InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022 |
InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022 |
Dec 3 2018, 06:44 AM
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Dec 3 2018, 07:27 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 21-January 10 Member No.: 5183 |
Is it my imagination, or does it look like there is actually more dust on the lens after the cover was removed? It does appear to be the case. I wonder if there's a static charge or such occurring? For a camera with a (removed) lens cover, there's quite a bit of dust! Here a quick animation showing the two frames so far - Sol4, 12:53:51 PM vs 13:27:07 PM |
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Dec 3 2018, 09:09 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 15-January 08 Member No.: 4014 |
I decided not to wait any longer for Mars' dust devils mercy and personally cleaned up the lens a bit
Also below some "upright" perspective -------------------- iss.astronet.pl
moonshot.astronet.pl |
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Dec 3 2018, 09:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
Great work!
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Dec 3 2018, 12:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
If static charge is a problem attracting particles, maybe future lens designs for landing missions would include an electrically conductive lens coating (atomically thin metal and organics are transparent)? Or is the entire craft charged with very slow discharge through feet?
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Dec 3 2018, 01:27 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Very nicely done, Station!
Re static charge, it's of course too early to tell if this is happening or not. Never seemed to be a problem for cams on other landed spacecraft, though they also didn't land dead square in dustbowls. If that is what's going on here then I'd expect it the charge to gradually dissipate over time since the lander is in contact with the surface and all of InSight's components are electrically bonded with each other to form a reference ground plane, like any other aerospace vehicle. -------------------- 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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Dec 3 2018, 05:13 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I asked Justin Maki what is happening to the images on their way to the website. He said:
QUOTE The images are transmitted from Mars as color JPEGs. The images on the website are decompressed versions with the light stretch to make it easy for people to view. We are still fine-tuning the processing of the raw images but it is just a simple histogram percent contrast stretch. Once the camera covers are opened we may tweak the stretch parameters, depending on how things look.
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Dec 3 2018, 06:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Re static charge, it's of course too early to tell if this is happening or not. Never seemed to be a problem for cams on other landed spacecraft, though they also didn't land dead square in dustbowls. Another interesting bit of context is the recent end of the massive dust storm. Maybe dust accumulates charge during such events and tends to lose it over subsequent months and years. There is research supporting the occurrence of lightning in martian dust storms. There was, I think, at least one martian year in every other cases between a major dust storm and the other seven successful landings (2001 until the MERs landed being just over a martian year). In fact, the possibility of an electrical discharge killing the Soviet Mars 3 lander has previously been raised, and the Mars 2 lander failed for yet-unknown reasons. Those entries happened before the 1971 dust storm had ended. Those clumps of dust may just be a clue as to what happened to the Soviet missions in 1971. |
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Dec 3 2018, 07:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 24-July 15 Member No.: 7619 |
Maybe dust accumulates charge during such events and tends to lose it over subsequent months and years. There was a Sky and Telescope article about dust storms and static charge- Dust Storm Electricity Might Forge Perchlorates on Mars - https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-n...orates-on-mars/ Which is based on a research paper- Forming perchlorates on Mars through plasma chemistry during dust events - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic...gcid=rss_sd_all Curiously, perchlorate enhances dry conductivity and is used as a food additive to help dissipate static charge buildup on plastic and cardboard food containers (i.e. your Cheerios don't stick to the plastic bag) |
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Dec 3 2018, 08:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 8-May 14 Member No.: 7185 |
It is a bit ironic that Humanity put a lander on Mars but didn't manage to give it a dust cover that keeps dust out... Anyway, this mission is not about the views. The images are perfectly serviceable for putting the seismometer and mole on the ground.
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Dec 3 2018, 08:54 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
It is a bit ironic that Humanity put a lander on Mars but didn't manage to give it a dust cover that keeps dust out... It has been explained in this thread how the camera and lens cap was designed and why. If you have good ideas, I suggest click on this link: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/opportunities/ Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Dec 3 2018, 09:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
The apparent descent thruster scour marks seem to have exhumed a lot of soil around the rock, which itself appears to be almost perfectly placed that it could focus a blowback of dust back up in the direction of the ICC.
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Dec 3 2018, 09:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Good point about the rock!
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Dec 3 2018, 10:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 547 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Emily quotes Justin Maki above as saying : Once the camera covers are opened ...
So maybe the dust specks are on the cover only, not on the lens? |
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Dec 3 2018, 10:41 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The ICC cover has been opened. The current dust is on the lens.
It will probably dissipate with time. It has already begun to in just the single sol since it was deployed. |
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