MAVEN commissioning & Siding Spring encounter |
MAVEN commissioning & Siding Spring encounter |
Sep 22 2014, 02:27 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Congratulations to the whole MAVEN team for a successful orbit insertion yesterday. Here's a look at what we can expect for the next 7 weeks of the mission:
First week after MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion (Sep 21-28)
Second week after MAVEN arrival (Sep 29-Oct 4)
Third week after MAVEN arrival (Oct 5-11)
Fourth week after MAVEN arrival (Oct 12-18)
Fifth week after MAVEN arrival (Oct 19-25)
Sixth week after MAVEN arrival (Oct 26-Nov 1)
Seventh week after MAVEN arrival (Nov 2-8)
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Sep 23 2014, 01:33 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The Onion is a parody website......they don't actually care if it's taking pictures or not.
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Sep 23 2014, 02:20 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
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Sep 23 2014, 03:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: 9-August 11 From: Mason, TX Member No.: 6108 |
Some people need to get out more, if they think The Onion is an actual news site. Y Bar Ranch's response was ironic parody itself (and brilliant at that). Whether intentional or not, the Onion parody actually makes a point that the public tends to value planetary research for its more banal byproducts (heck, I use these desktop shots all the time). But Maven's sense of smell and electromagnetic fields is the real story here. Maven brings to the Mars research team some of the out-of-band situational insights that Geordi La Forge and Deanna Troi brought to the STNG team. Maven's as-it-were ESP (new sensors in the regime) will afford some unique insights into the physics of this near encounter with Comet Siding-Spring. What an incredible circumstance for Maven to be in place just in time, and I fervently hope MOM can contribute as well. I understand that MOM will be using a number of small thrusters along with its main engine meaning that it may have low intrinsic brightness anyway. -------------------- --
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Sep 23 2014, 05:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
I understand that MOM will be using a number of small thrusters along with its main engine meaning that it may have low intrinsic brightness anyway. Do these burns actually produce a visible "flame". We are used to seeing huge rocket plumes during launches, but already the exhaust from a second stage engine is all but invisible (for example the Falcon 9 second stage, as we can see from the in-board cameras). The engine for MOI is certainly much less powerful than that, so I guess you wouldn't see anything from hundreds of km away. |
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