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Phoenix Lander from oribt!!!!!
Well its time for perjoratives, unbeleivable! You can see landing
plume impingement on the surface (looks like it came it from lower left, and what looks like the heatsheild/impact area lower left) Yesssir..........Doc http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...lor-browse.jpg |
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wrote: Well its time for perjoratives, unbeleivable! You can see landing plume impingement on the surface (looks like it came it from lower left, and what looks like the heatsheild/impact area lower left) Yesssir..........Doc http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...lor-browse.jpg Did you see the crater shot yet?: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images...9_9020_cut.jpg (article he http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-descent.php ) That is a mighty good-sized crater (it's around twenty kilometers beyond where the lander came down at, and is around 10 km in diameter). Should have run a MER into that thing's interior. Has anyone collated the horizon glint photo taken from the surface with the backshield or parachute position on the color photo you linked to? Even minus the descent photography from Phoenix itself, it sure didn't take long for them to locate it on the surface, did it? Pat |
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On May 27, 7:19*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote: Well its time for perjoratives, unbeleivable! *You can see landing plume impingement on the surface (looks like it came it from lower left, and what looks like the heatsheild/impact area lower left) Yesssir..........Doc * *http:// www.nasa.gov/images/content/230826main_lander-topviewcolor-bro... Did you see the crater shot yet?:http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/ 2008/details/cut/PSP_008579_9020... (article hehttp:// hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-descent.php) That is a mighty good- sized crater (it's around twenty kilometers beyond where the lander came down at, and is around 10 km in diameter). Should have run a MER into that thing's interior. Has anyone collated the horizon glint photo taken from the surface with the backshield or parachute position on the color photo you linked to? Even minus the descent photography from Phoenix itself, it sure didn't take long for them to locate it on the surface, did it? PatThe crater shot is one of the most incredible shots I've seen in the history of exploration.* Just, just just..........* I'm not sure if they have ID'd the glint yet but soon come, soon come.* What I found is interesting is that in the parachute pic the chute still looks reefed for what I recall is supersonic flight. (looks like a inverted teardrop, certinaly not domelike open condition)* You can see this better in the higher contrast version of the same shot.* If thats the case they caught the lander in the reefed condtion in a already small time window.* What do you think the surface disturbance of the area around the lander can tell us about landing and surface* makeup?..................... WOOOOOHOOOOO...................Doc |
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wrote: just just.......... I'm not sure if they have ID'd the glint yet but soon come, soon come. This looks a _lot_ like the backshield: http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=509&cID=8 I wonder if that ridge in the distance is the rim of the crater in the descent photo? This is the first Mars terrain from any of the five landers that looks very markedly different from the rest; this area may not be very exciting to look at, but a rover would have a very easy time transversing this terrain, as you could tell it to drive quite a distance in any direction you wanted without worrying about it running into (or falling off of) anything. I think the rovers have spoiled me; I want Phoenix to go up the rim of that big crater and peek into it. :-) Pat |
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On May 27, 8:44*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote: just just.......... *I'm not sure if they have ID'd the glint yet but soon come, soon come. This looks a _lot_ like the backshield:http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/ images.php?gID=509&cID=8 I wonder if that ridge in the distance is the rim of the crater in the descent photo? This is the first Mars terrain from any of the five landers that looks very markedly different from the rest; this area may not be very exciting to look at, but a rover would have a very easy time transversing this terrain, as you could tell it to drive quite a distance in any direction you wanted without worrying about it running into (or falling off of) anything. I think the rovers have spoiled me; I want Phoenix to go up the rim of that big crater and peek into it. :-) PatI agree it's going to take a while to get excited by a trench.* That lack of scenery change will bore a lot of folks!* The microscope should be somewhat of a replacement.* I wonder if the tundra surface is like ours here on earth.* It does look like the landing pads went in some, and that crustal fracturing around the pad may inidicate that it may not be all that supportive.* My coin is with the distant mtns being the crater rim that framed the* pic of Phoenix coming in...........Doc |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message news:Ma6dnZibqviSNqHVnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@northdakotat elephone... I think the rovers have spoiled me; I want Phoenix to go up the rim of that big crater and peek into it. :-) Well, if they hadn't released the pressurant, at the end of 90 days they coulda cranked those nozzles up and shifted the thing- oh, at least a foot. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message ... "Pat Flannery" wrote in message news:Ma6dnZibqviSNqHVnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@northdakotat elephone... I think the rovers have spoiled me; I want Phoenix to go up the rim of that big crater and peek into it. :-) Well, if they hadn't released the pressurant, at the end of 90 days they coulda cranked those nozzles up and shifted the thing- oh, at least a foot. You sure that the propellant will stay liquid in this case? Jeff -- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein |
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