Perseverance Arrival- Media Coverage, Press Conferences, Schedules, Etc. |
Perseverance Arrival- Media Coverage, Press Conferences, Schedules, Etc. |
Jan 27 2021, 03:16 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hey, all. So we're roughly 21 days (Earth, not Mars! ) from touchdown right now, and NASA has released a schedule of planned arrival coverage (link below). Their first look-ahead briefing is tomorrow. This thread will serve as a place to post resources for landing coverage, esp. given that some of our international members may be interested in local and/or language-specific options for same. If you happen know of any of those please post links here.
As per UMSF custom, there will be a dedicated landing thread opened for the big event when we get close. Remember to have your snacks & beverages of choice ready, and peanuts are optional but encouraged! NASA Perseverance Arrival Coverage (Scheduled) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 27 2021, 04:10 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The Eyes on the Solar System team have still got a few tweaks to make - but their EDL experience is up and live. Unlike with MSL when you had to download and install it - it's now a WebGL thing...... https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/
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Jan 27 2021, 09:13 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Ridiculously cool. Thanks, Doug!!!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 27 2021, 02:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 3-February 20 From: Paris (France) Member No.: 8747 |
Error !
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Jan 27 2021, 02:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 3-February 20 From: Paris (France) Member No.: 8747 |
Hello,
Thank you for this invitation to promote "local" events to follow the landing of Perseverance. Pour les francophones, il y a par exemple une émission produite par le CNES (Centre National des Etudes Spatiales) : https://supercam.cnes.fr/fr/capsurmars-atte...ge-perseverance Une conférence organisée en numérique à la Cité des Sciences à Paris : http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/au-programm...c-perseverance/ |
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Jan 27 2021, 04:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
As per UMSF custom, there will be a dedicated landing thread opened for the big event when we get close. Remember to have your snacks & beverages of choice ready, and peanuts are optional but encouraged! Gotta have those peanuts! Those things have mostly been a good luck charm for American Mars landings. -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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Jan 29 2021, 03:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
The Perseverance Landing Press Kit has been posted here.
The Curiosity/MSL landing press kit was outstanding, full of detailed discussions, but not as challenging as a scientific paper. It was my mainstay until Emily Lakdawalla's book came out. This press kit at first glance seems sketchier, but that might be my late-middle-aged grumpiness talking. And of course, JPL knows better than I do the needs of its target audience. Edit: fixed link to the MSL landing press kit |
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Jan 29 2021, 02:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 10-November 15 Member No.: 7837 |
The NASA EYES EDL sim is just brilliant.
My only crit is the funky displacement in the form of very many massive mounds ( obviously not present at Jezero ) that stream in as we come in for landing, which obfuscate the landing itself. What an incredible thing it is to fling a robot at another planet and have the audacity to land safely on it! edit: Just read Doug's post on the tweaks to be made. I have no doubt it will look just grea! -------------------- |
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Jan 30 2021, 04:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 291 Joined: 29-December 05 From: Ottawa, ON Member No.: 624 |
I just retired on December 1st. I know how I'm going to spend all my free time on landing day!
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Feb 5 2021, 08:09 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Per Mike's suggestion posts concerning penetrator probes/smart balance masses have been moved to a new topic.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 5 2021, 03:48 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Feb 8 2021, 10:29 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 14-January 07 From: France Member No.: 1602 |
Traditions, traditions.
For Spirit and Oppy's arrival, I bought a brand new computer and screen. For Curiosity's arrival, I bought a brand new computer and a bigger screen. I write today on a new computer with a huge screen! Many thanks to JPL for the great adventures over the years, and for providing me with the opportunity once per decade to negociate with a higher authority * the purchase of new electronic equipment. I've got two kilos of Mars bars at the ready and a jar of peanuts (for the immediate apéro after safe landing) and I let my fingernails grow since last christmas to nibble on during the next seven minutes of terror. I guess I'm about all set! Go Perseverance, safe journey and safe landing! * My wife |
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Feb 9 2021, 12:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
A useful blog post by Emily Lakdawalla @elakdawalla: "How Do I Watch the Perseverance Landing?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/47214292 |
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Feb 15 2021, 01:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 7-January 13 Member No.: 6834 |
The Eyes on the Solar System team have still got a few tweaks to make - but their EDL experience is up and live. Unlike with MSL when you had to download and install it - it's now a WebGL thing...... https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/ Will this event be implemented in the actual NASA's Eyes software before the landing date though ? On my version, Mars 2020 still "lands" on Mars in one piece.
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Feb 15 2021, 03:17 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Regular ‘Eyes’ is being phased out. It’s >10 years old and in a world of smartphones, tablets and chrome books....increasingly unusable for a majority of people. The WebGL experience is where to go for EDL. The full ‘Eyes...’ experience will eventually all be in WebGL. I doubt they’ll have the resources to transfer EDL back to the old platform.
Ive not been with the Eyes team for over half a decade, and we had started trying to get off the dependence on Unity for a while even then. That MSL EDL was a very ugly hack in original “Eyes” and maintaining it has been a nightmare. |
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