MSL Post Landing - Commissioning Period & Early Observations, Commissioning Activity Period 1B - Sols 9 through 16 |
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MSL Post Landing - Commissioning Period & Early Observations, Commissioning Activity Period 1B - Sols 9 through 16 |
 Aug 22 2012, 07:36 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63  |
QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Aug 22 2012, 07:01 PM)  Well, there's still the APXS with its half-lives counting down. Eventually integration times will be affected like on Oppy. It's the Mössbauer spectrometre on MERs that has the short (under a year) half-life. The APX's material's half-life is a lot longer, 18 years. That's hardly going to affect us at all. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Aug 22 2012, 07:41 PM
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QUOTE (3d_mars @ Aug 22 2012, 09:25 PM) Hydrogen was also found on the calibration targets on the rover. hydrogen was only found on the first shots to Coronation, so it must be a very thin surficial layer. I was wondering: could this be contamination from hydrazine (N2H4) from the Skycrane exhausts? |
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Aug 22 2012, 08:03 PM
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QUOTE (Paolo @ Aug 22 2012, 10:41 PM) could this be contamination from hydrazine (N2H4) from the Skycrane exhausts? You'd expect N to be in the spectra too (is it?  )
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Aug 22 2012, 08:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 11-December 07 From: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Member No.: 3978 |
'Bradbury Landing', how fitting! The future Martians ought to erect his statue there with plaque that should say 'from here she (Curiosity) took off'.
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Aug 22 2012, 08:08 PM
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 The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
Here's a quick and dirty identification of features from MARDI image (frame # 545) with the image taken after the drive. It really gives a sense of height from which the MARDI image was taken.
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Aug 22 2012, 08:14 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
They turned 120 degrees to the right.
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Aug 22 2012, 08:15 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Aug 22 2012, 12:01 PM) Well, there's still the APXS with its half-lives counting down. Eventually integration times will be affected like on Oppy. You're confusing the APXS with the Mossbauer. The APXS doesn't suffer in the way the Mossbauer does ( at least, not on rover lifetime scales ) |
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Aug 22 2012, 08:17 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10162 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
A couple of goodies here:
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 22 2012, 08:37 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
That's awesome, Phil. Here is your projection superimposed to the MARDI image.
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Aug 22 2012, 08:48 PM
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QUOTE (Pando @ Aug 22 2012, 01:08 PM) Here's a quick and dirty identification of features from MARDI image (frame # 545) with the image taken after the drive. It really gives a sense of height from which the MARDI image was taken. Here's an update based on your image, narrowing it down some more, does this look pretty close?
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Aug 22 2012, 09:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Aug 22 2012, 12:06 PM) Looks like the rover was teleported (ZAP!) to that place. It kind of was... slung beneath a fire-breathing dragon. |
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Aug 22 2012, 09:10 PM
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I didn't hear them say and have not otherwise seen whether the occurrence of this video press conference today cancels out tomorrow's previously planned audio conference or if that audio event is still on for 10:00 PDT Thursday. Does anyone know?
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Aug 22 2012, 09:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10162 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
"does this look pretty close?"
Bring your red arrow down 30% of the way towards your light blue arrow on the polar projection, to another nice little pair of rocks... and others accordingly. 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 PD: 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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Aug 22 2012, 09:33 PM
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Yes, as far as I know there is no briefing tomorrow. Thank goodness.
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Aug 23 2012, 12:06 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 12-March 10 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 5262 |
I just went to NASA TV to watch the replay of today's press conference. It started out playing it then switched to a replay of the landing. Any ideas where else I might find a replay of this press conference? I hate to miss one.
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