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MRO view of MSL
jmknapp
post Jul 16 2012, 01:21 PM
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Playing around with the latest SPICE kernels posted to the public NAIF website shows two points in the MSL landing sequence where the HiRISE camera is pointed directly at MSL. I made a couple visualizations:

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The red dot is MSL. The field of view of the images is 30° while the HiRISE fov is 1.15°. MRO's pointing direction is taken to be HIRISE_OPTICAL_AXIS.

According to the kernel data, the landing occurs at 05:17:54 UT, so apparently the advertised landing time of 05:31 is Earth-received time. The images show when HIRISE_OPTICAL_AXIS intersects the position of MSL.


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- jmknapp   MRO view of MSL   Jul 16 2012, 01:21 PM
- - djellison   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Jul 16 2012, 06:21 AM) s...   Jul 16 2012, 01:31 PM
- - jmknapp   Here's an animation: MRO looks at Curiosity   Jul 19 2012, 11:34 AM
- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Jul 19 2012, 03:34 AM) H...   Jul 19 2012, 01:27 PM


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