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
ngunn Hey Doug - good to see factual contributions on ma... Jan 27 2011, 11:01 PM djellison Probably my busiest day on lab yet I find myself... Jan 28 2011, 02:12 AM stevesliva http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/m...tatus... Feb 3 2011, 12:31 AM Explorer1 They said they were running low even before the ma... Feb 3 2011, 01:46 AM djellison The estimates of how much they had / needed includ... Feb 3 2011, 02:31 AM Explorer1 I realize that. I should've made that more cle... Feb 3 2011, 03:12 AM stevesliva QUOTE February 3, 2011
The spacecraft is healthy a... Feb 4 2011, 11:48 PM Gsnorgathon NASA Hosting Events for Valentine's Night Come... Feb 10 2011, 12:04 AM Hungry4info The comet's rotation isn't known well enou... Feb 10 2011, 12:11 AM djellison They have made a simulated light curve based on DI... Feb 10 2011, 04:07 AM Phil Stooke Something to think about - this is a panel from my... Feb 10 2011, 10:32 PM
MahFL Stardust NExT 'Live' module is up and runn... Feb 11 2011, 11:25 AM
dilo Great maps, Phil... for sure you will soon update ... Feb 11 2011, 06:18 PM ElkGroveDan closer....... Feb 14 2011, 05:17 AM Astro0 Don't forget to login to the Eyes on the Solar... Feb 14 2011, 06:03 AM djellison I've heard that someone might be demoing it li... Feb 14 2011, 06:13 AM ElkGroveDan Don't have any chocolate the night before. Ne... Feb 14 2011, 06:43 AM MahFL What time does the NASA tv coverage start ? Feb 14 2011, 12:10 PM Astro0 Of course "what time?" depends on where ... Feb 14 2011, 12:18 PM MahFL I know, just being lazy, also I don't actually... Feb 14 2011, 12:27 PM stevesliva I don't know if these updates all came in at o... Feb 14 2011, 05:52 PM CosmicRocker QUOTE (Astro0 @ Feb 14 2011, 12:03 AM) Do... Feb 14 2011, 06:37 PM stevesliva So there was just a large solar flare. Did that s... Feb 14 2011, 09:02 PM brellis I have EoSS on and Norton telemetry says it's ... Feb 14 2011, 09:57 PM djellison You'll want to re-start EotSS later ( about 8.... Feb 14 2011, 10:12 PM ElkGroveDan I used EotSS this weekend to wash my car and it di... Feb 14 2011, 11:56 PM JohnVV my only gripe it
the site is MS only
i could bo... Feb 15 2011, 12:41 AM djellison QUOTE (JohnVV @ Feb 14 2011, 04:41 PM) my... Feb 15 2011, 08:08 AM Ron Hobbs When I try to go to the site, all I get is hash (b... Feb 15 2011, 12:54 AM djellison That sometimes happens before your GFX card has fi... Feb 15 2011, 01:31 AM nprev EoTSS running sweet here on Win7...nice view!
... Feb 15 2011, 01:55 AM ElkGroveDan While we are waiting for our Glorious Leader to ta... Feb 15 2011, 03:57 AM MahFL Watching. Feb 15 2011, 04:32 AM Explorer1 Broadcast started now on NASAtv. Feb 15 2011, 04:33 AM ZLD Its not PBS or the BBC, but it also receives a rea... Feb 15 2011, 04:35 AM Explorer1 Dust Flux instrument is on! Feb 15 2011, 04:38 AM CosmicRocker EotSS demo coming up soon! Feb 15 2011, 04:43 AM Explorer1 There's Doug! Feb 15 2011, 04:45 AM nprev Well done, Doug! Feb 15 2011, 04:48 AM Explorer1 Closest approach done! (my heart jumped when t... Feb 15 2011, 04:59 AM ZLD This is really a fantastic tool. Curious, is the ... Feb 15 2011, 05:01 AM ElkGroveDan The orbit of the comet is actually very well under... Feb 15 2011, 05:05 AM volcanopele QUOTE (ZLD @ Feb 14 2011, 10:01 PM) This ... Feb 15 2011, 05:44 AM Explorer1 More dust after CA than before; interesting. Feb 15 2011, 05:10 AM Hungry4info Not at all surprising, imho. Outbound, the spacecr... Feb 15 2011, 05:15 AM Astro0 Doug was pretty awesome.
This was his view http://... Feb 15 2011, 05:29 AM belleraphon1 Nicely done Doug!
Fun to watch simulation on ... Feb 15 2011, 05:45 AM Explorer1 3 Ice Tea bottles of fuel, haha! I was wonderi... Feb 15 2011, 05:48 AM Astro0 Hey, it's the boss!
Feb 15 2011, 05:56 AM CosmicRocker Yeah, demo II was terrific. Now, I know how to dr... Feb 15 2011, 06:11 AM Astro0 Canberra DSN did a great job today. Two antennas o... Feb 15 2011, 06:17 AM dilo Stardust seems very low on the horizon, indeed... Feb 15 2011, 06:28 AM Astro0 Yep, we've been tracking all day, so a full ho... Feb 15 2011, 06:33 AM elakdawalla Astro0, we don't say it enough: many many than... Feb 15 2011, 07:07 AM ZLD In relation to my question, I wasn't curious i... Feb 15 2011, 07:51 AM brellis Mr. Ellison, that was a great presentation! Feb 15 2011, 07:59 AM djellison We have a predicted trajectory for both spacecraft... Feb 15 2011, 08:02 AM Sunspot Whats going on? lots of people around monitors....... Feb 15 2011, 08:52 AM Gsnorgathon First images! Tiny ones, so far. ~2,500km away... Feb 15 2011, 09:15 AM Explorer1 First taken, rather then 'planned five'.
U... Feb 15 2011, 09:19 AM Gsnorgathon They're saying ~6hr wait to get the closest ap... Feb 15 2011, 09:22 AM Hungry4info Apparently, they intended to download the closest ... Feb 15 2011, 09:19 AM Astro0 First image. 20 x zoom
Better:
Feb 15 2011, 09:20 AM Explorer1 2 up at : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/stardust/
... Feb 15 2011, 09:23 AM ugordan QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Feb 15 2011, 10:23 AM)... Feb 15 2011, 09:44 AM Astro0 EDIT: Revised animation sequence - first 6 images ... Feb 15 2011, 09:55 AM ugordan 6th image is down. Also blurry.
Tick... tock... Feb 15 2011, 10:01 AM jasedm Hmmm tantalising, but still too early to say wheth... Feb 15 2011, 10:02 AM Toma B In image "n30007te01" 2 circular formati... Feb 15 2011, 10:20 AM ugordan I don't know, the sharpened images Astro0 post... Feb 15 2011, 10:24 AM 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 Phil Stooke Bright spot spoiler? - it was there before...
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