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What's the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT?
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post Jan 16 2010, 01:15 AM
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Stay tuned, HiFans, we'll be making a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT next Wednesday...! :-o

Hmmm... is it literally something BIG, or maybe they found MPL?
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Phil Stooke
post Jan 17 2010, 09:48 PM
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"255 x 320 km, and no, there are no plans to lower it."

How about to raise it late in the mission, to delay possible contamination?

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post Jan 18 2010, 12:07 AM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 17 2010, 01:48 PM) *
How about to raise it late in the mission, to delay possible contamination?

In the mission plan, it was to be raised at the end of 2010 (end of the relay mission) but I haven't heard anything about that recently. If consumables are doing OK I expect that will be delayed as long as possible. They never did raise the orbit of MGS AFAIK.

Also, MRO's breakup analysis showed there were no planetary protection issues if it did crash; there was some sterilization to insure this (e.g., cable bundles.) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AdSpR..42.1108B


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- Sunspot   What's the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT?   Jan 16 2010, 01:15 AM
- - elakdawalla   Terrible teases, aren't they? What a way to d...   Jan 16 2010, 02:05 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 15 2010, 06:05 P...   Jan 16 2010, 04:08 AM
- - lyford   A direct tie in with unmannedspaceflight.com?   Jan 16 2010, 02:54 AM
- - dmuller   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 16 2010, 01:05 P...   Jan 16 2010, 03:56 AM
- - Hungry4info   Maybe they discovered water on Mars! More...   Jan 16 2010, 04:26 AM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jan 15 2010, 08:26 P...   Jan 16 2010, 05:42 AM
|- - Sunspot   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 16 2010, 05:42 A...   Jan 16 2010, 09:25 AM
- - eoincampbell   Why are we waiting?   Jan 16 2010, 05:57 AM
- - Patteroast   How many times has water on Mars been discovered? ...   Jan 16 2010, 06:32 AM
- - nprev   If it IS water, it'd better be an active geyse...   Jan 16 2010, 06:47 AM
- - Stu   I hope it isn't just the discovery of MPL or B...   Jan 16 2010, 08:18 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 16 2010, 09:18 AM) I hop...   Jan 16 2010, 12:41 PM
- - Paolo   or combining all three main themes (old spacecraft...   Jan 16 2010, 08:22 AM
- - nprev   ...okay, gotta remember, NEVER be in the middle of...   Jan 16 2010, 08:29 AM
- - Stu   Actually, to deliberately use the word "big...   Jan 16 2010, 08:47 AM
- - Hungry4info   I'm unfortunately rather lacking in understand...   Jan 16 2010, 10:04 AM
- - ngunn   http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/spac...nstru...   Jan 16 2010, 10:14 AM
- - monitorlizard   The best discovery would be if MRO found more mone...   Jan 16 2010, 12:04 PM
- - Stu   Partly kidding, yes I'm just worried about t...   Jan 16 2010, 01:28 PM
- - AndyG   Why Wednesday? Is this linked to Wednesday being ...   Jan 16 2010, 02:54 PM
- - elakdawalla   I assume it's Wednesday because that's whe...   Jan 16 2010, 03:17 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 16 2010, 08:17 A...   Jan 16 2010, 07:13 PM
- - Stu   Is this a "covered on NASA TV" thing, or...   Jan 16 2010, 03:28 PM
- - ilbasso   It's either (1) the S.S. Minnow, (2) Amelia Ea...   Jan 16 2010, 03:55 PM
- - elakdawalla   No press release or impending conference or anythi...   Jan 16 2010, 04:11 PM
- - Stu   Yeah, I'm beginning to think this is a bit of ...   Jan 16 2010, 04:23 PM
- - nprev   Hmm. Enigmatic! Monday's probably a ke...   Jan 16 2010, 07:25 PM
- - Decepticon   If it is the polar lander, I would be surpised if ...   Jan 16 2010, 07:25 PM
