on the surface with MGS, the Viking sites in particular. I hope HiRISE takes another look at this spot. Mars Polar Lander NOT Found, MSSS article: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/10/17/ |
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Jan 12 2010, 03:08 AM
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Jan 13 2010, 01:36 AM
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Tanya, let me be the first to welcome you to unmannedspaceflight.com! I'm sure I can speak for all the members when I say I'm looking forward to your perspective on stuff in space! CTX doesn't get nearly enough love -- just by posting here you'll help to get it a little more attention. [But ewww, a Wesleyan grad. Go Ephs.] Thanks! CTX is definitely under-appreciated by both the public and the scientific community. It is an AMAZING dataset, and the images are simply stunning. Part of my job is to look at every image that comes back from CTX each day, and I never get tired of it. Here is a CTX image (P22_009725_2484_XI_68N125W) of Phoenix from back in August 2008; admittedly, this doesn't showcase the CTX at its best as the image is a bit murky, but that's hard to avoid at the Phoenix landing site: -------------------- Twitter: @tanyaofmars
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