Author Topic: LIVE: MSL Curiosity Post Landing SOL 1 onwards Update Thread (Read 1092890 times)

Oberon_Command · « **Reply #40 on:** 08/07/2012 08:12 pm »

Quote from: rdale on 08/07/2012 08:09 pm

Quote from: Star One on 08/07/2012 08:05 pm
It's a slight shame that Curiosity in its landing has rather littered up the Martian landscape in the area with various bits of hardware, especially the Sky Crane with its fuel.

That shame diminishes when you remember how large Mars is in comparison to the "litter" area.

Diminishes, yes. Extinguishes, no.

ugordan · « **Reply #41 on:** 08/07/2012 08:14 pm »

This concern about Mars' environment warms my heart and almost makes me forget how people here on Earth litter without even giving it a second thought. But since this is Mars, we really *should* keep it clean!

Seriously, I don't understand where this is coming from. Things like "you're sending *plutonium* to Mars? What if the thing crashes!?!?!"

Jim · « **Reply #42 on:** 08/07/2012 08:16 pm »

Name an early exploration landing that didn't litter. That even includes new continents and lands on earth.

Anyways, all the MSL "litter" is minor compared to MSL itself, which will be eventually abandoned and it contains plutonium.

Pheogh · « **Reply #43 on:** 08/07/2012 08:17 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 08/07/2012 05:48 pm

Mast cam might be able to spot some of the hardware if the topography is right.

Mast cam images will be tomorrow. Probably not of any terrain.

Sure would have saved a whole lot of people headaches if some smart programmer had designed a live web based activity calendar for Curiosity. Surface ops must have a calendar of some kind they are working from...? Beuller?

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #44 on:** 08/07/2012 08:42 pm »

Lots of non updates on a live update thread. Thread trimmed. Use the other threads.

Updates go on Update threads. It's not rocket science

MahFL · « **Reply #45 on:** 08/07/2012 11:15 pm »

hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2012/details/cut/hardware-longview.tif

The tif is now available, it had to be re-uploaded.

marsman2020 · « **Reply #46 on:** 08/08/2012 12:28 am »

A bunch more image data from Sol 0 has been posted on the raw images website - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0 - including the full resolution versions of some of the "covers closed" HazCam images that we all saw as downsampled versions right when the rover landed.

I now have a much better idea of how much dust was on my covers before they opened.

robertross · « **Reply #47 on:** 08/08/2012 12:53 am »

Quote from: marsman2020 on 08/08/2012 12:28 am

A bunch more image data from Sol 0 has been posted on the raw images website - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0 - including the full resolution versions of some of the "covers closed" HazCam images that we all saw as downsampled versions right when the rover landed.

I now have a much better idea of how much dust was on my covers before they opened.

So many (if not everyone) here are so happy you put those covers on!

Must give you that warm fuzzy feeling

Rocket Science · « **Reply #48 on:** 08/08/2012 01:02 am »

Best laugh I had all day… 20:10

Q: What could be responsible for the walnut sized little pieces of rocks?

A: Squirrels… Funny Ken

spectre9 · « **Reply #49 on:** 08/08/2012 01:22 am »

Incredibly cool that they were able to spot all the EDL hardware so quickly.

Pictures are up now.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/

Robert Thompson · « **Reply #50 on:** 08/08/2012 01:42 am »

Quote from: Herb Schaltegger on 08/07/2012 06:08 pm

"away from the science."

Gale Crater was formed at least in part by wind. Hopefully aerosolized hydrazine was not transported to instruments.

kevin-rf · « **Reply #51 on:** 08/08/2012 01:49 am »

Did I miss it, or hasn't anyone posted that MRO also managed to capture the heat shield dropping away from MSL?

http://www.uahirise.org/images/2012/details/cut/msl_parachute_heatshield.jpg

FOXP2 · « **Reply #52 on:** 08/08/2012 03:58 am »

Quote from: Hernalt on 08/08/2012 01:42 am

Quote from: Herb Schaltegger on 08/07/2012 06:08 pm
"away from the science."
Gale Crater was formed at least in part by wind. Hopefully aerosolized hydrazine was not transported to instruments.

I'm confused, was the sky-crane, once it flies off, not designed to burn its tanks dry?

Bogeyman · « **Reply #53 on:** 08/08/2012 07:19 am »

Quote from: Jorge on 08/08/2012 04:05 am

No, the flyaway burn was fixed duration, not to depletion.

Could it have happened that the tank content exploded upon impact?

ugordan · « **Reply #54 on:** 08/08/2012 07:34 am »

Quote from: Bogeyman on 08/08/2012 07:19 am

Could it have happened that the tank content exploded upon impact?

Over at UMSF, at least one apparently secondary impact pointing back to the descent stage impact was identified in the HiRISE image. This suggests that at least some components of the descent stage didn't go peacefully. What's more, the distance the secondary piece travelled is more than the distance to the rover!

ugordan · « **Reply #55 on:** 08/08/2012 07:37 am »

Quote from: marsman2020 on 08/08/2012 12:28 am

A bunch more image data from Sol 0 has been posted on the raw images website - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0 - including the full resolution versions of some of the "covers closed" HazCam images that we all saw as downsampled versions right when the rover landed.

Also one MARDI full resolution frame was downlinked - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00000/mrdi/0000MD9999000072E1_DXXX.jpg