MSL - Astronomical Observations, Phobos/Deimos, planetary/celestial observations and more |
MSL - Astronomical Observations, Phobos/Deimos, planetary/celestial observations and more |
Jul 10 2015, 05:27 PM
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Martian Photographer Group: Members Posts: 353 Joined: 3-March 05 Member No.: 183 |
Just to briefly distract you all from Pluto ... for once, and for a limited time, Solar images haven't been only for watching weather on Mars. MSL has been sunspot watching, and a couple of the active regions have become coronal mass ejections before the active areas came around to the side of the Sun Earth can see.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew...amp;NewsID=1842 (STEREO-A is coming back online from conjunction mode, with the imager recovery set to begin tomorrow.) |
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Jul 10 2015, 08:42 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Cool. This is a bonus application that never occurred to me; what a smart use of resources!
-------------------- 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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Jun 23 2018, 10:36 AM
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I animated the relevant Mastcam color images from the PDS, resulting in three GIF views of the Martian sunset observed by Curiosity rover on Sol 956:
http://i.imgur.com/KkKVn3T.gifv http://i.imgur.com/PzHJm6b.gifv http://i.imgur.com/7yZkPni.gifv Please feel free to share:) |
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Mar 19 2019, 06:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 20-August 12 From: Spain Member No.: 6597 |
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Mar 19 2019, 07:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Pretty sure that's Deimos (way too small). Very nice though!
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Mar 19 2019, 08:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 20-August 12 From: Spain Member No.: 6597 |
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Nov 25 2019, 07:41 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 9-August 19 Member No.: 8644 |
A variant of the Sol 956 Mars sunset from the PDS:
https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/search/?q=...280030403633C00 Gif source images: 0956ML0042280030403633C00, 0956ML0042280030403634C00, 0956ML0042280030403635C00, 0956ML0042280030403636C00 |
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Nov 26 2019, 05:06 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 9-August 19 Member No.: 8644 |
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Nov 28 2019, 07:45 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 9-August 19 Member No.: 8644 |
Back to the Sol 956 sunset for a moment. Something I've been working on for a bit of fun... a near real-time sunset sequence based on those images. Enjoy the animation Youtube link. [attachment=35871:0007.jpg] NB: Sky and Sun are synthetic. Don't consider this accurate in any way. Had some fun with your animation given the forthcoming movie, feel free to share:) Marstooine: If Mars Had Binary Sunsets
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Dec 23 2019, 10:22 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 9-August 19 Member No.: 8644 |
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Earth as a moving point of light in Mar's night sky about 80 minutes after sunset on the 529th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (31st January 2014). The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took the photo was about 160 million kilometers (99 million miles).
Source: https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/msl/mslBrowser/an3...0303364E01_DRCX Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU |
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Jun 16 2020, 02:37 PM
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Martian Photographer Group: Members Posts: 353 Joined: 3-March 05 Member No.: 183 |
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Apr 11 2021, 08:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Sol 3071 : the Curiosity rover saw Mars' biggest satellite, Phobos, in the Martian night sky.
The size of Phobos from Mars is about 1/3rd that of the Moon as seen from Earth. Here is the image taken in natural color and well processed. The big crater Stickney is seen at the bottom of the disk, and the south polar crater Hall is at right close to the terminator. Enjoy |
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Aug 23 2021, 11:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
On Sol 3215, Deimos, Mars' smallest satellite, was imaged by the MAHLI camera:
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/0...210C00_DXXX.jpg Also enlarged and processed. Enjoy |
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Aug 23 2021, 09:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 819 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79 |
On Sol 3215, Deimos, Mars' smallest satellite, was imaged by the MAHLI camera: That's not Deimos but Phobos, Olivier. See this post by Abigail Fraeman, Curiosity rover Deputy Scientist. -------------------- |
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Aug 23 2021, 09:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
That's not Deimos but Phobos, Olivier. See this post by Abigail Fraeman, Curiosity rover Deputy Scientist. Thank you very much Neo56 for pointing this info This moon looked so little with a surface very smooth |
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