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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, 09:40 PM
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I was going by this from a NAIF newsletter from last year:
QUOTE ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) will not use SPICE. (Although apparently one or more Indian Remote Sensing earth satellites do use SPICE.) For ISRO's moon orbiter I found this slide from NAIF QUOTE India (ISRO) – Poor SPICE ops on Chandrayaan-1 » Much good data cobbled together by M**3 team » No sign of an archive so far Maybe the files are from another source than ISRO? -------------------- |
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Oct 19 2014, 12:46 AM
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QUOTE (jmknapp @ Oct 18 2014, 02:40 PM)  Maybe the files are from another source than ISRO? Let me put it another way. The DSN is using SPICE data generated by JPL nav team. We use the exact same SPICE data in Eyes on the Solar System. That same SPICE data is driving anything people get from HORIZONS. |
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