Mariner Mars 1971 ( First orbiter Mariner 9 ) |
Mariner Mars 1971 ( First orbiter Mariner 9 ) |
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Apr 27 2008, 03:32 PM
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The 998 kg Mariner 9 was launched on 30th May 1971 and arrived at the red planet on 14th November 1971 to become the first planetary orbiter:
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Apr 28 2008, 06:04 PM
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4 years ago I prepared a series of articles on the subject of " Mapping the planet Mars & its Moons "...
At JPL I asked about the Mariner 9 globes and they confirmed there's still one at JPL somewhere in a warehouse! What a shame, I believe they should show it during the upcoming JPL Open House weekend of 03 & 04 May 2008 I have a lot of information about these globes and to summarize: The task of planning & supervising the mosaicing of the 4-foot globes was assigned to Elmer Christensen, who designed the protractor to precisely locate the 1500 photographs on each globe. Each Mariner 9 mapping image was produced in one of three projections: "Mercator" for the equatorial latitudes, 'Polar Stereographic' for the polar regions and 'Lambert' for the intermediate regions. The first globe was re-photographed in 452 roughly rectangular segments, which allowed the construction of a 6-foot diameter globe for the von Karman auditorium of the JPL campus in pasadena CA. |
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