Mariner Mars 1964, Mariners 3 and 4 to Mars: imaging plans? |
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Mariner Mars 1964, Mariners 3 and 4 to Mars: imaging plans? |
 Jul 14 2008, 05:13 PM
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QUOTE (peter59 @ Jul 14 2008, 09:20 AM)  Today is the 43 anniversary of the first Mars flyby. I would like propose you a very interesting article written by Doug Rickard. Memoirs of a space engineer. Doug Rickard was a very unusual man, with very unusual biography. Doug worked on the British Atomic Weapons Tests at Maralinga in South Australia in the late 1950s, and was victim of incident known as "Maralinga Cobalt 60 incident". I emailed with him a few times maybe eight years ago. And on precisely the 50th anniversary of the Mariner IV flyby, New Horizons will reach Pluto. Our team has already begun compiling a list of Mariner IV alums to invite to see the first reconnaissance of the ninth planet at the edge of the classical planetary system. Alan Stern |
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Jul 15 2008, 03:32 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Alan, please forgive me, but I really do have to ask: Is this purely a coincidence, or a lucky but hoped-for hit based on NH's launch date? I know that nobody would ever waste fuel trying to make this really remarkable anniversary happen.
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Jul 15 2008, 03:36 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Could be just as much of as coincidence as January 14/15 being a popular times for major encounters/landings/flybys lately...
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Jul 15 2008, 08:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
The NH Pluto / Mariner 4 Mars flyby connection was pointed out by one of the UMSF folks here, and Alan had thought that was just great (a coincidence). This was after the Pluto flyby date was firmed up after launch.
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Jul 15 2008, 09:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 15 2008, 03:32 AM) Alan, please forgive me, but I really do have to ask: Is this purely a coincidence, or a lucky but hoped-for hit based on NH's launch date? I know that nobody would ever waste fuel trying to make this really remarkable anniversary happen. Nprev- It's just a coincidence I recognized a few years ago, but I like it-- it nicely symbolizes the bookend nature of NH. -Alan |
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Jul 15 2008, 11:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Viking 1 was sort of trying to land on July 4, 1976 <200th anniv of signing of the Declaration of Independence>, but landing site certification blew that date, so they had to settle for the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, instead.
Both dates were available within the "optimum" timeline and didn't take any fudging to try to achieve. |
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Jul 15 2008, 07:32 PM
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I have put together a little commemorative compilation of the Mariner 4 images, along with the nearest decent context image of the correct hemisphere in the International Mars Patrol collection in the lower right hand corner.
I have also attached a fused mosaic of frames 1-4 with the small gap filled using interpolation and false noise to give it an even texture. The other sets are too far away from each other for that to work.
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Jul 14 2010, 11:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
I would like to note that today is the 45th anniversary of the first close-up pictures from Mars.
Five more years and we will celebrate the 50th anniversary ... by looking at pictures from Pluto! 
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Dec 17 2010, 05:38 PM
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I'm looking for Mariner IV televison data tabular display. Twenty-eight pages of this format type were required for each picture. Reward is serious (except fame and glory) for the first complete picture (if it still exists). -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Dec 17 2010, 09:59 PM
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May be available from the NSSDC if you contact them. There's a page for Mariner 4 Master Data Records and Mariner 4 MDL Reacquisition Data on CD-WO. Not sure if either would include the full playback data or if any of them would be included but far as I can find, there is nothing available on their FTP regarding the raw data. Here are all of the raw converted photos though.
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Dec 17 2010, 11:15 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
There was a long discussion of this deeper back in this section if you go looking. One problem about NSSDC is that the archive medium was film - negatives, in other words, not digital or paper.
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Dec 17 2010, 11:47 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I have tried multiple places (including the NSSDC), and I am starting to believe that the volume doesn't exist.
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Dec 17 2010, 11:54 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I think this - http://mm04.nasaimages.org/MediaManager/sr...mp;profileid=21 - or something VERY similar to it is in the hall of the Media Relations offices at JPL. I'll gigapan it one day - you can read every single number off it.
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Dec 18 2010, 12:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
That's pretty neat. So they took all the matrices and hand colored each number basically?
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Dec 18 2010, 12:29 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
They bracketed the values into big ranges - and each range got a different color
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