ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
Aug 12 2016, 07:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10183 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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Nov 20 2016, 08:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 149 Joined: 18-June 08 Member No.: 4216 |
It would also be interesting to know how the financing of the different components of Exomars
was handled within the overall budget for the mission. For instance, did TGO and Schiaparelli have their own "ringfenced" budgets or was it possible to raid the budget of one to pay for the other? |
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Nov 20 2016, 05:05 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Shouldn't the title of the topic be changed to "...attempted Schiaparelli landing" seeing as it was not successful ?
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Nov 20 2016, 06:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2517 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Shouldn't the title of the topic be changed to "...attempted Schiaparelli landing" seeing as it was not successful ? The word "landing" doesn't imply success. See exchange below. QUOTE WASH Yeah, well, if she doesn't give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burnthrough this landing is gonna get pretty interesting. MAL Define "interesting". WASH (deadpan) "Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?" MAL (hits the com) This is the Captain. There's a little problem with our entry sequence; we may experience slight turbulence and then... explode. (to Wash, exiting) Can you shave the vector -- WASH I'm doing it! It's not enough. (hits com) Kaylee! MAL Just get us on the ground! WASH That part'll happen pretty definitely. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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