Moon Images By SMART-1 |
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Mar 3 2006, 09:13 PM
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I kind of doubt that. The thing to keep in mind about SMART-1 is that it's really quite a high-altitude lunar orbiter, and its camera's lens is quite small. All its photos were bound to be wide-angle, low-resolution shots that really didn't show us anything we haven't seen before. (It is, after all, an engineering test mission; its science output is optional.) I've always thought that the really interesting data from it will all come from its near-IR and X-ray spectrometers -- the former has never been done from lunar orbit at all, and the latter has never been done from a polar orbit.
When push comes to shove, when the ESA launches something, it usually works. |
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Mar 7 2006, 12:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
http://space.com/missionlaunches/060307_smart1_moon.html
Engineers and scientists are now targeting SMART-1 for possible impact on the Moon around September 1-2. The current uncertainty range for the exact time of impact is 15 hours. At the end of June, SMART-1 is slated to carry out two maneuvers. These will fine-tune the exact time of impact. Those slight thrust firings will lead to the spacecraft flying over the Moon at its lowest point at below186 miles (300 kilometers) in altitude. In early August, SMART-1 will make an overflight of its eventual impact site, racing over that area at just 75 miles (120 kilometers) height in what’s termed as “rehearsal” mode for the early September run-in with the Moon. A current orbit simulation of the SMART-1 impact for September 2 is at lunar longitude 44.54 degrees West and 36.22 South in Lacus Excellentiae, 10 degrees south of Mare Humorum. A far more refined target point will come as the event draws closer. Impact observations would include: Infrared imaging of thermal flash; visible/infrared imaging of ejected clouds; hydrazine flame detection; post-characterization of ejecta; as well as exospheric effects if lunar material is blasted high off the Moon’s surface. In addition there is also intent to conduct follow up searches for the crater produced by SMART-1’s crash into the Moon via the sensor eyes of future, follow-on lunar orbiters. |
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Mar 7 2006, 04:26 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I wonder if will give us a Ranger-like sequence...I don't know anything about Smart-1's transmission capabilities, so I don't know if this is even possible. But I sure hope it is!
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Mar 7 2006, 04:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
I wonder if will give us a Ranger-like sequence...I don't know anything about Smart-1's transmission capabilities, so I don't know if this is even possible. But I sure hope it is! Oh yes, it will transmit one picture every 2.5 seconds as it descends, for nearly 12 minutes. Trouble is, ESA will then release them at the rate of one picture a month, over a period of about 15 years. Cheers, ESA! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 7 2006, 05:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10122 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That's a relief! I found Ranger 9 way too traumatic.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 7 2006, 09:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
And don't forget, ESA will claim in every picture they release that they have made the exciting new discovery that the Moon's craters get smaller and smaller as you get closer and closer...
-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 7 2006, 10:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
And don't forget, ESA will claim in every picture they release that they have made the exciting new discovery that the Moon's craters get smaller and smaller as you get closer and closer... -the other Doug oDougal: No, no, *these* craters are big, but far away. And *those* craters are small, but close by. Yes, Mrs Doyle, what is it? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 7 2006, 10:34 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I don't think I've visited a forum where "small.....faaaaar away" hasn't come up at least twice. Fundamentally, it's the reason I set this place up, so I could have further excuses to quote Python and Father Ted
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Mar 9 2006, 05:34 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10122 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yet another SMART-1 image - actually a mosaic -at:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=38921 Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 9 2006, 08:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Oh! All Praise Blessed ESA!
We, your humble taxpayers, thank you for the signal boon of yet another four glorious images, miraculously transformed into a never-before-imagined mosaic of stunning and unmatched quality! We are not worthy! We are not worthy! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 22 2006, 12:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
New image today.
Tectonic ‘wrinkles’ in Crater De Gasparis http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEME93OVGJE_0.html |
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Mar 23 2006, 02:12 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10122 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This image is a comparison of SMART-1 and Clementine to show the differences in resolution and illumination. The large crater is De Gasparis, the most recent released image. I'm not sure if we will have global coverage like this, but it will be a very nice dataset when it is eventually released. As I understand it, global coverage from LRO will not be significantly better than this. Only small areas will be seen at very high resolution by LRO, like MOC at Mars.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 23 2006, 08:31 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10122 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 24 2006, 10:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Apr 1 2006, 08:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
SMART-1 performed a tracking observation on Reiner Gamma
http://smart.esa.int/science-e/www/object/...fobjectid=39022 |
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