Curiosity MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) - Atlas V 541 - Canaveral SLC-41 - 26.11.2011

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Curiosity готовится к высадке на Марс  

Один из самых передовых марсоходов НАСА Curiosity приземлится на Красной планете 6 августа, сообщает космическое агентство США. Процесс приближения и посадки будет самым сложным для ученых НАСА в связи с 14-минутной задержкой в видеосвязи. Если посадка пройдет удачно, Curiosity станет седьмым космическим аппаратом США, высадившимся на Марсе.
 Подробности – в  видеорепортаже : http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/content/mars-rover-curiosity/1454770.html

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http://vk.com/video-18940667_163558358

[ronatu]

10:31 pm pacific = 1:31 am eastern (night) +9 to get Moscow time ~10:31 Moscow Sunday morning

Am I right?

Нет, утро понедельника, если всё ОК, т.е. принято сразу с  Марс Одиссей то будет 5:31 UTC

Ошибся я, простите мне ребята.... :oops:
ПОСАДКА В РУССКИЙ ПОНЕДЕЛЬНИК[/size]

[m-s Gelezniak]

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ПОСАДКА В РУССКИЙ ПОНЕДЕЛЬНИК[/size]

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КРАНТЫ?[/size]
Тортики [/size]
Тортики
Тортики...[/size]
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[Space Alien]

Осталось ровно 24 часа до посадки!!!

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/120804status/

Curiosity rover on track for daring descent to Mars[/size]
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: August 4, 2012

The Mars Science Laboratory rover, still attached to its drum-shaped interplanetary cruise stage, closed in on the red planet Saturday, steadily accelerating under the increasing tug of the planet's gravity as it streaked toward a precisely targeted plunge into the martian atmosphere overnight Sunday for a high-stakes descent to the surface.


The Curiosity rover, on the move in Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
 
"The spacecraft and ground systems are all healthy and performing as expected," said MSL mission manager Arthur Amador. "The spacecraft is now in the EDL (entry, descent and landing) approach configuration, in our final approach orientation, pointing our medium gain antenna within a degree of the Earth. We've got a strong telecom signal, receiving data at 2,000 bits per second.

"The power subsystem is healthy, our rover batteries are charged to 100 percent. The thermal and propulsion systems are nominal with stable temperatures and pressures and the DSN (Deep Space Network) continues to perform well, tracking the spacecraft continuously and conducting two differential ranging passes per day."

As of Saturday morning, the Mars Science Laboratory was just 2.8 million miles from Mars after logging nearly 350 million miles since launch from Cape Canaveral last November. Flight controllers decided Friday the spacecraft's path toward Mars was accurate enough to forego a pre-planned trajectory correction maneuver.

"We're now right on target to fly through the eye of a needle, that is, our target at the top of the Mars atmosphere," said Amador. "The target is a box that's 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) by 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) in dimension. And we're flying right through it."

A high-precision atmospheric entry is just the first step in a complex, high-speed series of events designed to get the nuclear-powered Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity safely to its landing ellipse on the floor of Gale Crater, within easy roving distance of a 3-mile-high mound of layered rock that represents a record of the red planet's enigmatic history.

Equipped with a robot arm, a drill, sample scoop, state-of-the-art instruments and a suite of cameras, Curiosity is the most sophisticated robotic lander ever sent to another planet. Over the course of a planned two-year mission, the rover will search for carbon compounds, one of the key building blocks of life as it is known on Earth, and assess whether habitable environments ever existed, or still exist, on the red planet.

"This is a very complicated vehicle, it's way more complicated than (previous Mars rovers) or other vehicles we've flown in the past, and so it's going to take us a while to first check it out and then get into the science ... that everybody wants to do," said Richard Cook, MSL deputy project manager.

"We're going to spend almost the entire month of August really checking out the vehicle, getting the first images. We'll obviously be getting science data during that but we'll also be doing engineering checkouts of the instruments, of the sampling system, changing flight software, doing other things. Hopefully by early September we'll be at the point where we can do our first drive and have the vehicle begin to move around a little bit."

But first, it has to get there.

