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Feb 8 2021, 03:04 PM
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For those who haven't already seen, there is excellent work independently tracking and predicting the trajectory of Tianwen-1 by radio amateurs (using that word only technically, since they are very much pros).
The latest is predicting orbital insertion at 8 seconds before 1200 UTC on Wednesday 10 February, with a 386 km periapsis - burn starts a few minutes before that if you, like me, are planning your peanut consumption carefully this week. Plenty of details to be found at these links (even a GMAT script and Jupyter notebook, and some doppler data, for the astrodynamically inclined). https://destevez.net/tag/tianwen/ Daniel Estévez recent twitter thread with MOI images Scott Tilley recent twitter thread |
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Mar 4 2021, 02:43 AM
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Is the low sun angle why the polar cap isn't bright white like we see in other images (both Hubble and other orbiters?) Or are others "enhanced" and this one is not?
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Mar 4 2021, 05:59 AM
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Is the low sun angle why the polar cap isn't bright white like we see in other images (both Hubble and other orbiters?) Pretty typical for this season. See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980924.html for example. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Greenish Tianwen-1 At Mars Feb 8 2021, 03:04 PM
Huguet Daniel Estévez (Twitter)
@ea4gpz
"Acqusition ... Feb 10 2021, 01:26 PM
Greenish Orbital insertion confirmed. CASC says landing att... Feb 10 2021, 01:38 PM
MERovingian And another one! Mars is a spoiled planet... Feb 10 2021, 02:05 PM
Huguet Interesting is the enormous numbers of firsts for ... Feb 10 2021, 04:27 PM
nprev This will be the general thread for orbital operat... Feb 10 2021, 04:45 PM
Huguet "At ~13:14:20 UTC #Tianwen-1 switched from Lo... Feb 11 2021, 09:52 AM
Steve G Hopefully, they might be able to get a peek at neg... Feb 11 2021, 12:58 PM
neo56 Amazing video taken by one of Tianwen-1 camera dur... Feb 12 2021, 11:10 AM
rlorenz QUOTE (neo56 @ Feb 12 2021, 06:10 AM) Ama... Feb 12 2021, 11:53 PM
Huguet Congrats CASC,... continue sending every raw foota... Feb 12 2021, 12:21 PM
neo56 I did some quick image processing on screenshots o... Feb 12 2021, 09:27 PM
Antdoghalo Congrats to the Chinese for being number 6 to ente... Feb 12 2021, 10:30 PM
Huguet Wonderfull views of Mars overlapped by tianwen-1, ... Feb 12 2021, 11:07 PM
fredk I couldn't see anywhere by what factor those c... Feb 13 2021, 12:22 AM
Ron Hobbs Planetary Society's Tianwen-1 page has it on V... Feb 14 2021, 04:54 PM
Quetzalcoatl Hello everybody,
Tianwen-1 was now to perform a m... Feb 15 2021, 06:58 PM
Steve5304 QUOTE (Quetzalcoatl @ Feb 15 2021, 07:58 ... Feb 18 2021, 09:26 PM
kenny Tianwen-1's orbit has been adjusted further. ... Mar 2 2021, 09:45 AM
SulliedGoon Will we see orbital pictures from NASA of
the even... Mar 2 2021, 11:09 AM
Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (SulliedGoon @ Mar 2 2021, 12:09 PM... Mar 4 2021, 08:47 AM
mcaplinger QUOTE (Quetzalcoatl @ Mar 4 2021, 12:47 A... Mar 4 2021, 04:16 PM
Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Mar 4 2021, 05:16 PM)... Mar 15 2021, 06:04 PM
Hungry4info LRO has imaged each of the landed Chang'e miss... Mar 2 2021, 12:46 PM
mcaplinger QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Mar 2 2021, 04:46 AM... Mar 2 2021, 04:08 PM
Hungry4info From https://weibo.com/5386897742/K4AVS2zt8?ssl_..... Mar 4 2021, 02:16 AM
JRehling QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Mar 3 2021, 07:43 PM) ... Mar 4 2021, 05:04 PM
Phil Stooke The high resolution image with the small cones on ... Mar 4 2021, 07:44 AM
Huguet New Photos from medium-res camera. Detail of mars ... Mar 26 2021, 11:23 AM
kymani76
Map of Tianwen-1 landing site in Utopia Planitia... Apr 4 2021, 10:59 AM
kymani76
A close-up of the central area.
