UMSF space history photo of the month |
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Mar 8 2010, 04:51 PM
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45 years ago: UMSF avant la lettre: A photo of Mars taken by Mariner IV during it's July 1965 flyby of the red planet is colored with pencils according to the gray-scale of the pixels. The 260 kg spacecraft was launched in November 1964, flew by Mars in July 1965 and last contact was established in December 1967...
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Apr 1 2010, 02:04 PM
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Apr 1 2010, 05:39 PM
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#123
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 5-June 06 From: Minnesota, USA Member No.: 808 |
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Apr 1 2010, 06:48 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10185 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I thought the same.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 1 2010, 09:27 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I immediately thought 'traffic cone... that's a bit Rangerish'
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Apr 1 2010, 11:11 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hmm. Yeah, I see a Ranger antenna in the distant background, and IIRC Ranger & the Mariners used a similar bus. I'm gonna be a heretic & narrow it down to Mariner 5, 6, or 7...think I see something like cameras, so, what the hell: Mariner 6?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 2 2010, 04:28 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10185 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
No... cuz Mariners 6 and 7 didn't have that unique 'traffic cone' structure to house the cameras and antenna.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 17 2010, 10:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
From JPL's Beacon: "image processing" 40 years ago... Mariner Mars 1971 Photo Mosaic
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Aug 8 2010, 08:35 AM
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Exactly 30 years ago the Russians readied the 5700 kg Luna 16 spacecraft for launch by a Proton rocket.
In September of 1970, Luna 16 achieved the first successful unmanned sample return from the Moon. The spacecraft had a deployable arm with a 0.90 m drill appendage, which percussioned the lunar surface and then lifted up into the open hatch of the 40 kg return capsule, which sat ontop the 520 kg ascent stage. This was a huge spacecraft! |
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Aug 9 2010, 09:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 30-December 05 Member No.: 628 |
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Guest_Lunik9_* |
Sep 2 2010, 03:44 PM
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Indeed 40 years ago !!!!
In September 1970 Soviet-Russian Luna 16 performed the first unmanned sample return. All that remained from the 5700 kg spacecraft was a 0.50 m re-entry capsule of 39 kg which brought about 100 grams of lunar material back to Earth. I've included a seldom seen color photo of this remarkable spacecraft: |
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Guest_Lunik9_* |
Oct 1 2010, 03:39 PM
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Artist's impression by Dutch space artist Ed Hengeveld:
On the 17th October 2010, the 478 kg New Horizons spacecraft will be half-way to Pluto-Charon, at least in terms of travel time. In half a decade, astronomers worldwide will be looking at Trans-Neptunian Objects and might come up with an answer why the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt has such a sharp outer edge at 50 Astronomical Units from our Sun... |
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Guest_Lunik9_* |
Oct 31 2010, 01:53 PM
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25 years ago, the Russian Intercosmos council and ESA agreed to participate in a Russian-led mission to Phobos, the largest moon of the planet Mars. NASA agreed to cooperate with the DSN tracking stations. Phobos 1: Launch : 7th July 1988 - Contact lost: 2nd September 1988 Phobos 2: Launch : 12th July 1988 - Mars orbit : 29th January 1989 - Contact lost: 27th March 1989 Next year, a new Russian Phobos-Grunt mission (proposed in 1992) is planned to launch from Kazakhstan to the red planet in order to land on Phobos and bring back samples to Earth! |
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Nov 1 2010, 01:17 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 22-March 09 From: West Hartford, Connecicut Member No.: 4691 |
To bad it has taken so long to return.
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Nov 6 2011, 10:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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