GRAIL: New DISCOVERY mission to the moon |
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GRAIL: New DISCOVERY mission to the moon |
 Dec 18 2012, 12:25 AM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 16-October 12 From: Pennsylvania Member No.: 6711  |
This was probably the most exciting moon mission possible next to a sample return or human landing.
Congratulations GRAIL! You've made history. |
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Dec 18 2012, 01:55 AM
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And two new holes in the ground at that
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Dec 18 2012, 06:38 AM
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Just a final contribution...
Thank you GRAIL.
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Dec 23 2012, 04:26 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10145 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Ebb, one of the GRAIL spacecraft, made some final images from very low orbit which can be seen here:
http://images.moonkam.ucsd.edu/v/ebbs_last_images/ Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Dec 31 2012, 05:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2077 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Any news from LRO? I see nothing on the main website or camera's individual site. We're past full moon by now.
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Dec 31 2012, 02:17 PM
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Even if they do have an image, which they might not, I'm not surprised to see nothing right now. It's New Year's Eve, and last week was a holiday. NASA won't release something when they don't expect anybody will be paying attention.
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Jan 2 2013, 11:54 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 31 2012, 03:17 PM)  Even if they do have an image, which they might not, I'm not surprised to see nothing right now. It's New Year's Eve, and last week was a holiday. NASA won't release something when they don't expect anybody will be paying attention. Lol, that depends who you work for, last week was a 2 day break......Also I worked New Years eve too, as I am sure millions of us did. |
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Jan 2 2013, 04:39 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10145 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
One other point - LRO is in a higher orbit now so the small GRAIL craters will be very small in the images. It may be easier to locate them if the new images have illumination very similar to the older ones. That could take months to arrange. So I expect they will take images every time they are over the mountain, but any announcement might take longer.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 2 2013, 05:30 PM
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Moreover - just because a site is in sunlight doesn't mean LRO is going to be over it quickly - the groundtrack of the orbit has to be taken into consideration also and it might be several cycles ( lunar days ) before a good view is available.
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Jan 11 2013, 01:33 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10145 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Final (or nearly final, not sure yet) video from GRAIL, three days before impact:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.php?id=1181 Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 11 2013, 04:29 AM
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I found it interesting to realize that the 10km altitude of that video above the moon is about the same altitude as jet planes fly above Earth.
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Jan 11 2013, 07:12 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
As far as I know - those were the last frames taken by MoonKAM - I got the raw frames from Sally Ride Science last week ( although they've been on their website for a while ) and just did a bit of deinterlacing and rotating to get the best I could out of them.
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Jan 11 2013, 08:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Thoroughly impressed by the MoonKam project as an education tool.
Throughout 2012 I did as much as possible to encourage students to give it a try. Wonderful to see those final frames blended into such a great film. Nice job Doug. Can't wait to see the results from the JunoCam project in 2016. |
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Jan 11 2013, 08:49 AM
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Few weeks ago I did two animations from those images, but I was too lazy to finish my blog entry about them
 .Faster version (timewarp 5×) is available here. Slow (~realtime) version is available here. My animations are without some images in the beginning of the NASA's video, because they weren't published (yet?).  .
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Jan 11 2013, 04:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2511 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jan 11 2013, 01:24 AM) Can't wait to see the results from the JunoCam project in 2016. Note that there is no hardware commonality between MoonKAM and Junocam. And you won't have to wait until 2016; the Juno Earth flyby is happening this year (9 October). -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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