MRO arrives at Mars

Just watched it in NASA tv.

Wonderful.

jacob

jacob navia wrote in news:4411fc0f$0$18320
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Just watched it in NASA tv.

Wonderful.

Looks like the Great Galactic Ghoul is still on a diet.

Now for a few months of aerobraking to circularize the orbit,
and MRO can start looking for Martians and lost dogs.

--Damon

Damon Hill wrote in
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jacob navia wrote in news:4411fc0f$0$18320
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Just watched it in NASA tv.

Wonderful.

Looks like the Great Galactic Ghoul is still on a diet.

Now for a few months of aerobraking to circularize the orbit,
and MRO can start looking for Martians and lost dogs.

--Damon


Hopefully we will see more than that (especially the MER rovers and MPL).
Just got home from my shift today and even after doing this before a few
times (MGS, Odyssey, and the two 98 missions), it still was great!!! I
don't regularly post, but love to brag when something I worked on does
its job (member of the LM prop team). The burn was perfectly nominal
(best I've seen) and we are ready for some real science in about 6
months. Wasn't allowed to say on the net, but wanted to say" The MOI 6
pack (6 thrusters) sure made some gas today!".

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:38:42 -0600, Damon Hill
wrote:

jacob navia wrote in news:4411fc0f$0$18320
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Just watched it in NASA tv.

Wonderful.

Looks like the Great Galactic Ghoul is still on a diet.

Now for a few months of aerobraking to circularize the orbit,
and MRO can start looking for Martians and lost dogs.

As the camera is the best yet to get to Mars will it be photographing
the 'face'. :-)

--

Christopher

Christopher wrote in
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:38:42 -0600, Damon Hill
wrote:

Now for a few months of aerobraking to circularize the orbit,
and MRO can start looking for Martians and lost dogs.

As the camera is the best yet to get to Mars will it be photographing
the 'face'. :-)

Already photographed by existing orbiters in sufficient detail
to show that it's anything but a face; just another rock formation.
I'd rather see high resolution imaging of existing landers,
especially the Beagle and MPO, to determine what happened to them.
MRO's greatest value may be as a data relay for future rovers.

--Damon

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:25:11 -0600, Damon Hill
wrote:

I'd rather see high resolution imaging of existing landers,
especially the Beagle and MPO, to determine what happened to them.
MRO's greatest value may be as a data relay for future rovers.

But, is the MROs' camera sensitive enough to photograph lander
fragments? :-O

Len Lekx wrote in
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:25:11 -0600, Damon Hill
wrote:

I'd rather see high resolution imaging of existing landers,
especially the Beagle and MPO, to determine what happened
to them. MRO's greatest value may be as a data relay for
future rovers.

But, is the MROs' camera sensitive enough to photograph
lander

If it can't resolve an intact lander, that might resolve the
question. (Meant to say MPL, not MPO.)

--Damon

In article ,
Len Lekx wrote:
I'd rather see high resolution imaging of existing landers,
especially the Beagle and [MPL], to determine what happened to them...

But, is the MROs' camera sensitive enough to photograph lander
fragments? :-O

If memory serves, it has several times the resolution of MOC (aboard MGS),
which is what's been getting the best pictures to date.

*However*, the big problem with imaging the remains of MPL or Beagle 2 is
not camera resolution, but *finding* the remains, bearing in mind that in
both cases, the uncertainty of location is many kilometers. It's very
difficult to search such large areas with high-resolution cameras, which
necessarily have pretty narrow fields of view.

(In both cases, there are tentative locations based on a tiny spot or two
that looks roughly like what you'd expect to see at a lander site, but
those tentative locations could easily be wrong.)

As I recall, there is also a problem in that MPL's landing area will be in
polar winter -- i.e., dark -- by the time MRO finishes aerobraking, so
there will be a year or so's delay in getting MRO images of the area.
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In article 36,
attbi netnews wrote:
...love to brag when something I worked on does
its job (member of the LM prop team). The burn was perfectly nominal
(best I've seen)...

What's the initial orbit like? The press releases are short of numbers,
and my PDF reader has trouble with the arrival-presskit file.
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