GRAIL: New DISCOVERY mission to the moon |
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GRAIL: New DISCOVERY mission to the moon |
 Jan 11 2013, 05:50 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 11 2013, 02:33 AM)  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 Is it too late to send a message to Grail telling it to turn it's phone horizontal? |
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Jan 11 2013, 07:00 PM
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The cameras were bolted to the spacecraft in that orientation probably about two years ago - and now lay smashed on the lunar surface.
I'm going to say yes...it's a bit too late. |
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Jan 11 2013, 07:53 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 11 2013, 07:00 PM) The cameras were bolted to the spacecraft in that orientation probably about two years ago.... Yes, we know -- it was a joke. |
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Jan 17 2013, 03:13 PM
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Here's an updated version of my Nearside Moon map with the GRAIL impacts added.
Phil
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 17 2013, 04:23 PM
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Is this farside map of yours still current? Trying to make sure I have a matched set
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Jan 17 2013, 05:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4587 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yes it is - no more farside impacts. Incidentally, Chandrayaan-1 was predicted to impact in 2012 as its orbit evolved, but as it was not tracked or trackable we don't know where it fell.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 19 2013, 10:47 PM
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LROC spots craters formed by GRAIL probes (sorry I couldn't find the original paper in the conference abstracts):
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/1...oon-probes?lite |
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Mar 19 2013, 10:55 PM
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Wow. LROC is an impressive instrument indeed, and their science team is getting very good at this sort of thing. Well done!!!
-------------------- 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 20 2013, 03:42 AM
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There is no abstract, this was a press conference, not a paper. It's cool to see this even with LRO in its higher orbit.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 21 2013, 09:46 PM
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Better images and text at the NASA/LROC site:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news...il-results.html -------------------- |
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Apr 3 2013, 02:11 PM
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How accurate were the pre-impact predictions?
Here is an overlay of the pre-impact prediction on the new topo map showing the actual impact crater locations. B was nearly 1000 m off its prediction, A only about 600 m. Not bad! Phil
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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