Viking Landers, Book and website recommendations |
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 Apr 15 2006, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 13 2006, 01:29 PM)  I should add, I took the original pans from the Photojournal, but unfortunately they don't have the full Viking 2 pans. I think I have them on an old CD somewhere, but I don't know for sure where they are now. I seem to recall MSSS had them once, but I'm not sure where at the moment. Any advice? Phil Phil, These have a special interest to me as my task as a college-age student working for 8 months with the Viking Lander Imaging Team at JPL was to construct these mosaics. Later versions of these after I had left ended up being the ones finally published. You probably have most of the online offerings covered. I do have via my home page a web page with links to the online versions that I could find. I have a number of old prints and negatives from the versions I worked on, unfortunately no digital versions. I suppose I can always scan more of what I have though. The URL discussed above is http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/viking.html that has various links to Viking Hi-res mosaics. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Apr 15 2006, 04:16 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10159 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks everybody. I forgot about the dust pile observations - thanks, ed. When I get around to it in future I will follow up on that. And Steve - thanks. It's going to be some time before I can get back to the Viking 2 pans, but I will eventually.
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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 Apr 15 2006, 04:34 PM
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Does anybody know where the encapsulated Viking landers ( together with Aeroshell and heatshield in a closed Bioshield which consisted of a base and dome-cap ) were dry heat sterilized ?
NEC Corp should have done this prior to sending the landers to KSC for mating with the orbiters ... any weblink? 
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Apr 16 2006, 09:02 AM
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The Viking 1 dust-pile images will be on whatever NASA USGS web site has the mission data, together with abstracts from LPSC meetings in the late 70's and early 80's. Peer-Reviewed papers were probably published, but I'd have to wade into the stacks and DIG.
Viking 1 was set on an entirely automated monitoring mission, taking and blindly transmitting to Earth segments from complete panoramas that would steadily build up with time, calibration test chart pics. and a very few (as I recall) repeated targets like ?some? of the dust piles. When DSN antennas capable of receiving the signal (Mars-Earth range dependent, I expect) and not busy with other missions like Voyager or Pioneer Venus, they'd get the week's Viking data dump on some sort of "least cost / best effort" basis. I'm vaguely recalling they got maybe 60% of the transmissions. |
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Jun 9 2006, 05:27 PM
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Remember when Calvin and Hobbes went to Mars and landed near Viking 1...
http://www.calvin-und-hobbes.com/chwp34l.jpg -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 16 2006, 05:03 AM
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/events...g30_agenda.html
SCHEDULE Viking 30th Anniversary Conference Mars: Past, Present and Future Thursday, June 22, 2006 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. EDT H.J.E. Reid Conference Center NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Va. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jul 6 2006, 12:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
A couple days late, but this July 4 was the thirtieth anniversary of when Viking 1
was *supposed* to land on Mars, but the mission team decided the original landing site was too rough. Of course it would have been a very nice capper to the United States celebrating the Bicentennial of our Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1976, but too much had been put into the Viking landers to risk such a thing. Besides, the historic landing might also have found itself relegated to a less important status in the public view with everything else going on that day. So they waited and ended up landing Viking 1 on another historic day, this one even more appropriate - July 20, the seventh anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon with Apollo 11. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jul 6 2006, 05:27 PM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Apr 15 2006, 12:34 PM) Does anybody know where the encapsulated Viking landers ( together with Aeroshell and heatshield in a closed Bioshield which consisted of a base and dome-cap ) were dry heat sterilized ? NEC Corp should have done this prior to sending the landers to KSC for mating with the orbiters ... any weblink? In SAEF-2 at KSC. |
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 Jul 20 2006, 09:14 AM
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1976 - 2006 = 30 years of VIKING ...
Dr Gentry LEE still emotional about it: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/mars/viking-062206/ 
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Jul 23 2006, 07:39 PM
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I have tried another attempt to clean up the Viking 1 view of the nearby relatively large crater.
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Jul 29 2006, 04:15 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Here is another one...
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Jul 29 2006, 10:05 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jul 29 2006, 04:15 PM) Here is another one... this is dramatic and beautiful. |
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Jul 29 2006, 11:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 16 2006, 05:03 AM) http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/events...g30_agenda.html Viking 30th Anniversary Conference Mars: Past, Present and Future Thursday, June 22, 2006 NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Va. This was an outstanding conference. The Viking 30th Anniversary was also celebrated at MARS DAY 2006 at NASM DC on 21 July 2006 at the Viking Lander model. http://www.nasm.si.edu/marsday/marsdaysched.html some comments here : http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=2961 ken |
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Aug 11 2006, 03:22 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Here is a super-res view of a nearby mound or crater. The color data for this area is bad, and I am still working on it.
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Aug 12 2006, 02:57 PM
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Very cool!
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