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Moon Images By SMART-1
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post 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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post Mar 7 2006, 12:36 PM
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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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post Mar 7 2006, 04:26 PM
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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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post Mar 7 2006, 04:46 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Mar 7 2006, 04:26 PM) *
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!

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post Mar 7 2006, 05:33 PM
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That's a relief! I found Ranger 9 way too traumatic.

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post Mar 7 2006, 09:39 PM
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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...

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post Mar 7 2006, 10:21 PM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 7 2006, 09:39 PM) *
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...

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oDougal:

No, no, *these* craters are big, but far away. And *those* craters are small, but close by. Yes, Mrs Doyle, what is it?

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post Mar 7 2006, 10:34 PM
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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 smile.gif

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post Mar 9 2006, 05:34 PM
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Yet another SMART-1 image - actually a mosaic -at:

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=38921

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post Mar 9 2006, 08:22 PM
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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!

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post Mar 22 2006, 12:43 PM
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New image today.

Tectonic ‘wrinkles’ in Crater De Gasparis
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEME93OVGJE_0.html
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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.

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More images here....

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http://www.space-x.ch/news.htm


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post Mar 24 2006, 10:03 AM
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And here are the images which Phil pointed us at:

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post Apr 1 2006, 08:22 PM
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SMART-1 performed a tracking observation on Reiner Gamma

http://smart.esa.int/science-e/www/object/...fobjectid=39022
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