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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Mars Global Surveyor _ Mgs In 'safe Mode'

Posted by: general Sep 4 2005, 04:15 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4213706.stm

Posted by: Guido Sep 7 2005, 04:14 PM

QUOTE (general @ Sep 4 2005, 06:15 PM)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4213706.stm

No info so far on
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/status/reports/msop-mgs.html

Posted by: OWW Sep 9 2005, 11:09 AM

Good news. MGS is taking pictures again.

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/09/09/

Hopefully there's still time to image MPL...

Posted by: djellison Sep 9 2005, 11:15 AM

A new world record - Mike Malin releases an image less than 6 months after it was taken

To be fair - he wasnt too shoddy with the MER stuff, but usually he's terrible!

Doug

Posted by: OWW Sep 9 2005, 01:25 PM

QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 9 2005, 11:15 AM)

A new world record - Mike Malin releases an image less than 6 months after it was taken

Aren't you forgetting the public target page?

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/publicresults/index.html

Posted by: djellison Sep 9 2005, 01:51 PM

I was being Sarcastic...

well, 75% Sarcastic, but 25% truthfull

Doug

Posted by: OWW Sep 9 2005, 02:09 PM

QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 9 2005, 01:51 PM)

75% Sarcastic, but 25% truthfull

Wow, if "usually he's terrible" is 25% truthfull, I'd LOVE to hear some sarcastic "Mars Express image policy" remarks

That reminds me, there's a new Mars Express image. ( Yes, this is no joke )

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMKW9A5QCE_0.html

The previous release was in July. No... not July 2004. So it's not THAT bad.

Posted by: Roby72 Sep 14 2005, 09:44 PM

Was MGS able to image the MPL crash once more after it recovered from its computer glitch ?

Robert

Posted by: Marcel Sep 15 2005, 07:34 AM

September 10th was the last opportunity to image MPL with cProto resolution. That's about a 100 hours ago. I guess you're as eager as me (and others on this forum) to see what happened, but we need some more patience i'm afraid... What i know is that it recovered before that date, however, i don't know about the status of it by the 10th.

What i do know is that imageing the crash site with this technique asks an accuracy in knowledge of the orbital position of MGS to within 30 milliseconds. Hope this knowledge was established before the photo-opportunity, but i am not that optimistic about is.