- - mcaplinger   Because this is a HiRISE-only thing, I'm think...   Jan 16 2010, 07:58 PM
|- - PaulM   I remember that a Crism scientist once said that C...   Jan 16 2010, 09:37 PM
|- - tharrison   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jan 16 2010, 11:58 AM...   Jan 17 2010, 01:00 AM
- - nprev   Yeah, I was thinking that my pet hope (hot spring)...   Jan 16 2010, 08:03 PM
- - PDP8E   ... after working my meager sources for info I hav...   Jan 16 2010, 08:03 PM
- - nprev   Any of the lost landers would definitely be a majo...   Jan 16 2010, 08:08 PM
- - remcook   It's not pregnant, is it? It's got to be ...   Jan 16 2010, 08:52 PM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (remcook @ Jan 16 2010, 08:52 PM) I...   Jan 16 2010, 08:55 PM
|- - alan   QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 16 2010, 02:55 PM) Whate...   Jan 17 2010, 01:38 AM
||- - tharrison   QUOTE (alan @ Jan 16 2010, 05:38 PM) They...   Jan 17 2010, 02:04 AM
|- - sgendreau   They re-imaged Eagle Crater and spotted boot print...   Jan 17 2010, 06:09 AM
- - nprev   ...yeah, the headline "Mars Orbiter Transform...   Jan 16 2010, 09:13 PM
- - scalbers   Speaking of stromatolites, could it be related to ...   Jan 16 2010, 09:39 PM
- - nprev   In order to reduce the peril of going astray, sugg...   Jan 16 2010, 09:57 PM
- - Decepticon   Out of curiosity can they lower MRO orbit in the f...   Jan 17 2010, 02:42 AM
- - nprev   I kinda doubt it. The mapping orbit is something l...   Jan 17 2010, 03:07 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 16 2010, 07:07 PM) The...   Jan 17 2010, 03:13 AM
- - imipak   For the reason Mcaplinger gave, I don't expect...   Jan 17 2010, 06:27 PM
- - nprev   Mike, hopefully not OT, but why is MRO's orbit...   Jan 17 2010, 09:09 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 17 2010, 01:09 PM) Mik...   Jan 18 2010, 12:03 AM
- - Phil Stooke   "255 x 320 km, and no, there are no plans to ...   Jan 17 2010, 09:48 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 17 2010, 01:48 P...   Jan 18 2010, 12:07 AM
- - Juramike   Maybe Mars Express photobombed a HiRise image?   Jan 18 2010, 12:35 AM
- - siravan   The entire January issue of Icarus is dedicated to...   Jan 19 2010, 04:20 AM
|- - Sunspot   QUOTE (siravan @ Jan 19 2010, 04:20 AM) T...   Jan 20 2010, 10:05 AM
- - djellison   Why are you assuming it's in any of them. No p...   Jan 19 2010, 07:23 AM
|- - siravan   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 19 2010, 02:23 AM)...   Jan 19 2010, 11:22 AM
- - Stu   I know what you're saying Siravan, but I think...   Jan 19 2010, 11:55 AM
- - Phil Stooke   All these points suggest it's only big to peop...   Jan 19 2010, 12:13 PM
- - cassioli   I subscribe discussion... hoping you'll not po...   Jan 19 2010, 02:45 PM
- - djellison   It's only gone public today. It's access,...   Jan 20 2010, 02:55 PM
- - Hungry4info   Great, now we can expect weekly images from Cydoni...   Jan 20 2010, 03:24 PM
- - Juramike   I think this is a massive announcement, almost the...   Jan 20 2010, 03:35 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Juramike @ Jan 20 2010, 03:35 PM) ...   Jan 20 2010, 03:39 PM
|- - tharrison   I thought this might be the announcement because i...   Jan 20 2010, 11:50 PM
- - mcaplinger   Interesting that it took the "People's Ca...   Jan 20 2010, 03:38 PM
- - Juramike   Oh, I agree. This is a continuation of that, and ...   Jan 20 2010, 03:43 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Darn - I'm still rooting for MPL. Someone in ...   Jan 20 2010, 04:07 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jan 20 2010, 04:38 PM...   Jan 20 2010, 05:28 PM
- - eoincampbell   Well, I was about to request more possible MPL sit...   Jan 20 2010, 06:29 PM
- - Greg Hullender   We should call this sort of technology "Space...   Jan 20 2010, 06:32 PM
|- - helvick   Scott Maxwell's Mars 3.0 presentation at Gnome...   Jan 20 2010, 07:12 PM
- - elakdawalla   I started a new thread for discussions of spots th...   Jan 20 2010, 08:33 PM

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