Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Sep 23 2014, 12:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1084 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Now, it's time to open a new section devoted to the landing of the Philae lander itself on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G. Also to answer better the earlier post, http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=212943 and for your information, here is the quick summary (as a "pdf" file) of the events that are expected to occur during landing on the nucleus and after : it's the timeschedule on which we are working to set up our EPO event in Paris. Sequence_ATTERRISSAGE10_UMSF.pdf ( 263.81K ) Number of downloads: 4544 The landing itself should occur around November 11th. We'll keep you informed |
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Sep 23 2014, 06:47 PM
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I don't believe they'll be taking a lot of descent images....indeed, there's not much point. OSIRIS resolution will out-perform that of the descent imaging until we're pretty close to the surface. One before bettering OSIRIS res , one at some intermediate point, one just before touch-down.....that would be enough for a very good localization.
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Sep 23 2014, 08:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1084 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
I don't believe they'll be taking a lot of descent images....indeed, there's not much point. OSIRIS resolution will out-perform that of the descent imaging until we're pretty close to the surface .../... Yes, Doug : indeed ! OSIRIS has a far better resolution than ROLIS from orbit. This is why ROLIS will take just a few images during the descent. BUT at a low altitude (i.e. tens of meters from the surface) and until touchdown, it will start taking one image every 5 seconds... |
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