SMART-1 impact, September 2006 |
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SMART-1 impact, September 2006 |
 Aug 30 2006, 05:42 PM
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Some more undistorted (?) images from the star tracker here:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMPFY5LARE_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 30 2006, 06:08 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Rodolfo asked about the impact area - it's still in the same general area, as this map shows:
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 30 2006, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Many thanks for sharing us. What ways will confirm about the impact site?
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Aug 30 2006, 08:28 PM
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QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Aug 30 2006, 09:03 PM)  Many thanks for sharing us. What ways will confirm about the impact site?
Rodolfo Source : Ciel et Espace of September 2006 ESA has organised of network from South Africa to Hawaii able to observe the moon from 7pm to 8 am. Two instruments will be able to detect the melt of aluminium : VLT (in Chile) and Salt in South Africa. Rodolfo, you've rigth in the good spot  . Nevertheless, they say that, due to some hills on the way of the trajectory, impact could occurs 5 to 7 hours before. They'll know better the day before the crash.
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Aug 30 2006, 08:29 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 30 2006, 01:36 PM) Latest news - Star Tracker images: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMPFY5LARE_0.html They are reproduced quite dark, but look what happens if you brighten them and do a little reprojection work Great work, Phil. Cannot avoid to process a couple of these images, they are very nice especially after jpeg+interlace removal:
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Aug 30 2006, 09:23 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Updating on the impact point: here:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=39890 is a map of the impact point on a base made of AMIE images. Note that the impact points on my just-posted map are really perilune points, and the impact will occur slightly north of them. I'll fix that. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 31 2006, 09:09 AM
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Foreseen operational duration:
2-2.5 years Well...It will last more 5 months and one week than the 2.5 years predicted... You can't rely a mission timetable anymore...  Edited: Humm...I was counting with the 14 months transfer period...That doesn't count, doesn't it? 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Aug 31 2006, 02:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Some Italian radio astronomers are conducting live tests for the upcoming impact:
http://www.geocities.com/priapus_dionysos/bsih.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Sep 2 2006, 09:14 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Aug 31 2006, 02:27 PM) Some Italian radio astronomers are conducting live tests for the upcoming impact: http://www.geocities.com/priapus_dionysos/bsih.html They say: QUOTE The Italian team may thus have a chance to see the crash from Noto only that would be otherwise impossible to see at 5:40 UT because the moon will be below the horizon. But, based on the last update, impact will occur tomorrow morning, at 5:42 UT! This is a very bad new, also because europeans will not be able to see impact...  Hope some friend across ocean will do fo us!
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Sep 2 2006, 06:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
A new ESA update today, as SMART-1 recovers from a tense 6 hours in "Safe Mode"
and the impact has been delayed by 1 minute as the orbit was raised by 592 meters due to terrain uncertainties details in the link below, first 2 paragrahs reads as follows: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMV386LARE_0.html Intense final hours for SMART-1 2 September 2006 The final days of SMART-1's spectacularly successful mission have seen intense activity including a successful recovery from safe mode as mission controllers manoeuvre the craft into a planned Moon crash landing, newly estimated for 07:42 CEST Sunday, 3 September. A tense, 6-hour recovery from an unexpected safe mode activation, one of the quickest in recent ESA spacecraft operations memory, allowed manoeuvres to proceed nominally during the night of 1-2 September aimed at avoiding a premature Moon impact. |
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Sep 2 2006, 06:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
QUOTE (dilo @ Sep 2 2006, 04:14 AM) They say: But, based on the last update, impact will occur tomorrow morning, at 5:42 UT! This is a very bad new, also because europeans will not be able to see impact... Hope some friend across ocean will do fo us! Cheer up! Don't sleep overnight!  Rodolfo |
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Sep 2 2006, 09:55 PM
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An animation made of some star tracker images from 1 Sept is available.
Article Full animation (.wmv - 1730 kb) |
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Sep 2 2006, 11:46 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Nice. The bright crater they mention is Aristarchus.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 2 2006, 11:54 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This is Clementine long wavelength infrared - the best resolution except for the HIRES camera, which only worked well near the poles - at the SMART-1 impact site. The target is slightly east of this strip. I'm looking at the next strip over now.
Phil
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 3 2006, 12:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
A new update from Spaceflightnow.com
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0609/02smart1/ first few paragraphs below, has a few more tidbits compared to the ESA new release Europe's lunar orbiter to impact the moon Sunday BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: September 2, 2006 A European space probe is just hours away from a violent crash into the lunar surface that ground-based scientists hope will help answer debated questions about the Moon's sub-surface. The exact timing of the impact remains unknown, but European Space Agency officials say their most recent estimates place the event at 0542 GMT (1:42 a.m. EDT) Sunday morning. |
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