Tipping the scales at one ton, Curiosity is the largest rover ever sent to Mars and it will hit the upper atmosphere at a blistering 13,200 mph. Protected by a massive insulating heat shield, the spacecraft's computer will fire rocket thrusters to adjust its lift during the hypersonic phase of the descent, dipping or climbing as required and flying through broad S-turns to bleed off speed while keeping the craft on course for a pinpoint landing.

After slowing to around 1,000 mph, a huge supersonic parachute will deploy, the heat shield will be jettisoned and a sophisticated radar altimeter will begin sounding the surface. After slowing to less than 200 mph, the parachute will be jettisoned and Curiosity, bolted to the belly of a rocket-powered descent stage, will fall free for the final drop to the surface.

Unlike past landers, Curiosity's jet pack does not have legs. Instead, it will act like a flying crane, lowering the rover directly to the surface on the end of a 25-foot-long bridle as the "sky crane" slowly descends. When the flight computer senses "weight on wheels," the bridle will be cut and Curiosity will be ready for initial tests and checkout.

Touchdown is expected at 1:17 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) Monday, but it will take radio signals confirming the event 13.8 minutes to cross the 154-million-mile gulf between Earth and Mars. That translates to 1:31 a.m. "Earth-received time."

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will be relying on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to relay entry, descent and landing telemetry back to Earth and to confirm a successful touchdown. If Odyssey has problems, or if any issues crop up with Curiosity's transmitter, it could take several hours for that long-awaited confirmation to arrive.

Given the complexity of the entry, descent and landing sequence -- and the mission's $2.5 billion price tag -- NASA managers and engineers are understandably anxious.

"Like all missions, MSL started with something that was pretty scary and pretty risky and that was called launch," said Doug McCuistion, director of Mars exploration at NASA Headquarters. "Unlike most missions, we haven't finished the scary and risky stuff yet. MSL still has to put Curiosity on the surface after it goes through the atmosphere, our 'seven minutes of terror,' which you'll continue to hear about.

"So can we do this? Yeah, I think we can do this. I'm confident. The team's done an amazing job, we have the A-plus team on this. They've done everything possible to ensure success, but that risk still exists, it's going to be tough. If it's not successful, we're going to learn. ... We'll pick ourselves up, we'll dust ourselves off, we'll look at this and we'll do it again. This will not be the end."

The spacecraft's computer began executing EDL programming Monday and "our trajectory inbound to Mars has been right down the pipe, so we canceled last night's opportunity to perform our fifth trajectory correction maneuver," said Amador.

"During the hours that we have left here before the landing, the flight team will remain vigilant, monitoring and assessing the health of the spacecraft and tracking its trajectory and preparing any necessary changes to guidance and entry parameters. We have several opportunities to make final parameter updates, one today and two additional opportunities tomorrow if we need them.

"We have one more significant activity to perform with the spacecraft late tonight and that's to command the final enable and activation of the contingency software on our backup computer," Amador said. "The team's confident and thrilled to be finally arriving at Mars. We're reminding ourselves to breathe every so often."[/size]

[Yurdel]

Пожелания удачной посадки команде MSL от школьников Саха-Якутии - участников проекта "Cansat в Саха-Якутии". Go MSL!

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JPL's Mission Support Area (MSA), shown in this panorama, will be the hub of activity on Aug. 5 as mission team members monitor the careful and intricate entry, descent and landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI)
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149748421

What is SAM?
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149564391

'Top Gun' Tests Radar for Mars
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149779071

Curiosity's Hazard Cameras Ready for Action
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149754761

Popping the Lid off Curiosity's Hazard Cameras
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149754671

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Flying Over Mars

This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet. The video is slowed down as the orbiter approaches the landing site for better viewing. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will capture data during Curiosity's entry, descent and landing for later playback to Earth. Its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera will attempt to take an image of Curiosity as it descends to the surface (green).

HiRISE is one of six instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the orbiter's HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149830151

Phoning Home - Communicating from Mars
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149821691

Curiosity Speaks
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149830441

Communicating with Curiosity
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149830651

Great Convergence of Spacecraft around Mars
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=149830861

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Deputy Administrator and Science Guy

Bill Nye, known as the Science Guy, takes a photograph of himself with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at the Planetary Society's 2012 Planetfest on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif.

