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Mars Comet Encounter Observations, C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, 19 Oct 2014
Gerald
post 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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walfy
post 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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post Oct 21 2014, 11:07 AM
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Trying my hand at identifying stars in the noise (hats off to those who do this routinely), I think I identified Epsilon Boötis (aka Izar) in 0783MR0033840030204197C00_DXXX and find a potential candidate for Siding Spring:

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Izar is at RA/dec 14:44:59/27.07 and SS per the August SPICE file was at 14:45:47/25.19. The candidate for SS isn't quite at that location, but the report from HiRISE was that SS wasn't in the predicted position exactly.


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