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.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 18 2019, 11:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
That surely will be eye candy for us all. I'm not sure what the ongoing plans are for the ICC, but it seems an interesting application which may be of minimal impact to ongoing operations could be to program ICC to snap a picture at the same time(s) every sol, eventually due to the ICC unique stable viewpoint and timing for a full Mars year would result in a very stable 25 second time lapse highlighting primarily the tau and seasonal changes framed with a sidebar showing weather data at the time of each image, for what that is worth. So far the timing of the ICC has seemed sporadic from day to day based on need, so by chance finding suitable frames to put together something comparable seems hit or miss for now, but going forward it would be enriching if something like that can happen.
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Apr 19 2019, 01:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2430 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
...to program ICC to snap a picture at the same time(s) every sol... That's a great idea, I hope they do that, but I also hope it would not be too difficult to ensure they acquire the images at the same local solar time(s) each sol and possibly at the same manual exposure setting(s) so we can see the subtle effects of the lightening and darkening with the changing tau rather than auto exposure settings that tends to even things out. I realise we will eventually get the exposure data but the PDS is always a long way behind citizen processing Talking of PDS, anyone heard any whispers on when we will see the first PDS data entries for this mission? After all we're approaching 5 months since landing (144 earth days) |
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