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Deep Impact's Coverage

hal_9000 View Member Profile	Jul 1 2005, 04:02 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-April 05 Member No.: 358	I open this topic to the Monday event! In SpaceflightNOW: NASA's Deep Impact mission promises to create spectacular July Fourth fireworks in space when it shoots a 820-pound copper-tipped bullet into the frigid heart of Comet Tempel 1, creating a window to materials frozen in time since the solar system was born. The washing machine-sized projectile will be released from its mothership spacecraft at 2:07 a.m. EDT (0607 GMT) Sunday for the day-long cruise to oblivion. "We put the impactor in the comet's path so that the comet overtakes it. So it is like standing in the middle of the road with semi truck bearing down on you," said Rick Grammier, Deep Impact project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The impactor and comet collide at 1:52 a.m. EDT (0552 GMT) Monday, releasing the energy equivalent of 4.5 tons of exploding TNT as they smash together at 23,000 mph. The intense forces vaporize the projectile as the circular crater -- perhaps 300 feet in diameter and 100 feet deep -- is rapidly excavated. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/status.html

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deglr6328 View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:12 AM Post #46
Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190	I find that http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/rrg2.p...er/nasatv-cc.rm is quite good. Nice fast link. Audio is a bit rubbish but that seems to be the case with all the ra streams.... I've been trying to get on IRC freenode but keep getting: "Banned: freenode-admin; Please upgrade mIRC. Version 6.01 creates security exposures." yet I'm using v6.16 .....so not sure how others are faring there...

jaredGalen View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:23 AM Post #47
Member Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 18-December 04 Member No.: 123	QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 4 2005, 06:10 AM) Nope - HRI stuff is being kept back so they can process it Doug Some HRI being shown now from the science room on the stream. -------------------- Turn the middle side topwise....TOPWISE!!

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Jul 4 2005, 05:24 AM

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Here's an impacting targeting sensor image from a few minutes ago - the on-screen RealPlayer images show what they say are almost real-time deconvolved images, but I can't grab them. You can certainly see nucleus details, though!

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lyford View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:29 AM Post #49
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124	no sure if anyone posted this already kitt peak live image of Tempel http://www.noao.edu/news/deep-impact/ -------------------- Lyford Rome "Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

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Jul 4 2005, 05:35 AM

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Another impacting targeting sensor image from a few minutes ago - some detail now visible.

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Jul 4 2005, 05:38 AM

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An enlargement...

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Jul 4 2005, 05:39 AM

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HRI realtime deconvolution few mins ago from NASA TV:

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lyford View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:43 AM Post #53
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124	doh - kitt peak must be swamped! "could not open the page “http://www.noao.edu/news/deep-impact/” because the server stopped responding." though here are some other images Spaceflight Now -------------------- Lyford Rome "Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

Bob Shaw View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:44 AM Post #54
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239	QUOTE (dilo @ Jul 4 2005, 06:39 AM) HRI realtime deconvolution few mins ago from NASA TV: Dilo: How'd you do that? (sigh) Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!

dilo View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:46 AM Post #55
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jul 4 2005, 05:44 AM) Dilo: How'd you do that? (sigh) Bob Shaw Grab from NASATV.. you found also here:http://www.spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/050704firstcloseups.html -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

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Jul 4 2005, 05:47 AM

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QUOTE (lyford @ Jul 4 2005, 06:43 AM)

doh -
kitt peak must be swamped!
"could not open the page “http://www.noao.edu/news/deep-impact/” because the server stopped responding."

though here are some other images
Spaceflight Now

Like this?

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djellison View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:48 AM Post #57
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	If you turn off hardware acceleration for video playback, you can take screengrabs of things like realplayer and wmp Doug

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Jul 4 2005, 05:49 AM

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And the other one:

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lyford View Member Profile	Jul 4 2005, 05:51 AM Post #59
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124	He's switched off his targeting computer! No wait, that's Star Wars, sorry 20 seconds to impact! -------------------- Lyford Rome "Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

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Jul 4 2005, 05:56 AM

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Looks like the locals are out already, welcoming their new visitors!

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