Viking Landers, Book and website recommendations Options

[SFJCody]

I'm looking for resources that give a sol by sol account of lander activities.

Example (in German):

Sol 1

Are there any English websites like this?

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Cody, there're some web-resources I'll take a look to that later, for the moment I can just recommend You my weblog with my collection of Mars-exploration related literature:
Interested in buying some of those books, let me know and I'll point You to resources for these
http://mars-literature.skynetblogs.be/

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

For those building a VIKING scale model there's:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/realspace/viking.html

a good resource

[Phil Stooke]

I don't think there is any site like that, but it would be a great contribution... if somebody wanted to devote their lives to it! And Pathfinder/Sojourner as well.

This also makes me think... that if some of our great mappers were so inclined, the Viking 1 and 2 pans could be reprojected into polar and vertical forms. I did some polars but they need re-doing at high resolution. Now I remember I said I would do that ages ago for one of our occasional posters, and I completely forgot to do it. Better get to it!

Phil

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Here's another Viking Lander resource website ... it's about the third actual 'Flight' lander which was preserved at Washington University:

http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/LF..._vcf/node1.html

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Phil,
That would indeed be great I guess a day-by-day ( sol-by-sol ) account of the VIKING landers could be done in some way by using the NASA Viking Lander Imaging catalogs.
Buth then again it would be a heavy job as Viking Lander 1 functioned untill November 1982 ...
To be continued...

[Bob Shaw]

For those building a VIKING scale model there's:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/realspace/viking.html

a good resource 

If anyone is looking for models of unmanned spacecraft, and isn't a hard-core model-maker, then try eBay. If you search for 'Takara Viking Lander' you'll find a lovely little semi-assembled model - even the most fumble-fingered can finish it, as it's 99% done for you! In the same series are such items as as Voyager, Lunokhod, Ranger, Mars-3, and Sputnik-1. A bit of creative searching will also throw up similar models of manned vehicles.

If you're lucky you may even find the 1/32 MER diecast, too!

Bob Shaw

[Guest_RGClark_*]

I'm looking for resources that give a sol by sol account of lander activities.

Example (in German):

Sol 1

Are there any English websites like this?

I don't know a book that gives a day by day account of the Viking landers. However, this book does give an excellent detailed review of the Viking life experiments:

The search for life on Mars : evolution of an idea.
Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1980.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0030461669/


- Bob Clark

[vikingmars]

OK. I have one (sorry in French, but technical terms are mostly the same) : it was published inside a compilation I issued in 2000 from my personal archives and work done with JPL. It still serves some NASA friends as historical reference.
Please, tell me how I can paste a word document with rows and columns...

I'm looking for resources that give a sol by sol account of lander activities.

Example (in German):

Sol 1

Are there any English websites like this?

[mike]

You could try exporting the Word document to a format some other program will read and see if that program handles copying and pasting tables better.

Offhand it might work to export it to .HTML and load it in IE or Firefox or Opera, which I seem to recall all handle tables well.. and yeah, I've tried to copy and paste tables in Word myself, and it's odd that Microsoft didn't make it actually work (the same seems to apply to Excel, from what I vaguely remember).

[vikingmars]

Thanks Mike !
OK, so I try the simplest mean : here is the Word document : it's not a day-to-day account, but the synthesis of dates of importance for the Viking mission on Mars (orbiters & landers).
Enjoy !

Attached File(s)

 ANNEXE_II_seule.doc ( 115K ) Number of downloads: 531

 

[ljk4-1]

Postflight simulation of parachute deployment dynamics of Viking qualification flight tests

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1973022109.pdf

[Phil Stooke]

This is a follow-up from post number 4:

A circular version of a Viking 1 panorama. But this is a special version: I took the Camera 1 and Camera 2 pans, using Camera 2 to fill the gap in the Camera 1 pan, but went further by using parts of the Camera 2 pan to patch over any part of the spacecraft which was blocking the horizon in the Camera 1 pan. Result - a completely unobstructed 360 degree horizon. I will post other versions of this later.

DD - I'll get a full res version to you.

Phil

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

I promised some time back to provide the details on the cancelled "Viking 3" mobile-lander mission, on which I was lucky enough to get a publicly unreleased detailed document about 15 yers ago. Believe me, I will do so as soon as I get a few other preliminary tasks done. It resembled, more than anything else, a much shorter-range version of MSL.

[Bob Shaw]

Phil:

That's great - is there a 'panorama' panorama of it, too? You know what I mean!

Bob Shaw