Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
 Dec 28 2010, 01:46 PM
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I thought it was time to start a new thread on Stardust's flyby of Tempel 1, the first time a comet receives a second visit from a spacecraft one perihelion later.
There was an interesting story about this on Spaceflight now recently http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/23stardustnext/ note that the flyby will be around 23.30 eastern time on 14 February, so thinking in GMT it will not happen on Valentine's day. Stardust should have started imaging Tempel 1 twice weekly in mid-December, but there is nothing yet on the mission site http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html see also http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/m...tatus10_q4.html for updates on the mission status |
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Paolo Stardust-NExT Dec 28 2010, 01:46 PM
Ian R My version:
Feb 15 2011, 10:38 AM Sunspot hmmm website stopped updating with images. Feb 15 2011, 11:36 AM
MahFL They are proberbly asleep, or keeping them back fo... Feb 15 2011, 12:17 PM PaulM The broad end of the nucleus seems to be facing St... Feb 15 2011, 01:01 PM dilo I tried to make crossed-eye stereogram with second... Feb 15 2011, 01:51 PM Hungry4info http://www.cosmicdiary.org/blogs/nasa/franck_march... Feb 15 2011, 02:17 PM ugordan Do we know if the rotational phase seen by Stardus... Feb 15 2011, 02:24 PM Phil Stooke My impression based on your animation is that the ... Feb 15 2011, 02:42 PM ugordan I rotated it slightly over 70 degrees clockwise. C... Feb 15 2011, 02:46 PM Phil Stooke No, I mean the comparison as you presented it just... Feb 15 2011, 03:15 PM Hungry4info Multiple new images, much closer to the comet.
ht... Feb 15 2011, 04:38 PM djellison They're beautiful - utterly beautiful - I wasn... Feb 15 2011, 04:41 PM paxdan crater identification in 3, 2, 1.... Feb 15 2011, 04:43 PM Stu Just catching up with this 'cos I've been ... Feb 15 2011, 04:43 PM Hungry4info QUOTE ("paxdan")crater identification in... Feb 15 2011, 04:44 PM tedstryk QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 15 2011, 05:44 P... Feb 15 2011, 04:48 PM ZLD Wow! I had honestly been expecting images much... Feb 15 2011, 04:46 PM Hungry4info I'm impressed at the image quality too.
A coup... Feb 15 2011, 04:47 PM Hungry4info You're right, I got my orientation of the surf... Feb 15 2011, 04:51 PM Phil Stooke A bit of processing... some new territory - now if... Feb 15 2011, 04:56 PM ugordan I'm also very pleasantly surprised by the imag... Feb 15 2011, 04:58 PM Phil Stooke Yahoo!
Phil
Feb 15 2011, 04:59 PM toddbronco2 I think the identification of the DI crater from H... Feb 15 2011, 05:02 PM Hungry4info My identification was incorrect. The crater will b... Feb 15 2011, 05:07 PM Phil Stooke According to the NASA site (as of right now), that... Feb 15 2011, 05:08 PM KrisK Not sure 100% but can it be that one:
Feb 15 2011, 05:11 PM toddbronco2 Rotated the Deep Impact image to be close to the S... Feb 15 2011, 05:12 PM Bjorn Jonsson WOW!! These images are far, far better tha... Feb 15 2011, 05:12 PM john_s Stardust on the left, Deep Impact on the right, wi... Feb 15 2011, 05:19 PM volcanopele QUOTE (john_s @ Feb 15 2011, 10:19 AM) St... Feb 15 2011, 06:09 PM Phil Stooke Bright spot spoiler? - it was there before...
Ph... Feb 15 2011, 05:16 PM Hungry4info I think I can see KrisK's and Bjorn's impa... Feb 15 2011, 05:19 PM Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 15 2011, 05:19 P... Feb 15 2011, 05:28 PM Phil Stooke I've done a 'blink comparator' overlay... Feb 15 2011, 05:21 PM ugordan QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 15 2011, 06:21 P... Feb 15 2011, 05:39 PM Hungry4info With a porous surface, and a dense impactor, I wou... Feb 15 2011, 05:22 PM toddbronco2 So the original impact plume from Deep Impact was ... Feb 15 2011, 05:22 PM Phil Stooke The instant science is just a-poppin' here... Feb 15 2011, 05:22 PM Hungry4info Phil mentions he's seen things have dissapeare... Feb 15 2011, 05:30 PM Sunspot QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 15 2011, 05:30 P... Feb 15 2011, 05:36 PM djellison QUOTE (Sunspot @ Feb 15 2011, 09:36 AM) B... Feb 15 2011, 05:55 PM toddbronco2 Regardless of how visible the DI crater is, I... Feb 15 2011, 05:37 PM S_Walker Fascinating images- much better than expected. Her... Feb 15 2011, 05:44 PM stevesliva QUOTE (S_Walker @ Feb 15 2011, 12:44 PM) ... Feb 15 2011, 06:27 PM S_Walker QUOTE (stevesliva @ Feb 15 2011, 01:27 PM... Feb 15 2011, 06:42 PM Byran QUOTE (fredk @ Feb 16 2011, 12:14 AM) I... Feb 15 2011, 07:00 PM dilo This is my (very tentative) guess:
On the left/ce... Feb 15 2011, 07:03 PM fredk I'm wondering about the phase angle too. I wa... Feb 15 2011, 05:44 PM Hungry4info More pics.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/stardust... Feb 15 2011, 05:50 PM tedstryk QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 15 2011, 05:50 P... Feb 15 2011, 05:56 PM CAP-Team Great images! I expected the crater to be much... Feb 15 2011, 06:12 PM ugordan What pathetic humans we are, we can't even mak... Feb 15 2011, 06:20 PM PaulM The "EPOXI mission" scientists seem to b... Feb 15 2011, 06:24 PM MahFL QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 15 2011, 07:20 PM) W... Feb 16 2011, 11:15 AM jasedm Absolutely amazing pictures - I was expecting less... Feb 15 2011, 06:17 PM Paolo kudos to the science team! not only for the su... Feb 15 2011, 06:30 PM S_Walker the "closest approach" image (n30037te01... Feb 15 2011, 06:44 PM Littlebit Supercomet!
