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SSI camera pointing, first 4 sols
jmknapp
post May 30 2008, 08:18 PM
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I've been playing with the NAIF SPICE kernels for Phoenix. These can be used to among other things determine where the instruments are pointing to at a given time. Here are some results looking at where the SSI camera has been pointing for the first few sols:



It looks like so far they been using the SSI around 10-12pm UTC every day. The code to generate the plots samples the pointing info every ten seconds. Here are some detail views of each period of activity. It's kinda fun to try to figure out what their objective is in each run:











Kind of artistic, some of them.

The left eye shows much less activity--maybe it's only used for stereo imaging.

PS Sorry for all the large images--I don't know how to scale them down more.


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- jmknapp   SSI camera pointing, first 4 sols   May 30 2008, 08:18 PM
- - djellison   Those are very cool - I'm going to see if I ca...   May 30 2008, 09:48 PM
|- - jmknapp   QUOTE (djellison @ May 30 2008, 05:48 PM)...   May 30 2008, 10:13 PM
- - djellison   Well - you pulled that data into an XLS didn't...   May 30 2008, 10:56 PM
- - jmknapp   QUOTE (djellison @ May 30 2008, 05:56 PM)...   May 31 2008, 01:11 AM

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