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 Jan 20 2005, 02:09 AM
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I'm looking forward to seeing the other Landers Russian/US
Mars 3 and the Polar Lander are the to main ones I want to see. |
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Mar 11 2005, 04:01 AM
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QUOTE (Decepticon @ Jan 20 2005, 02:09 AM) I'm looking forward to seeing the other Landers Russian/US Mars 3 and the Polar Lander are the to main ones I want to see. That would be great, but... I seem to recall Mike Collins on Apollo 11 looking and looking for Eagle on the surface, and without a precise location the field of view in his sextant was just too narrow to find it. I know what MRO's resolution is -- but what is the area of an MRO imaging "swath"? How many swaths will have to be imaged to find something that we don't have an exact location for? The guys at JPL thought they had a good location on Viking 1, but MGS (which can effectively image the smaller MERs) hasn't been able to find it. They have less of a good location fix on Viking 2 and Pathfinder/Sojourner, and also their heroic efforts to find MPL failed. It's going to be hard to find those guys, much less Mars 3, for which I don't know if *anyone* has a decent idea of location. Of course, we could always get lucky and find one or more of them by chance... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Mar 11 2005, 04:29 AM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Moderator Posts: 4043 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Actually, we already have good locations for Viking 1 and MPF from MOC, which has photographed them on the surface.
http://barsoom.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/01/04/ In addition to Viking 2 and Mars 3, I would like to see Mars 6. Mars 6 returned the first scientific data from the Martian atmosphere during descent in 1975, although it crashed. An engineering instrument eroneously identified argon in the atmosphere, leading many believe erroneously that the Martian atmosphere was largely composed of argon. -------------------- |
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Mar 11 2005, 07:47 AM
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MRO's swath width is ENORMOUS!
 6km width - which is 4x that of MGS  Doug |
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