Rosetta Mars Flyby, Info and Links |
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 Feb 25 2007, 01:46 AM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
Morning anyone else crazy enough to be up at this ungodly hour...
 I'm almost as baffled why ESA isn't showing this live on EAS internet TV as I am why Doug can't get online... What do those guys use to talk to each other over there, Coke cans connected with string..?  Anyone else about, or am I sat here on my own..? -------------------- |
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Feb 25 2007, 01:49 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 24 2007, 08:06 PM)  First blog entry http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000876/ Doug, not to nit-pick, but isn't that 0.0000075 cm/sec figure awfully large? Mars is many, many orders of magnitude more massive than Rosetta than the 2191/0.000000075 figure implies. Am I missing something here? -------------------- |
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Feb 25 2007, 02:00 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Emily... any idea what the yellow toy mascot is, sat on top of the console there?
( I remember when we were all waiting for Beagle to phone home; the Beagle mascot was whipped off the consoles very shortly after the probe was meant to report in, so I emailed them asking them to please put it back as Beagle wasn't dead yet... it reappeared shortly after... a coincidence I'm sure...  )
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Feb 25 2007, 02:13 AM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
No idea! I'll try and remember to ask Doug to find out.
I'm feeding a baby...cooking dinner...watching the webcam...waiting for Doug's call...drinking a beer...this is true multitasking! --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 25 2007, 02:20 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Very impressed by your multi-tasking Emily!
I'm sat here at 02.20 (an hour behind Doug), looking like a James Bond villain as I try to simultaneously stroke a white cat sat on my knee whilst tapping away on my PC, alternating between looking at your Blog, this UMSF page and the ESOC webcam and working on the Powerpoint presentation for my next school talk at the same time...
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Feb 25 2007, 02:26 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Emily reports that Doug reports LOS from Rosetta dead on time...trajectory appears nominal.
-------------------- 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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Feb 25 2007, 02:50 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Emily is reporting on her Blog that Doug has phoned to confirm Rosetta's signal has returned as scheduled, so all appears well. The Great probe-eating Ghoul of Mars let another one go!
 Also, the mascot's name is Orville and he's a duck. Ain't it wonderful that we spend gazillions of dollars, Euros and pieces of gold-pressed latinum on these spaceprobes, hurl them into the depths of space, calculate their trajectories and positions to the nth decimal place with supercomputers, convinced that the laws of physics will triumph... and then put a soft toy of a duck on top of a monitor for luck... Human beings, gotta love 'em! Right, back to bed for me, I'm at work tomorrow... look forward to sharing the pictures with all of you later... -------------------- |
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Feb 25 2007, 03:41 AM
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What time is it.
What day is it. Osiris observation from about 100,000km out in just Red and Green filters fudged to make a colour image - presented by Horst Uwe Keller, PI for OSIRIS. Since 0730 on Friday - I've had 4 hours sleep. Going to do a brief "that was fun" blog entry - with a more verbose entry at about 1300 tomorrow. This post was brought to you by Red Bull. Other caffine drinks are available. Other pictures are available here http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_ellison_tps/ Doug
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Feb 25 2007, 04:07 AM
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Stu is reporting that Emily is reporting Doug's report that all is well. Give that man a bottle of Lipovitan-D!
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 25 2007, 04:27 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Argh...poor Doug!
 Intrepid reporting in difficult circumstances, my friend; major kudos and sincere thanks to you & Emily from us all!!!
-------------------- 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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Feb 25 2007, 05:05 AM
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Feb 25 2007, 06:14 AM
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Oh now that is something! What anb unusual viewing geometery!
I love the cload layers on the limb, and that polar hood! P |
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Feb 25 2007, 06:16 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Well, the duck mascot I can understand, but why is there a book on "power poker" on the monitor beside it?
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 25 2007, 07:42 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
With HiRise providing great views of the leaves, it's the shots like these that remind us of the forest the leaves are in. And it's a beautiful forest.
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Feb 25 2007, 07:48 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Nice to know that OSIRIS Narrow-Angle Camera is equipped with a 2kx2k sensor!
Correct me if I'm wrong, this is the widest bi-dimensional sensor ever flight in a spaceprobe... Addendum: at this site you'll find some nice pictures aquired in 2004/2005 (I do not know is someone published them). -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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