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 18 2019, 08:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
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Jan 18 2019, 11:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
What sort of things do you think they might do with the cameras once all the important instruments are deployed and working? Mosaic of the soil near the lander? A nice time lapse showing a complete Martian sol at maybe one frame a minute?
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Jan 18 2019, 11:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2430 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
What sort of things do you think they might do with the cameras once all the important instruments are deployed and working? Good question: I got the impression that once the robotic arm had completed the deployment of the instruments it would return to the deck for the remainder of the mission. If that's the case, then the IDC camera will have a limited view of one section of the horizon that we saw just after landing, but without SEIS on the deck the view of the terrain will be a little wider. The wide angle ICC camera is finally getting rid of some of its dust (well spotted vikingmars) but we probably have a while to wait before it gets fully clean (if at all)... I guess they could use the ICC to get images of the instrument umbilical tethers from time to time to see if they have been lifted by the wind and could cause issues to SEIS through vibrations etc. I guess they could do long term change detection surveys at the same solar time of day, or even occasional dust devil surveys to back up the data from TWINS and the pressure sensor. I guess that there are plenty more things they could do, but much of that likely depends on the amount of bandwidth they are allocated to send all the data back to Earth. BTW: Anyone seen any wind speed / direction data from TWINS, I checked out the Spanish web site that reports on the REMS for MSL but can't find anything. It would be good to hear that they are working as expected, even if we dont have the data yet. |
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