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post Oct 16 2019, 06:19 PM
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Sirius. Neither moon enters ICC field of view.
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post Oct 16 2019, 08:05 PM
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Thanks, Deimos. Makes sense: centre of field of view very roughly 10 deg west of south, the right edge of ICC would be crudely 75 deg west of south, so unable to see the equatorial moons from 4.5 deg N latitude.
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post Oct 17 2019, 08:13 PM
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News release from NASA/JPL Link "Mars InSight's 'Mole' Is Moving Again"
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post Oct 18 2019, 12:22 AM
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todays (sol315) progress full res crop 5fps
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post Oct 18 2019, 06:15 AM
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it's no longer a mole, they should consider renaming it "the corkscrew"
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post Oct 18 2019, 05:40 PM
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Tilman's logbook at DLR updated:
https://www.dlr.de/blogs/en/all-blog-posts/...on-logbook.aspx

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Good news from Mars, DLR´s 'Mole' has moved forward! The HP3 heat flow probe has moved a total of two centimeters (calculated from the image data by Troy Hudson and Bob Deen, JPL/Caltech) downward in three hammering sessions with carefully chosen 20 and then two times 100 strokes.

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Eventually, the Mole must work on its own but we will support it at shallow depths by loading the ground by pushing hard on the surface with the scoop.

There has been rotation of the Mole around its axis, more so in the first two hammering sessions. We are carefully watching the rotation. From testing in the testbed on Earth we know that the probe tends to rotate as it penetrates. Once the tether is in the ground we expect it to act as a fin that will reduce the rotation as it did in the testbed.
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post Oct 18 2019, 05:50 PM
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If the mole is able to rotate on its own without contact from the scoop. Then it's simply a result of rotary components being used internally. Not too unlike ball-point pen retraction/ratchet mechanism that is able to recoil.


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post Oct 18 2019, 11:08 PM
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I'd thought the rotation was due to some complex interaction between the mole, scoop and soil constraints at gravity angle, but indeed its as if its roller-cam setup was inspired by a ball point pen clicker, it seems like it could impart CCW rotation when the roller edges over the 'cliff'. This site has many papers on the HP3 hammering mechanism.
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post Oct 20 2019, 07:09 AM
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Sol 318 advancement look promising.

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post Oct 20 2019, 12:38 PM
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The mole doesn't seem to be rotating in this hammering session. Maybe it was spinning away from an obstacle, or it is in firm contact with the soil now which has created more friction?


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post Oct 21 2019, 05:20 AM
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Does the Tether Unit have to be moved back above mole?
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post Oct 21 2019, 08:24 AM
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QUOTE (Decepticon @ Oct 21 2019, 01:20 PM) *
Does the Tether Unit have to be moved back above mole?


"The team are indeed considering replacing the support structure so the science tether will have a direct line down into the soil from the TLM, rather than having to do a dog-leg. Agreement to do that, and agreement on exactly how it would be done are being actively pursued."
(Source a member of the team)
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post Oct 22 2019, 03:26 PM
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Tom Hoffman did a presentation at the Mars Society Convention (again). Space.com has pullquoted it somewhat, but the replay isn't yet on YouTube.
https://www.space.com/mars-soil-weird-nasa-...ght-lander.html
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post Oct 22 2019, 10:07 PM
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while we wait for next steps, here are cherry-picked frames from the full sequence cropped and resampled to squeeze into a 3mb gif file 10fps
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post Oct 23 2019, 09:44 PM
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On sol 322 the scoop was moved sideways slightly, away from the mole, and then pushed down to touch the mole again at a lower position, to keep contact with the mole as it descends.

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