InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022 |
InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022 |
Nov 26 2018, 08:20 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Congratulations to the InSight team on a successful landing! We'll discuss the remainder of the mission here.
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Jan 15 2019, 10:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2430 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
Sol 48 images are on the server link
Looks like they called for a change of tack and positioned the grapple over the tether pinning mass. Not sure if there are more images in the sequence, but they appear to have moved the arm away from SEIS, so it looks like there will be no more. I guess they will review these images to see how close they were to alignment and then decide the next step. Here is a processed and reduced GIF using some of the IDC frame |
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Jan 15 2019, 11:14 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Odd they could not grab the ball, they must have done it dozens of times on Earth.
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Jan 15 2019, 08:48 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 317 |
Odd they could not grab the ball, they must have done it dozens of times on Earth. Well, according to elakdawalla a few posts back who quoted Bruce Banerdt, they frequently miss the "grab" on earth too. I guess they will have to do some more testing to make the procedure work successfully more often or maybe they will just accept it takes a few tries. We'll see. |
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