At the time, we suspected that some problem had occurred which was preventing it from proceeding with the plan, and I made a note to follow up on this when the relevant reports would be published in the #PDSAnalystNotebook .
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Which is exactly the reason we need to share these reports, because they show how hard it is to be successful in space operations. The fact that these crafts over exceed their normal life (like #Curiosity's 10+ year operation or Ingenuity's 52 flights instead of a 5 flight demo) is an attestation of the exceptional engineering that went into the development of these systems, as you say.
Cela faisait un moment que je n'avais pas traité les images de #Curiosity. J'ai laissé mes occupations de côté pour assembler les 77 images constituant cette vue sur la colline Kukenán, un mille-feuille minéral de 150 m de haut.
Envie de parcourir cette mosaïque ? Suivez-moi ! 1/6 #marsrover#NASA#JPL#Mars
Curiosity rover's current workspace imaged on Sol 3887 (July 14, 2023). A processed mosaic of six overlapping Bayer reconstructed left-side MastCam frames covers an area about 2 meters (~6 feet) across. It shows details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's two meter-long robotic arm. A 50 centimeter scalebar has been added (~20 inches).
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #CuriosityRover#Mars#space#curiosity#NASA#BayerReconstructed#ScaleBar
Curiosity rover's latest workspace, imaged on mission Sol 3885 (July 12, 2023). This processed mosaic of six overlapping Bayer reconstructed left-side MastCam frames covers an area about 2 meters (~6 feet) across. It shows details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's two meter-long robotic arm. Scalebar provided.
«A blue hue inches over the horizon illuminating a sea of rocks scattered across the landscape like the scales of a fish. Among the sea, alone in the vastness, a rover sleeps. The time is now 9:25, in a "time zone" defined for itself. The waking rover receives instructions from a tiny speck of light, far away and slowly creeping towards the other side of the sun. »
«Whether pondering the vastness of an ocean around 400 BC, or the geologic and climate history of a neighbouring planet in present day, curiosity drives us to explore and learn.»
#Curiosity sailing in the vastness of another world, projecting the true explorer's spirit of its team members.
When I first visited Salisbury Cathedral in 2011, there was a challenge there to find some hidden things and curiosities.
One of them was to look out for a monkey throwing apples.
Since then, every time I visit this great cathedral, I take a look at this monkey!
When I first visited Salisbury Cathedral in 2011, there was a challenge there to find some hidden things and curiosities.
One of them was to look out for a monkey throwing apples.
Since then, every time I visit this great cathedral, I take a look at this monkey!
#Curiosity ran out of instructions and had no work to do, due to some issues with the #DSN, #NASA's Deep Space Network. For just a little while, that is.
The image below was captured a few sols earlier. It reminds me of the Acheron Fin in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy novels, where the biomedical team developed a longevity treatment; only, it is thousands of times smaller.
Curiosity rover's workspace, on mission Sol 3880 (July 6, 2023). A processed mosaic of six overlapping Bayer reconstructed left-side MastCam frames, it covers an area about 2 meters (~6 feet) across, and features details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's two meter-long robotic arm. A 50 centimeter scalebar has been added (~20 inches).
My living room as an antenna test chamber 😂 Well, it was a rainy day, couldn’t set it up outside.
I’m testing a 2.4GHz dish, meant for WiFi links, but as it turns out, it has a decent match at 1420MHz so it’s actually usable as a Hydrogen Line radio telescope antenna.
Traversing in front of it, you can see its impedance (S11 for the experts) change. This happens because I’m affecting its near field. In human understandable terms: being sufficiently close to the antenna affects how it performs.
With my newly acquired LNA, this will likely end up being a much more portable Hydrogen Line radio telescope, I have high expectations 😃
"Some guy who builds his own radio #telescope to satisfy his #intellectual#curiosity" is exactly the type of thing that you can get from the internet that you never would have found at a library in the pre-digital days. It's fantastic!
#Curiosity is now in the "Kalavryta Quad," named after a town in Greece, in northern Peloponnese, about 130km west of Athens and near the Chelmos-Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark, a region that consists of 40 unique geological sites including caves, karstic springs, rivers, alpine lakes, and fossil sites.