Unmanned landing sites from LRO, Surveyors, Lunas, Lunakhods and impact craters from hardware impacts |
Unmanned landing sites from LRO, Surveyors, Lunas, Lunakhods and impact craters from hardware impacts |
Sep 7 2009, 07:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I figured it was time to begin a thread like this, especially since some of us may still be looking for the Surveyor III retro motor casing (assuming the bright dot to the north of the landing site isn't it).
We ought to be seeing some of the other Surveyors fairly soon, I would think. We know most of their locations pretty accurately. Again, I think there is a lot to be gained, both from scientific and engineering standpoints, from detailed imaging of the Surveyor VII landing site, just to mention one. And I really want to see how visible the Lunakhod tracks are as opposed to the MET and LRV tracks. So... until we begin to see images of other unmanned hardware (or the craters caused by same), we could always discuss comparisons of Surveyor III surface imagery to the new LROC images of its landing site here. I'm especially taken by how you can resolve many of the blocks in Block Crater in the LROC image, which gives you a good feel for the explosive nature of the ejecta and roughly where in the ejecta plume a given block might have come from. Might be interesting/useful to apply this information to the samples taken at that location. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Oct 31 2020, 06:31 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That's quite a good match to nearby features, better than what I usually see. I have highlighted one object which I think should be very apparent in the images but is missing. I feel that the feature in the area of my 'crater E' should be more prominent.
I don't mean to be eternally negative, but this is a very difficult problem to solve and only the most convincing evidence is good enough. It would be useful to know where this is. The issue of the mountains near the usually reported position has to be addressed. Shan had previously suggested a location in the hills south of the usual position but I didn't like the topography nearby which I felt would not allow a flat horizon to the south and west. 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 PDF: 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 1 2020, 05:13 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: 7-October 20 Member No.: 8895 |
That's quite a good match to nearby features, better than what I usually see. I have highlighted one object which I think should be very apparent in the images but is missing. I feel that the feature in the area of my 'crater E' should be more prominent. I don't mean to be eternally negative, but this is a very difficult problem to solve and only the most convincing evidence is good enough. It would be useful to know where this is. The issue of the mountains near the usually reported position has to be addressed. Shan had previously suggested a location in the hills south of the usual position but I didn't like the topography nearby which I felt would not allow a flat horizon to the south and west. Phil Sent you the co-ordinates in a message with links Yes there is something visible as you said see the below images and One is the normalized without any zoom & another one is a zoomed in picture.. And also attached a Gif of the same area under different lighting conditions & the object lighting remains almost the same with darkness underneath due to soil disturbance? There are some debris to the South East side but I don't see any craters ( The images I have attached here are 0.44m resolution) |
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