MOM At Mars, Mission Operations |
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MOM At Mars, Mission Operations |
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
Successful insertion!!!!! Congratulations to ISRO!!!!
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
Apparently only available as a Facebook link right now, but this is the first image (and it's nice.)
-------------------- 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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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
And you call that "guessing"...
![]() ![]() Seems to have a bit of motion blur is all, but that may be a subjective impression on my part. -------------------- 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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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 547 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 ![]() |
A great first photo ... and in colour! The spacecraft and instruments are still in commissioning phase, so hopefully image resolution will improve later.
Initial orbit is 421.7 km by 76,994 km, at an inclination to Mars’ equatorial plane of 150 degrees. Orbital period is 72 hours 52 minutes. The periapsis was predicted to be 515km after the last course correction, so it came in a little low. The BBC and CNN have been reporting along the following lines: “ (CNN) -- India's Mars Orbiter Mission successfully entered Mars' orbit Wednesday morning, becoming the first nation to arrive on its first attempt and the first Asian country to reach the Red Planet. “ In fact, Mars Express made ESA the first nation/ region to succeed at its first attempt. Both Japan (Nozomi) and China (Yinghuo 1) have attempted Mars probes which failed. So this is a major first for India, in Asia’s “mini space race”. |
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
MOD MODE: Reminder to all members that rule 1.2 will be enforced, and posts that violate that rule will be deleted without warning.
Mod hat off. Let's please celebrate achievements here on their own merits instead of making essentially futile comparisons of the "first", "better", etc. variety, which never seem to accomplish anything but raising tensions. MOM is a remarkable achievement thus far, and it seems as if we'll have a considerable amount of not only new imagery but also new science data to talk about in short order. Good stuff. ![]() -------------------- 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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![]() Administrator ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 ![]() |
A second photo. This one is actually at the camera's full resolution of 2048 pixels square! Can anybody identify the location?
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It shows boundary between Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra (it's mostly Terra Sabaea). The biggest visible crater is Tikhonravov.
EDIT: I uploaded improved graphics, older version was deleted. -------------------- |
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Solar System Cartographer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 ![]() |
Good for you! You're right. I was looking but hadn't found it yet. And it's in the northern hemisphere (sorry Julius!)
Appropriately, the small feature Indus Vallis is in this area, as the map shows. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Solar System Cartographer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 ![]() |
-------------------- ... 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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![]() Junior Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 64 Joined: 17-December 12 From: Portugal Member No.: 6792 ![]() |
Phil, that last image looks like something from Mariner 4!
Nice to see the images being released fast. Also good color balance / correction for first images. I think the camera is a bit out of focus, but that's expected for such an early mission phase. -------------------- www.astrosurf.com/nunes
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Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: 9-August 11 From: Mason, TX Member No.: 6108 ![]() |
I think the camera is a bit out of focus, but that's expected for such an early mission phase. I worked with the hi-def image a bit. The saturation is probably higher than true color. The color histogram clearly shows the peaks of primary red, green, and blue contributions; playing with these channels brought out different limb features, although there I could not be certain I was seeing true layers or the contribution of the very heavy compression blocks. My impression is that this image is probably a better representation of the mission's atmospheric research goals than of the general photographic capability of the camera--playing with levels pretty much kills the limb structure. Data with more gray scale and less compression will tell a better story of the geologic capabilities of the camera. -------------------- --
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