Garver is visiting Pasadena, home of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ahead of Curiosity's landing on Mars, scheduled for 1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6, 2012. Curiosity is designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support life.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2325.html

[Global Ural]

Пожелания удачной посадки команде MSL от школьников Саха-Якутии - участников проекта "Cansat в Саха-Якутии". Go MSL!

у меня в фантастической рассказе который я начал в 2005 году Якутск (будущего) указан столицей научных мыслей, щас про Ефремова как раз смотрел и тот как он предсказал залежи алмазов в Якутии, удачи вашим ребятам и вам)

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html

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

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Radiation Levels on the Way to Mars

This graphic shows the flux of radiation detected by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory on the trip from Earth to Mars from December 2011 to July 2012. The spikes in radiation levels occurred in February, March and late May of 2012 because of large solar energetic particle events caused by giant flares on the sun.

The data were obtained by the Radiation Assessment Detector on Curiosity. The radiation levels are measured in units of flux or particles per square centimeter per second per steradian. The MSL spacecraft structure (which includes the backshell and heatshield) provides significant shielding from the deep space radiation environment, reducing significantly the particle flux observed by the Radiation Assessment Detector.

Zooming in on the solar energetic particle event in March, a red line shows the particle flux observed by the Solar Isotope Spectrometer instrument on NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer. ACE orbits the L1 libration point, which is a point of Earth-sun gravitational equilibrium about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth and 92.27 million miles (148.5 million kilometers) from the sun. In March, the ACE spacecraft was roughly aligned with MSL in terms of the path the solar particles took from the sun, thus providing a good estimate of the radiation levels outside of MSL's shielding. The measurements from the Solar Isotope Spectrometer are several orders of magnitude greater than those seen by MSL's Radiation Assessment Detector inside the capsule.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/hassler04a.html

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Ребят через сколько первые фотографии с поверхности Марса будут от марсохода по мск.времени?

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Ребят через сколько первые фотографии с поверхности Марса будут от марсохода по мск.времени?

Если все пойдет по плану, первые ч-б фотографии низкого разрешения будут сделаны через несколько минут после посадки, т.е. до 10:00 ЛМВ. Понятно, что еще какое-то время потребуется для их передачи на Землю и публикации в интернете Вероятно, ближе к 11-12 часам моск. времени.

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=975251#975251

Raw Images

Check back here for Curiosity's first images.

All of the raw images Curiosity sends back from Mars will be located here in the future.

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

[Yurdel]

у меня в фантастической рассказе который я начал в 2005 году Якутск (будущего) указан столицей научных мыслей, щас про Ефремова как раз смотрел и тот как он предсказал залежи алмазов в Якутии, удачи вашим ребятам и вам)

Спасибо, Global Ural!
  Спасибо большое НИИЯФовцам и Мемориальному музею космонавтики г.Москвы за организацию проекта Casnat в России!
  Завтра наши дети будут наблюдать за трансляцией посадки, всем удачи, в особенности, Любопытному!

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Watch live Mars Express tracking NASA Mars landing
 
Watch a live event from ESA's European Space Operations Centre on 6 August when Mars Express tracks the arrival of NASA's Curiosity rover at the Red Planet. Webcast runs 06:30 to about 08:30 CEST.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMUPUSX55H_0.html

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http://phys.org/news/2012-08-curiosity-daredevil-stunt.html

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Марс уже близко, все системы работают хорошо.

Curiosity's Daily Update: Curiosity Closes in on its New 'Home'

Aug. 4: Curiosity Closes in on its New 'Home'
With Mars looming ever larger in front of it, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft and its Curiosity rover are in the final stages of preparing for entry, descent and landing on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m. PDT Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6). Curiosity remains in good health with all systems operating as expected. Today, the flight team uplinked and confirmed commands to make minor corrections to the spacecraft's navigation reference point parameters. This afternoon, as part of the onboard sequence of autonomous activities leading to the landing, catalyst bed heaters are being turned on to prepare the eight Mars Lander Engines that are part of MSL's descent propulsion system. As of 2:25 p.m. PDT (5:25 p.m. EDT), MSL was approximately 261,000 miles (420,039 kilometers) from Mars, closing in at a little more than 8,000 mph (about 3,600 meters per second).

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1282

[Старый]

 

Столько ожиданий. Обидно будет если чуда навернётся.