'shudda made the probe out of... Feb 15 2011, 06:46 PM Phil Stooke Three views of the nucleus, oriented with south ro... Feb 15 2011, 07:08 PM jasedm The joy of science - valuable results whether you ... Feb 15 2011, 07:12 PM Byran Tried to find the crater on three shots. Feb 15 2011, 07:22 PM jgoldader It's the lack of even an obvious albedo featur... Feb 15 2011, 07:35 PM tasp We probably would not be able to recognize a new c... Feb 15 2011, 07:44 PM Explorer1 Amazing stuff, it's funny how the camera got b... Feb 15 2011, 07:46 PM machi Byron:
We have same idea!
Quick and dirty att... Feb 15 2011, 07:55 PM Byran QUOTE (machi @ Feb 16 2011, 01:25 AM) Byr... Feb 15 2011, 08:26 PM elakdawalla We've all been so busy hunting for the crater,... Feb 15 2011, 08:00 PM Paolo QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 15 2011, 09:00 P... Feb 15 2011, 08:25 PM Explorer1 Briefing at 12:45 now, apparently. Feb 15 2011, 08:30 PM jasedm I wonder if these results will change informed opi... Feb 15 2011, 08:49 PM elakdawalla So remember how there were supposed to be 5 images... Feb 15 2011, 08:54 PM Explorer1 Starting now! Feb 15 2011, 08:56 PM machi QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 15 2011, 09:54 P... Feb 15 2011, 09:10 PM Explorer1 150 meter crater, with mound! Feb 15 2011, 09:11 PM Rick Sternbach QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Feb 15 2011, 02:11 PM)... Feb 15 2011, 10:00 PM machi Crosseye view. Colorised to approx. Deep Impact co... Feb 15 2011, 10:04 PM ugordan QUOTE (machi @ Feb 15 2011, 11:04 PM) Cro... Feb 15 2011, 10:26 PM stevesliva QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 15 2011, 05:26 PM) N... Feb 15 2011, 10:36 PM ngunn Before and after comparison from the NASA website:... Feb 15 2011, 10:17 PM Explorer1 That's what I figured it was too, Rick. Far mo... Feb 15 2011, 10:17 PM Rick Sternbach I just saw the image of the crater they showed at ... Feb 15 2011, 10:29 PM machi Another crosseye view, now only crater area and fr... Feb 15 2011, 10:43 PM Hungry4info What's interesting to me is that the crater le... Feb 15 2011, 11:13 PM fredk I'm still somewhat sceptical about the officia... Feb 16 2011, 01:36 AM machi Surface changes around impact site. Feb 16 2011, 02:50 AM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (machi @ Feb 15 2011, 09:50 PM) Sur... Feb 16 2011, 01:50 PM eoincampbell Thanks to all wizards at Stardust Team, JPL and UM... Feb 16 2011, 03:42 AM stevesliva Penultimate status update:
QUOTE Monday Feb 15, E+... Feb 16 2011, 06:04 AM CosmicRocker QUOTE (fredk @ Feb 15 2011, 07:36 PM) ...... Feb 16 2011, 08:21 AM Ian R Here's my hastily assembled movie of the encou... Feb 16 2011, 09:02 AM brellis dang, looked like we were going to hit the thing... Feb 16 2011, 09:26 AM Ian R You're welcome! Only problem is, the movie... Feb 16 2011, 09:47 AM machi I think, that almost all subtle differences are ca... Feb 16 2011, 02:16 PM fredk Thanks a lot for that, Machi - that's exactly ... Feb 16 2011, 03:19 PM machi ImageJ + bUnwarpJ plugin. Feb 16 2011, 03:33 PM Phil Stooke Aha! I've been looking for a new rubber-s... Feb 16 2011, 04:20 PM elakdawalla Are these jets? Feb 16 2011, 05:32 PM Phil Stooke Yes - good observation! They look good when e... Feb 16 2011, 06:26 PM Ian R My attempt at stacking images to make the crater (... Feb 16 2011, 07:46 PM ZLD QUOTE Are these jets?
Good find!
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