Lunokhod 2 found! .... and guess who found it? |
Lunokhod 2 found! .... and guess who found it? |
Mar 17 2010, 12:33 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 289 |
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Mar 17 2010, 01:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
We read it here first.
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Mar 17 2010, 02:17 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Congrats to Phil!
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Mar 17 2010, 02:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
The Register's article is occasionally amusing and surprisingly thorough; I really liked this line:
"NASA released a fresh batch of LRO imagery this week, and Ontario based moon-map boffin Phil Stooke was on it like a rat up a drainpipe looking for the lost Lunokhod." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/17/lunokhod_2_located/ |
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Mar 17 2010, 04:03 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I got a good laugh out of that one.
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Mar 17 2010, 04:49 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Rat up a drainpipe - good one! Very Barry McKenzie!
OK people, much though it pains me to say this, I have to set the record straight. I have just had an email from Sasha Basilevsky... his colleague Sergei Gerasimov has a correction to this story. I attach an image annotated by Sasha but based on Sergei's work. The dark spot I noted is adjacent to the little crater where the soil-on-the-radiator accident happened. It must be a 'donut' caused by a turn in place after escaping from the crater. I was trying to figure out why those tracks south of the rover looked double - Sergei's image shows that Lunokhod 2 drove south again over its old tracks, then turned east and north - I missed those fainter tracks. And at the top of them is a very bright spot which is in fact Lunokhod 2. So I was wrong. As so often in the past! Sorry about that. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 17 2010, 05:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
One more slip-up like that Phil and you'll have to turn in your "boffin" credentials.
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Mar 17 2010, 06:38 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Phil, you've even made the headlines on FARK!
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5117400 "Hello, this is Phil. We found your lost vehicle. You had crashed it in a different place than you thought. But it's still on the Moon..."
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Mar 17 2010, 06:39 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 23-February 09 From: Edmonton, Alberta Member No.: 4611 |
One more slip-up like that Phil and you'll have to turn in your "boffin" credentials. Wrong or not you made cbc.ca too http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03...er-picture.html |
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Mar 17 2010, 06:41 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Cincinnati, Ohio Member No.: 758 |
Well the Hollywood types claim that the worst publicity is NO publicity. So L2 is north and east and the blotchy pixels are the "dirt in the cover" crater?
I call it two mysteries solved, Phil, and bravo to you for digging in there and bravo to Sasha Basilevsky and Sergei Gerasimenko for putting the matter to rest. Rob |
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Mar 17 2010, 06:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Hey Phil,
Alot of LRO images were released this week and I think I can show you where to find the Russian landers and a rover...! ...oh wait... ...never mind.... <congrats!, Selene continues to smile on you! > pdp8e -------------------- CLA CLL
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Mar 17 2010, 07:59 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Phil...you fluffy canadian astronomer...come here and let me hug you!
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Mar 17 2010, 08:18 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Phil, details aside, you rock; incredible work!!!
(And yes, I do say that to all the cartographers I know!) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 18 2010, 04:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
i just read this over at /.
and was about to post QUOTE A professor of geography, Phil Stooke, solved the 37-year-old space mystery of the disappearance of the Lunokhod 2 using images released by NASA. well good for you and congrats. |
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Mar 18 2010, 01:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Congrats Phil! Awesome find!
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