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Mars Comet Encounter Observations, C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, 19 Oct 2014 |
 Jul 25 2014, 12:39 PM
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The first Sol 699 Navcam images are available, so it seems the journey can go on.
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Jul 25 2014, 06:36 PM
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News release from NASA mentions this possible future observation for the rovers:
"...Rover cameras may be used to observe the comet [Siding Spring] before the flyby, and to monitor the atmosphere for meteors while the comet's dust trail is closest to the planet..." What are the chances that Deimos or Phobos could get in the shot along with the comet? That would be extraordinarily cool! |
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Oct 18 2014, 11:15 AM
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Nice animation--good to see all the players at once, except the Indian orbiter, which doesn't use SPICE, unfortunately.
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Oct 18 2014, 06:55 PM
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QUOTE (jmknapp @ Oct 18 2014, 04:15 AM)  except the Indian orbiter, which doesn't use SPICE, unfortunately. It does. If you're being talked to by the DSN and JPL is helping with navigation - believe me - there's SPICE involved. It might not be publicly available - but there IS SPICE data. If you go into HORIZONS Telnet and ping for MOM - you will see this CODE Name Start (CT) Stop (CT) --------------------------------------- ----------------- ----------------- 131105-131109_od003_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-05 09:53 2013-Nov-05 17:01 131105-131109_od005_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-05 17:01 2013-Nov-06 20:22 131106-131111_od008_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-06 20:22 2013-Nov-07 21:27 131107-131111_od011_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-07 21:27 2013-Nov-08 21:16 131108-131113_od013-newEBN4_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-08 21:16 2013-Nov-09 22:31 131108-131112_od014_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-09 22:31 2013-Nov-10 00:01 131110-131113_od017_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-10 00:01 2013-Nov-10 21:29 131110-131114_od018_v2_dsn 2013-Nov-10 21:29 2013-Nov-12 00:01 131112-131130_od022_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-12 00:01 2013-Nov-15 20:20 131115-131211_od032_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-15 20:20 2013-Nov-25 13:01 131125-140926_od033_v1_dsn 2013-Nov-25 13:01 2013-Nov-30 20:01 131130-140926_od041_v1_withTCM1_dsn 2013-Nov-30 20:01 2013-Dec-11 09:56 131211-140926_od090_v1_dsn 2013-Dec-11 09:56 2014-Feb-19 04:01 140219-140926_od170_v1_dsn 2014-Feb-19 04:01 2014-Apr-15 02:01 140415-140926_od205_v1_dsn 2014-Apr-15 02:01 2014-Jul-26 22:31 140726-150925_od222_v1_MOI 2014-Jul-26 22:31 2014-Sep-24 02:15 140924-141024_od227_v1_dsn 2014-Sep-24 02:15 2014-Sep-27 01:41 140927-141029_od230_v1_dsn 2014-Sep-27 01:41 2014-Sep-30 03:46 140930-141125_od232_v1-PHASEMVR_JPL 2014-Sep-30 03:46 2014-Oct-03 22:21 141003-141107_od235_v1_dsn 2014-Oct-03 22:21 2014-Oct-12 20:16 141012-141115_od237_v1_dsn 2014-Oct-12 20:16 2014-Nov-15 12:01 That's all filenames of SPICE BSPs Doug |
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