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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
We're now 45 days from landing, so as of 23 Jun please post all comments related to the end of the transit to Mars here.
Go Curiosity!!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Founder ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 ![]() |
...but it sounds like MSL has to transmit after touchdown in order to send its EDL after ODY comes into view, so i'll have to keep chewing my fingernails over worst case scenario being EDL failure and total loss of data with no chance to analyze and learn... so after fingernails gone, proceed to toenails.. no? No. MRO will still be in place to listen to and record all of the realtime EDL telemetry that Odyssey would have been relaying in realtime. If Odyssey is not there, we will still get everything MSL will transmit - simply delayed by a few hours as MRO downlinks and the ground team process and decode that recording. Wouldn't some limited direct transmit get recorded from Earth? As the press kit describes, there are direct to earth X-band tones, just like Pathfinder and MER. However - the Earth sets behind the vehicle somewhere between chute deployment and heatshield deployment, so they will be lost at that time. |
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