InSight EDL, 26 Nov 2018 |
InSight EDL, 26 Nov 2018 |
Nov 27 2018, 03:18 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Forum note: All RIGHT!!!!! We have now all exhaled, so it's time to segue into the surface operations phase. Please start migrating the discussion to this new thread; the EDL thread will close sometime in the near future.
What a great day it's been. -------------------- 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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Nov 27 2018, 03:48 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 4-July 08 Member No.: 4251 |
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Nov 27 2018, 05:07 AM
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#108
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Bruce Banerdt told me today the following:
- very close to center of the ellipse - lander tilt about 1.7 degrees to N-eastish, basically level - almost perfect clocking to desired E-W -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Nov 27 2018, 05:11 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Couldn't ask for anything more.
Question that they may or not may not know the answer to: The latest image shows some rough terrain fairly close at hand, though hard to judge distance; were they confident enough in the targeting accuracy that they were sure that they'd miss that area? -------------------- 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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Nov 27 2018, 05:14 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
were they confident enough in the targeting accuracy that they were sure that they'd miss that area? That's probably only a few tens of meters away - if that. The landing ellipse was 10's of km across. In short - the spacecraft was basically just as likely to land where it did, as on top of that large rock in the middle distance. |
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Nov 27 2018, 05:17 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Was wondering precisely that. Glad to see that the luck of the Vikings was with InSight....
-------------------- 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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Nov 27 2018, 05:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1064 Joined: 17-February 09 Member No.: 4605 |
The larger rocks seem few and far between so there would be a finite but very low probability of landing on one. Would not smaller
rocks, potentially able to tilt the lander if a leg pad encountered one be moved by the lander exhaust? The landing image does seem to show a scoured field close in. |
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Nov 27 2018, 05:42 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
There is always a % risk of a bad landing.
I wonder what the worst case scenario was for instrument deploy ? 45 degrees/ 60 degrees ? |
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Nov 27 2018, 05:55 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 8-August 12 Member No.: 6507 |
Just got back for a great dinner with family after EDL. This landing was great and the flight data almost looks like our sim data from the many EDL sims we did. Also a great match to Phoenix performance, so I hope we can do more of these than once every 10 years. Still very excited from my 2nd landing on Mars (now 2 for 3)! Was on InSight from the proposal phase, so 7 years of hard work came to fruition in in 7 minutes. Arrays deployed and we have positive power so short term we are very safe (never guess longer than short term).
The Marcos were great (if any Marco team members watch this forum thanks so much for the data)! We got Marco UHF carrier lock before we even separated from the cruise stage and telemetry well before entry interface. Never dropped data during EDL (even at backshell sep which expected). No ideas but I bet this technology will be on future lander programs. On PHX I focused on the prop system telemetry only (pressures and thruster on times). This time I watched the system performance (GNC rates, altitude and velocity), and I am glad that I did. I does look from the data we did a BAM to avoid the backshell (we had low horizontal rates), but need to review in more detail to be sure. Prop system worked great and thanks to all the suppliers who built the pieces for us. No way to compare the rush this event gave me (I have done lots of things in deep space including orbit insertions at Jupiter and Saturn) but nothing compares to seeing data like this during EDL! Much better than MPL (RIP, but without that failure we may not have had two successive successes). I am not involved in landed ops (no need for prop in that phase) but still hope all science goes great and just like PHX and Juno provides data that invalidates many previous theories (that is in my opinion the best reason to do these missions)! Getting tired so it is good night for me. |
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Nov 27 2018, 06:02 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Great job, propguy; sure made it look easy to us amateurs!!! Get some rest & crack a cold one or six; you damn well earned it.
Thanks for all the InSight <rimshot!> you contributed here; it was fascinating and very, VERY much appreciated! -------------------- 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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Nov 27 2018, 07:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 20-August 12 From: Spain Member No.: 6597 |
I just want to say congratulations to all the InSight team.
Yesterday Mars and InSight were trending since 18:00 UTC in social networks in Spain until late at night. And that is great. |
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Nov 27 2018, 08:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 15-August 07 From: Shrewsbury, Shropshire Member No.: 3233 |
A photo taken by the camera on the instrument arm has now appeared on the insight raw images page. The cover is still on this camera. However due to the lack of dust up there, the image is clear.
https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/13?site=insight The rocks in this image look larger than those on the press conference image. |
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Nov 28 2018, 04:32 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
A rather neat public art reaction to the successful EDL. This is The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, at the intersection of 5th & Spring Streets. You will notice a small "space invader" tile model at about the 10 o'clock position from the large red lit balloon.
The invader appeared back in May. The balloon appeared several days ago but remained dark. The balloon was lit today. -------------------- 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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Aug 23 2019, 04:03 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Sorry to briefly reopen a closed thread, but NASA just released a rather cool bit of EPO regarding a side effect of InSight's EDL. Check out the video, turn it up, and enjoy!
-------------------- 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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Aug 23 2019, 05:18 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I will take advantage of the opened thread to add this: the cruise stage which brought InSight to Mars was separated before entry. It would have entered the atmosphere and some fragments probably hit the ground. The Curiosity cruise stage impact site was imaged by HiRISE, so InSight's probably could be as well. It would probably show up first in CTX images. Here's hoping!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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