ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
Aug 12 2016, 07:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Starting a new topic here - hopefully that's OK! Clearly there will be a lot of action around this in the next weeks and months with descent images and HiRISE views of the hardware.
I thought I had posted this map earlier but apparently not. This shows the various landing ellipses in this area. The original plan was for an ellipse oriented NW-SE, but it changed with the different launch date and is now nearly E-W. Note that the ellipse shown in the recent ESA release is the envelope of all ellipses over a given launch period, but the actual landing ellipse for the given launch date is smaller. Opportunity's final landing ellipse is shown for comparison. http://exploration.esa.int/mars/57445-exom...6-landing-site/ http://exploration.esa.int/mars/57446-exom...6-landing-site/ Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 20 2016, 08:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Staying up late for the conference; looks like all the data from the descent was collected and is being processed (which will take a few days) and confirmation that ground radar was activated and that the rockets fired for at least a few seconds. So all key pieces of hardware did fire and they have telemetry (600 megs!). There will be attempts in the coming days to takes MRO images, but it may be a while to find something that small in the images.
Signal was lost about 50 seconds before planned touchdown. When parachute/backshell should have detached from the lander received telemetry started to deviated from expected. Multiple possibilities on what happened after, and they won't speculate yet. May try to send reset commands in a few days. AMELIA instrument got science data though, so good news for them! Hopefully the media will chalk this up as at least a partial success. |
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