“spirit” Cover On Aviation Week: 14 November 2005, Rocky Martian High: Spirit Takes Summit |
“spirit” Cover On Aviation Week: 14 November 2005, Rocky Martian High: Spirit Takes Summit |
Nov 14 2005, 04:57 AM
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“Spirit” Cover on Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine: 14 November 2005
Rocky Martian High: Spirit Takes the Summit “Spirit” at the Summit of Husband Hill appears as the Cover image for the 14 November 2005 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine. The highly detailed 6 page cover package, titled "Rocky Martian High", describes the dramatic flight operations of the JPL/Cornell team as Spirit completed work on a Martian mountaintop: see www.aviationweek.com. The cover photo of Spirit and 2 additional pictures inside (full widescreen view and hazcam of Hillary rock outcrop), were derived by an international team of Mars enthusiasts indicating how outside analysts can use the raw imagery data from the rovers available to everyone. Forum Members picture credit: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Doug Ellison (djellison), Bernhard Braun (nirgal) and Kenneth Kremer (mars loon) View at this link: www.aviationweek.com |
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Dec 1 2005, 08:55 PM
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Dec 2 2005, 11:50 PM
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QUOTE (general @ Dec 1 2005, 09:55 PM) *And* an article about Hayabusa meeting the bodemmonster (presumably a relative of the Great Galactic Ghoul) on planetoide onzeker! That explains *everything*! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Dec 3 2005, 08:47 AM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 3 2005, 12:50 AM) *And* an article about Hayabusa meeting the bodemmonster (presumably a relative of the Great Galactic Ghoul) on planetoide onzeker! That explains *everything*! Bob Shaw Bob, I think you should ask Santa Claus for a good dictionary "Return Hayabusa with asteroid soil sample uncertain" P.S. : I was unable to get any more copies of the newspaper. So I'm pleased to see Nico got some. |
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Dec 3 2005, 10:29 PM
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QUOTE (general @ Dec 3 2005, 09:47 AM) Or wait until I come along: The caption under the photo says: Self portrait The Mars rover Spirit made this self portait on top of the hill "Husband Hill" on Mars. The image has been assembled from several seperate images using a computer. The horizon appears to be round because of the wide angel perspective. Of Spirit itself it are mostly the solarcells that can be seen. Article about Hayabusa: Return Hayabusa with soil sample from astroid is unsure. Spaceflight The probe that took a sample of an astroid perhaps can't return to Earth. The mission of the Japanese unmanned space probe Hayabusa to astroid Itokawa seems to be a string of defects and technical malfunctions. (De Standaard 24 November). But despite the dificulties the craft succeeded in achieving the most important goal of the mission: It took a soil from an astroid for the first time. At the moment however it's unsure if the precious cargo can be returned to Earth, because the probe is suffering from engine troubles. As the probe ascended from the astroid's surface last Saturday, after it collected the soil sample, a leak ocurred in one of it's two the engines. As this happend both engines were shutdown and the onboard computer put the probe in a "safe mode", in which as much systems as possible are shutdown. However, this lead to Hayabusa being unable to control it's attitude in space and the probe began to tumble. This makes communicating with Earth difficult because the antenna can't be pointed anymore. Tuesday the flightcontrollers succeeded in restoring communications with the probe, but they didn't succeed in restoring the probe's orientation. To do that they counted on the non leaking engine, but for unkown reason it didn't operate. Assuming that at least one of the engine is working Hayabusa can only return to Earth after the orientation has been restored. Yesterday the flightcontrollers were still trying to regain control of the probe. Hayabusa has to start the return journey early December the latest. Otherwise it will have to wait another three years before the Earth and the astroid are in the right position again, and it's quite unsure if the probe will last that long. -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Dec 3 2005, 10:46 PM
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Thank you very much, DEChengst!
QUOTE (DEChengst @ Dec 3 2005, 10:29 PM) The image has been assembled from several seperate images using a computer. Hey, considering also other processing operations, we used at least 3 computers! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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