Sol 3 and onwards - imaging Options

[PFK]

I was just going for familiarity.

oh I know, and that makes eminent sense; just a strange thought, though, that it brought on - obtaining funding through the sponsoring of features

[Nix]

Phoenix - in TallovisioN - WAY more horizon relief than I was expecting.

I like that one a lot -second you on expecting way less.

Nico

[CAP-Team]

Here's a Dutch commercial for an insurance company

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXNMAiJeD0c

[algorimancer]

...my first Phoenix mosaic so I thought I'd show it off anyway.

Very nice. Made me feel like I was "there" for the first time :

CODE

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[bgarlick]

Is there a way to know when each day's pictures will be made available?
Is there a site with scheduling information for when the expected 'afternoon' downlink will take place? (This way
we can set an alarm to check instead of doing bandwidth wasting polling of the phoenix image gallery website).
Will the downlinks occur approx 39 minutes later each day because the sol is longer than a day?

[Fred]

Maybe I hadn't been following the mission closely enough, but I thought there was going to be an instrument on Phoenix that would take pictures of the ground below during the descent. Did this instrument not make it onto Phoenix? I guess we don't really need it due to the MRO images. Is such an instrument still planed for MSL?

[nilstycho]

Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) was on Phoenix, but it was unfortunately decided not to turn it on during landing. There was a slight risk of interference with the landing operation itself. You can read more here. Another MARDI will fly on MSL (although for a brief time it was announced that it would be cut for lack of funds).

[Reed]

Will the downlinks occur approx 39 minutes later each day because the sol is longer than a day?

You'd expect this to be roughly true since they'd try to return the data at the end of each sol, but keep in mind that also depends on when the orbiter doing the relay (currently Odyssey, but also including MRO once they figure out the radio issue) has a good pass. Odysseys orbital period is about two hours, and not every pass is favorable. Then the orbiter has to return the data via DSN which has it's on scheduling issues.

So my outsiders guess is it will be ~40 minutes later every day on average, but +/- a couple of hours on any given day. A publicly accessible schedule would be awesome

[bgarlick]

New images arriving.

Is this solid ice exposed by the retro rockets under the lander?

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=836&cID=25

[um3k]

http://fawkes3.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=8

New images! Including optical microscope.

[bgarlick]

Also (as was requested here) they are now sorting images by sol

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/imageCategories_lander.php

[dvandorn]

C/5 = (F-32)/9

and I've carried that in my head for over 40 years !

I always calculate it out from the equation that one degree C equals 1.8 degrees F.

-the other Doug

[Steve G]

We Canadians are bilingual not just in French and English (My wife is French so I speak it as well) but also when it comes to metric and inches and farenheight. Even though we've been metric for 30 years, drive in kilometers, buy a litre of milk and speak in kilos, ask our height and weight, we'll give you feet - inches, and pounds on a scale - every time.

[Steve G]

To answer my own question about self portraits wityh the Robotic Arm Camera, I reazized that unfortuntealy the camer is fixed above the wrist, so it really doesn't have a way of turning back from a distance to view the lander. The only way is to fold itself to the point it is just above the deck.

[Stu]

Also (as was requested here) they are now sorting images by sol

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/imageCategories_lander.php

Fantastic, really great job. Many congratulations and thanks to the Phoenix team, who are clearly up and running already, very organised, very quick and putting out some really good products too. These posters are excellent and well worth printing out. Take a look at the postcards too, you'll want those on your wall...