MASCOT landing on Ryugu, 3 October 2018 |
MASCOT landing on Ryugu, 3 October 2018 |
Oct 2 2018, 04:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1440 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 twitter account reports that the spacecraft has begun descending toward Ryugu in preparation to deploy the MASCOT lander. Nothing on the English twitter as of the time of this post.
https://twitter.com/haya2_jaxa/status/1046965970466746369 -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Apr 21 2020, 03:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79 |
When looking at pictures of the surface of Ryugu, I always feel hard to estimate the scale: are these rocks or pebbles? How big are these rocks ? Obviously, scalebar helps but I find more helpful to add objects of everyday life to the pictures or people to give the scale.
Here is the result I obtained with Hayabusa 2 and MASCam pictures, adding Harrison Schmitt or a pencil on them. For pictures with no scalebar, I computed the scaled "Harrison Schmitt" on the basis of MASCam FOV, altitude at which pictures were taken and horizontal distance to the object. -------------------- |
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Apr 28 2020, 08:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 436 Joined: 14-December 15 Member No.: 7860 |
...Here is the result I obtained with Hayabusa 2 and MASCam pictures, adding Harrison Schmitt or a pencil on them... Excellent and very useful! Such photomontage currently probably best reflects the feeling of being on the surface of this little world (which probably will never happen to any of us ) |
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