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Oct 1 2019, 10:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
Thanks, i always enjoy these. I rotated each 180 to reduce headache. If you dont already use StereoPhotoMaker youll find it very useful
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Oct 4 2019, 03:10 PM
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#77
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Member Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 12-September 19 Member No.: 8664 |
Few images from OHRC at last but not of impact site unfortunately.
https://www.isro.gov.in/update/04-oct-2019/...solution-camera |
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Oct 6 2019, 05:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2511 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Few images from OHRC at last but not of impact site unfortunately. It would be an interesting exercise to find LROC coverage of this area and do a quality comparison. I tried looking but but wasn't able to find overlapping images in the few minutes I had to spend. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Oct 7 2019, 06:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 12-September 19 Member No.: 8664 |
It would be an interesting exercise to find LROC coverage of this area and do a quality comparison. I tried looking but but wasn't able to find overlapping images in the few minutes I had to spend. My guess is this is our broad area of interest but I am yet to find exact spots for good one to one comparison. https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/moon/indexproduct...d=M1251626568RC https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/moon/indexproduct...d=M1282199397RC https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/moon/indexproduct...d=M1282199397LC Quickmap link to relevant area. First attached image is of OHRC overview rotated 40° to match LROC mosaic. |
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Oct 22 2019, 07:09 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks for finding the images.
Here is some news about the SAR on Chandrayaan 2: https://www.isro.gov.in/update/22-oct-2019/...thetic-aperture 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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Oct 23 2019, 10:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Latest on the LRO search for Vikram is that the new imaging this month also failed to spot the lander.
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/cha...2124-2019-10-23 Shadows are invoked again, but my feeling is that the lander crashed further from the target than expected and is not in the imaged area, which appears to be looking at the landing target. I have not yet seen a detailed analysis of the expected impact location, but if Vikram was tumbling and thrusting after loss of contact, as seems to be suggested in some reports, it could be off top the side of the groundtrack a bit more than expected. 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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Oct 25 2019, 03:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 12-September 19 Member No.: 8664 |
It appears there is no coordination on search for impact location.
https://www.space.com/india-moon-lander-not...nd-by-nasa.html May be they are being coy on location information to get some science done first and fast. http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/201...ro-2035311.html |
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Oct 25 2019, 03:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
As it is very hard to find the lander Vikram after one month, I am supposing that Vikram didn't impact so hard and its impact footprint will not show any burned pieces due to the combustion which facilities the probability to spot it due to the change of the color of the surface. The other possibility is that the lander is laid on the side and reduce its shadow.
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Nov 11 2019, 07:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
Top: An aerial view of the lighting conditions for when LRO passed over the 'Vikram' site today, 11 Nov, 2019 at 1:21:04 UTC (note, these are approximate calculations, so apologies, if incorrect).
Bottom: An 24-hour (11/11/2019 to 11/12/2019) graphic view of LRO's increasing altitude (note, sometimes American versus European date descriptions are published differently, however, in this case, the format is Month/Day/Year). LRO's orbital track is moving westwards, the site is becoming evermore brighter (terminator movement), as the Sun steadily climbs overhead. John Moore |
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Nov 13 2019, 11:52 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 12-September 19 Member No.: 8664 |
Updates related to CHACE-2 and TMC-2 on orbiter
https://www.isro.gov.in/update/31-oct-2019/...lunar-exosphere https://www.isro.gov.in/update/13-nov-2019/...initial-results Apparently they are working out another attempt at landing before November 2020 with a lander/rover configuration and a detachable propulsion module. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/c...ow/72047390.cms |
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Dec 2 2019, 08:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 12-September 19 Member No.: 8664 |
They found it!
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/1131 Here it is on Quickmap Edit: The person credited in press release for helpful inputs is https://twitter.com/Ramanean |
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Dec 4 2019, 03:33 AM
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Dec 4 2019, 11:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
I feel like I ought to say: In a time when scientific research and the value of scientific thinking are under attack ISRO have behaved very irresponsibly with how they've shared information, giving the impression that they've put the truth as a lower priority than saving face. I'll not comment on the matter again here, and it is definitely my opinion only.
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Dec 4 2019, 04:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 185 Joined: 4-January 19 Member No.: 8523 |
Recently we had 4 attempts, CNSA chang e'3 on 14/dec/13 succesfull, CNSA chang e'4 on 3/jan/19, SpaceIL beresheet on 11/apr/19, Chandrayaan on 06/set/2019. The last two atempts were unsuccesfull on the same stage, at the landing aproach, they are extremelly important to the learn process and improvement of the next ones. But its information need to be shared, otherwise it will have much less relevance. Nasa LROC images will contribute a lot to fill this gap. -------------------- "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena"
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Dec 12 2019, 02:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
WRT the crash, the LROC images show some debris scattered back along the ground track at quite a distance. Given the (very likely) angle and velocity of the impact this doesn't seem very strange to me - my layman's knowledge and reading is that hypervelocity impacts will produce a more or less even debris field around the impact unless the angle of impact is very, very low. But on other forums this seems to be a topic under discussion - how anything could be scattered the opposite way to the direction of the ground track. Given the concentration of expertise here I was wondering if anyone here found it unusual?
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