ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
Aug 12 2016, 07:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 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 PD: 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 26 2016, 09:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
I agree with mcaplinger: Landing on Mars should not be that hard from software perspective
Flight/lander software is robust (50 yrs of it) and even newer and tested architectures are out there (Deep Space 1, Remote Agent, late 90s) An executive like Remote Agent could have said something like: "No Parachute, listen to me, not the Radars, stay with me until I say so...we are on a timeline and we have minutes to go....and as for you Radar, stop sending me crap, and get me good altitude and velocity and quit scaring Parachute... and Rockets, don't even think about firing for only 3 seconds.... everybody get back on the script, and back on the timeline..." -------------------- CLA CLL
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