Once the mappin... Apr 4 2021, 11:01 AM
Art Martin QUOTE (kymani76 @ Apr 4 2021, 04:01 AM)
... Apr 5 2021, 03:40 AM
Phil Stooke Very nice maps! Once we are safely down I wil... Apr 4 2021, 09:37 PM
Antdoghalo There are also a lot of pseudocones and lava wrink... Apr 5 2021, 10:27 AM
john_s Given the size of the landing ellipse, there's... Apr 5 2021, 02:56 PM
djellison Yeah - the landing ellipse is almost certainly lar... Apr 5 2021, 03:18 PM
kymani76 I guess there are many uncertainties, but this map... Apr 5 2021, 08:46 PM
kenny Apollo 12 in 1969 was trying to land close to the ... Apr 19 2021, 04:45 PM
kenny Apollo 12 in 1969 was trying to land close to the ... Apr 19 2021, 07:07 PM
tdemko QUOTE (kenny @ Apr 19 2021, 02:07 PM) Apo... Apr 20 2021, 07:32 PM
Huguet We are entering the week distance window of the es... May 10 2021, 02:31 PM
tolis I don't think the entry module will be "d... May 12 2021, 10:11 AM
Nordren QUOTE (Huguet @ May 10 2021, 05:31 PM) An... May 13 2021, 01:23 PM
Huguet QUOTE (Nordren @ May 13 2021, 10:23 AM) C... May 13 2021, 01:31 PM
Nordren QUOTE (Huguet @ May 13 2021, 04:31 PM) I ... May 13 2021, 01:48 PM
Huguet Indeed not less than 200km at periapsis. Timing fo... May 12 2021, 10:33 AM
Huguet Finally a date, not direct from CAST, but by a sou... May 13 2021, 10:03 AM
Huguet The Zhurong will use the same navigation technolog... May 13 2021, 11:43 AM
stevesliva QUOTE (Huguet @ May 13 2021, 06:43 AM) Th... May 13 2021, 03:15 PM
Huguet QUOTE (stevesliva @ May 13 2021, 12:15 PM... May 13 2021, 03:23 PM
Huguet "Communication before (land) would be handled... May 13 2021, 11:49 AM
ollopa QUOTE (Huguet @ May 13 2021, 01:49 PM) Ne... May 13 2021, 11:13 PM
Phil Stooke Non-Fungible Token - I can't explain it other ... May 13 2021, 11:54 PM
Steve5304 QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 13 2021, 11:54 P... May 15 2021, 02:33 AM
Hungry4info Think of NFT's like ownership rights of artwor... May 14 2021, 12:50 AM
nprev Based on the Twitter feed linked to by Huguet, it ... May 14 2021, 05:07 AM
marsophile Landed Successfully!
