ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
ExoMars - Schiaparelli landing |
Aug 12 2016, 07:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10159 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Starting a new topic here - hopefully that's OK! Clearly there will be a lot of action around this in the next weeks and months with descent images and HiRISE views of the hardware.
I thought I had posted this map earlier but apparently not. This shows the various landing ellipses in this area. The original plan was for an ellipse oriented NW-SE, but it changed with the different launch date and is now nearly E-W. Note that the ellipse shown in the recent ESA release is the envelope of all ellipses over a given launch period, but the actual landing ellipse for the given launch date is smaller. Opportunity's final landing ellipse is shown for comparison. http://exploration.esa.int/mars/57445-exom...6-landing-site/ http://exploration.esa.int/mars/57446-exom...6-landing-site/ 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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Oct 20 2016, 01:48 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Had to work all day so just catching up.
Let's please remember that members of the Schiaparelli team may well be reading our posts, if they have the time to do so given the enormous amount of frantic work that must be underway trying to understand--and hopefully recover from--this anomaly. Mars is hard. There's no denying that. There's no such thing as a 'routine' landing there, not for anyone. But the only way to truly fail is to never have tried at all. Best wishes to them, and best of luck. -------------------- 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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Oct 20 2016, 02:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
I've seen a spacecraft re-enter (Stardust) from downrange, albeit at night. I'm not sure what the martian daytime version would look like, but the terrestrial nighttime version was pretty cool.
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