quote:Op zaterdag 11 maart 2006 12:31 schreef Marvin-THE-MARTiAN het volgende:
*Jee* Hogere resolutie images/ gedetaileerdere bodem analyse/ meer info omtrendt mog. aanwezigheid water/ grotere data transfer-rate
tevens verkapte topic kickquote:Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter In Orbit
by Staff Writers // Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2006
[...] 350-million-mile journey - [...] achieve[d] a proper orbit.
[...]
Before the MRO can begin its two-year science mission, however, it must spend nearly seven more months adjusting its instruments and its orbit, using an experimental process called aerobraking.
As explained by Graf, the spacecraft's initial capture by Martian gravity has placed it into an elongated, 35-hour orbit. Then, the spacecraft will use hundreds of guided dips into the upper Martian atmosphere. The maneuvers will apply atmospheric drag to slow the MRO - but not overheat it - and reshape its orbit into a nearly circular, two-hour loop at an altitude of 200 miles (321 kilometers).
This strategy allowed NASA to save 500 kilograms (1,100 lbs.) at launch, but "aerobraking is like a high-wire act in open air," Graf said. The Martian atmosphere can swell rapidly, "so we need to monitor it closely to keep the orbiter at an altitude that is effective and safe."
The orbiter is carrying six instruments to study Mars from its subsurface geology to its high thin cloudtops. They include the most powerful telescopic camera ever sent to another planet - it can image rocks the size of a small desk. Those instruments will allow the spacecraft to "return as much information as all previous Mars missions combined," said Michael Meyer, the orbiter's chief scientist.[...]
In addition to the camera, the orbiter carries an advanced mineral mapping instrument called PRISM, which can handle 600 channels of spectrographic information and can identify water-related deposits in areas as small as a baseball infield. Its 30-foot radar antenna will probe for ice and water buried as deep as a half-mile below the surface. Its weather camera will monitor the entire planet daily, and its infrared Climate Sounder will monitor atmospheric temperatures and the movement of water vapor.
In all, the MRO represents an extension of all of NASA's planetary exploration capabilities, including - after it finishes its science mission - communications relay. "The instrumentation is unprecedented," Meyer said, adding that the orbiter can transmit data approximately 10 times faster than any previous Mars craft, and it is expected to return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.
[...]
"We're hoping we can actually image the rovers," he added.
Die hebben ze al gevondenquote:Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 10:00 schreef speknek het volgende:
Woah . De rovers, zijn die niet ongeveer de grootte van een desk? Zal wel niet heel duidelijk worden dan, maar toch cool. Misschien toch nog een fotootje van de Beagle 2 ook .
Met de Mars global surveyor hebben ze iets gezien dat *vermoedelijk* de crashland-site van beagle 2 is. Het ding is heel, maar hij is ongelukkig in een kratertje terecht gekomen. Met MRO zullen ze hem duidelijk kunnen zienquote:
Ben benieuwd naar de testfoto'squote:New Mars Orbiter Ready for Action
Scientists and engineers are ready to start testing the image-taking
skills of the newest spacecraft to swing into orbit around Mars.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is in great shape after
its arrival at the planet on March 10. It is now being readied to produce
its first images of Mars this week—using the most powerful telescope
camera ever sent to another planet.
The University of Arizona’s super-powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE)
camera is scheduled to relay first test shots of Mars on March 23 to the
HiRISE Operations Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Lees verder......
super CRASHquote:Op zaterdag 25 maart 2006 22:43 schreef -CRASH- het volgende:
NASA's New Mars Orbiter Returns Test Images
2x img
Ik was het al bijna weer vergetenquote:Op zondag 26 maart 2006 21:33 schreef Marvin-THE-MARTiAN het volgende:
[..]
super CRASH
Ik was ze al ergens tegengekomen, maar had nog niet de tijd gehad om ze te posten!! toppie
En wij krijgen maar 2 foto's te zienquote:More than 25 gigabits of imaging data, enough to nearly fill five CD-ROMs,
were received through NASA's Deep Space Network station at Canberra,
Australia, and sent to JPL.
They were made available to the camera teams at the University of Arizona
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, Calif.
Dan ben je niet de enigequote:Op maandag 14 augustus 2006 13:22 schreef AstroNova het volgende:
Ik wacht nog steeds op de echte foto's Ik vind deze foto's echt nog niet spectaculair
Interessant Nederlands artikeltje over de sonde
Views of HiRISE Imagesquote:MRO Successfully Concludes Aerobraking 30-08-2006
Nearly six months after it entered orbit, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has concluded its aerobraking phase. The spacecraft had been dipping in and out of the red planet's atmosphere to adjust its orbit. On August 30, 2006, during its 445th orbit, the spacecraft fired its intermediate thrusters to raise the low point of its orbit and stop dipping into the atmosphere.
The six-minute engine burn began at 10:36 a.m. (PST), altering the spacecraft's course so that its periapsis (the closest it comes to the planet) is about 210 kilometers (130 miles) above the planet, well above the atmosphere.
"Aerobraking has changed the course of the spacecraft from just over 35 hours per orbit to just under two hours per orbit and it has saved us roughly 600 kilograms of fuel," said Dan Johnston, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Deputy Mission Manager. "Getting out of aerobraking was a phenomenal moment and everyone on the flight teams has done a fantastic job to get us where we need to be for science acquisition."
The next step for the spacecraft will be two additional orbit adjustments to put the orbiter in the ideal path to begin gathering the most detailed scientific data yet from the red planet. The mission's main science observations are scheduled to begin in November, after a period of transitional deployments and tests, then three weeks of intermittent communications while Mars passes nearly behind the sun.
Het wordt ook de hoogste tijdquote:NASA Craft Settles Into Mars Orbit
The most powerful spacecraft ever sent to Mars
has settled into a nearly circular orbit,
a move that allows scientists to begin studying the
planet in unprecedented detail, NASA said Tuesday.
Als ze maar niet vergeten het lenskapje eraf te halenquote:Op woensdag 27 september 2006 18:30 schreef AstroNova het volgende:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0609/26mrohirise/
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