https://spaceflightnow.c... May 15 2021, 02:48 AM
Steve5304 I cant find much information on the instrument loa... May 15 2021, 04:30 AM
marsophile QUOTE (Steve5304 @ May 14 2021, 08:30 PM)... May 15 2021, 06:14 AM
nogal QUOTE (Steve5304 @ May 15 2021, 05:30 AM)... May 15 2021, 05:37 PM
Hungry4info Wow! Tianwen-1 observed from a deployed sub-sa... Jan 1 2022, 01:04 AM
Huguet QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Dec 31 2021, 10:04 P... Jan 1 2022, 01:45 PM
Phil Stooke Very cool indeed! The website linked to by An... Jan 1 2022, 02:30 AM
Paolo the Chinese journal Scientia Sinica Technologica h... Mar 12 2022, 09:12 AM
vikingmars QUOTE (Paolo @ Mar 12 2022, 10:12 AM) the... Mar 13 2022, 06:02 AM
Phil Stooke https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/15049059648179814... Mar 18 2022, 10:55 PM
Huguet QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 18 2022, 07:55 P... Mar 22 2022, 10:38 AM
Huguet QUOTE (Huguet @ Mar 22 2022, 07:38 AM) Im... Mar 22 2022, 03:10 PM
vikingmars QUOTE (Huguet @ Mar 22 2022, 04:10 PM) In... Mar 23 2022, 12:18 PM
Huguet QUOTE (vikingmars @ Mar 23 2022, 09:18 AM... Mar 24 2022, 11:15 AM
Phil Stooke Two details, enlarged and contrast-enhanced. I wi... Mar 18 2022, 11:01 PM
Bill Harris That whole HiRISE section is amazing. I look forw... Mar 20 2022, 06:10 AM
Phil Stooke Check out this article:
https://news.sina.com.cn/... Mar 24 2022, 07:16 AM
vikingmars QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 24 2022, 08:16 A... Mar 24 2022, 10:37 AM
Phil Stooke This open-access paper:
https://mdpi-res.com/d_at... Mar 29 2022, 11:48 PM
Bill Harris Nice images, Huguet. I wonder why the ground alo... Mar 30 2022, 01:29 AM
Huguet QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Mar 29 2022, 10:29 P... Mar 31 2022, 04:57 PM
Phil Stooke An update tweeted by Andrew Jones:
https://twitte... May 6 2022, 06:56 PM
Phil Stooke This is the new surface image roughly projected fo... May 6 2022, 07:31 PM
Huguet QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 6 2022, 04:31 PM... May 10 2022, 01:56 PM
Phil Stooke The early rock might have been weathered on the su... May 10 2022, 05:21 PM
Hungry4info Sun Zezhou, chief designer of Tianwen-1, delivered... Jun 20 2022, 03:21 PM
Phil Stooke Here is a good open access paper on rover mapping:... Jun 26 2022, 07:30 AM
vikingmars QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 26 2022, 09:30 A... Jun 27 2022, 07:11 PM
Hungry4info Some new images from Tianwen-1. Jun 29 2022, 12:06 PM
Phil Stooke This tweet from Andrew Jones shows a surface image... Jun 29 2022, 07:45 PM
Huguet QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 29 2022, 04:45 P... Jul 1 2022, 09:26 AM
Bill Harris Interesting! Rather a miniature version of t... Jul 1 2022, 12:02 PM
serpens To me it looks like erosion of an armored dune, or... Jul 2 2022, 09:43 AM
rlorenz QUOTE (serpens @ Jul 2 2022, 05:43 AM) To... Jul 2 2022, 01:51 PM
Bill Harris Likely explanation, rlorenz. The Racetrack playa... Jul 8 2022, 06:09 PM
Phil Stooke How about an alternative to the wind? A crater fo... Jul 8 2022, 07:27 PM
Huguet One thing for shure....
Zhurong Team from casc/cs... Jul 8 2022, 11:01 PM
Hungry4info This is the thread for the orbiter, isn't it? ... Jul 9 2022, 12:33 AM
nprev ADMIN MODE: Noted. The discussion here evolved a b... Jul 9 2022, 08:27 AM
Hungry4info Tianwen-1 has snapped a pic of Phobos.
(source he... Jul 23 2022, 05:24 AM
Phil Stooke http://jdse.bit.edu.cn/sktcxb/cn/article/d....2096... Mar 5 2023, 08:31 AM
Phil Stooke Guo, X., Yan, J.G., Yang, X., Liu, L., Chen, Y.H.,... Mar 6 2023, 08:37 AM![]() ![]() |
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