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OSIRIS-REX mission to 1999 RQ36 (Bennu), New Frontiers Mission to Launch in 2016
mcaplinger
post Sep 27 2017, 06:54 AM
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QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Sep 26 2017, 08:39 PM) *
Are these images actually circular rather than rectangular?

Not sure what you mean by this.
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And can we expect those drop outs (?) as the "norm"?

Did you actually read the caption?

"The dark vertical streaks at the top of the image are caused by short exposure times (less than three milliseconds). Short exposure times are required for imaging an object as bright as Earth, but are not anticipated for an object as dark as the asteroid Bennu, which the camera was designed to image."

That said, I'm not sure why short exposure times would cause streaking like that -- maybe blooming from the horizontal register?



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post Sep 27 2017, 10:39 AM
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QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Sep 27 2017, 08:54 AM) *
Not sure what you mean by this.

I'd guess the jagged limb Earth displays indicating this is an orthographic projection (due to noticeable s/c motion or whatever) instead of a straight-up RGB composite.


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post Sep 27 2017, 01:53 PM
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I thought they were truncated lines due to undercompression. We saw that with Galileo and Cassini, though on Cassini, we had truncated lines every other line to allow for interpolation.


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post Sep 27 2017, 03:36 PM
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I thought it might have been a reprojection as well but you can see some of the image goes above the limb of the planet on the upper-left side. I'm at work right now so I don't have the ability to circle it in an image, I'm afraid. The whole picture looks like it was taken through a circular window that's slightly misaligned/off-centre with Earth.


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post Sep 27 2017, 04:31 PM
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I guess this is what Hungry's referring to - this is a gamma-tweaked crop:
Attached Image

You can see that it looks like the image was masked to black outside a circle. It's noticable at the top of the frame because the mask follows the true edge of the Earth which is in shadow there (the phase is slightly gibbous) rather than the visible limb.

Presumably this was done to get rid of some noise in the black regions. Hopefully they didn't mask out too much of the bright limb, but the bright limb looks too sharp (ie it looks aliased) rather than PSF-y as you'd expect...
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post Sep 28 2017, 06:26 PM
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more pics. including the Moon
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/o...th-and-the-moon
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post Oct 11 2017, 05:34 AM
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Earth anf Moon in color
http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-new...arth-moon-color
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post Jan 30 2018, 10:12 PM
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QUOTE (Paolo @ Oct 11 2017, 05:34 AM) *


Late reply, but fantastic image. reminds me of Carl Sagan's famous 'pale blue dot' quote:

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"

I'm seriously missing Cassini-Huygens, but starting to get excited about this mission now - I wonder what Bennu will be like? Itokawa-esque? Similar to Eros? Mathilde? Gaspra?

Hoping that there's a suitable place to take a sample without hazardous terrain - an area of 'ponding' perhaps, that's free of large boulders or gravel that's too large for the sample-arm to capture.

Only seven months away now....

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post Aug 24 2018, 08:03 AM
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August 17th 2018,
Osiris Rex officially started the Approach Phase to Bennu,

https://www.asteroidmission.org/asteroid-operations/
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post Aug 24 2018, 02:18 PM
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NASA Teleconference today at 2pm Eastern

NASA to Host Media Briefing on Mission to Return Asteroid Sample to Earth
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-...sample-to-earth


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post Oct 3 2018, 04:51 PM
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Hi folks, just doing a little thread maintenance. I created a new forum for OSIRIS-REx, and am closing this early thread. Please move on to the Asteroid Approach thread to discuss science operations!


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