August 2012 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Coronado PST Scope
by Kay Hargis 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

I have been nosing around . checking out the Coronado PST scope. I see Mark Alston wrote a report on Amazon. what is the general feeling about this scope. Any thoughts would be appreciated.. Thanks, Kay ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 53 But Looks 25 Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/50202eb2e81a12eb13390st03duc

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MSL paper models (and other craft)
by Daniel Holmes 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Don't know if this is of interest to too many people, but here is a bunch of paper (print them yourself, fold and glue) models of various spacecraft. At the bottom, they just added the MSL in a few configurations... http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_postapollo.html#m87 Dan -- Sent from an iPad. There should be less mispelings, but more errors.

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Fw: NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
by Joe Bauman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: JPL News <Jplnews(a)jpl.nasa.gov> To: Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 11:28 AM Subject: NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE 818-354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Guy Webster / DC Agle 8180-354-6278 / 818-393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. guy.webster(a)jpl.nasa.gov / agle(a)jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington Dwayne.c.brown(a)nasa.gov NEWS RELEASE: 2012-232 August 6, 2012 NASA'S CURIOSITY ROVER CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF LANDING PASADENA, Calif. – An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater. "If HiRISE took the image one second before or one second after, we probably would be looking at an empty Martian landscape," said Sarah Milkovich, HiRISE investigation scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you consider that we have been working on this sequence since March and had to upload commands to the spacecraft about 72 hours prior to the image being taken, you begin to realize how challenging this picture was to obtain." The image of Curiosity on its parachute can be found at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia15978b.html The image was taken while MRO was 211 miles (340 kilometers) away from the parachuting rover. Curiosity and its rocket-propelled backpack, contained within the conical-shaped back shell, had yet to be deployed. At the time, Curiosity was about two miles (three kilometers) above the Martian surface. "Guess you could consider us the closest thing to paparazzi on Mars," said Milkovich. "We definitely caught NASA's newest celebrity in the act." Curiosity, NASA's latest contribution to the Martian landscape, landed at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 on Aug. 6, EDT) near the foot of a mountain three miles tall inside Gale Crater, 96 miles in diameter. In other Curiosity news, one part of the rover team at the JPL continues to analyze the data from last night's landing while another continues to prepare the one-ton mobile laboratory for its future explorations of Gale Crater. One key assignment given to Curiosity for its first full day on Mars is to raise its high-gain antenna. Using this antenna will increase the data rate at which the rover can communicate directly with Earth. The mission will use relays to orbiters as the primary method for sending data home, because that method is much more energy-efficient for the rover. Curiosity carries 10 science instruments with a total mass 15 times as large as the science payloads on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Some of the tools are the first of their kind on Mars, such as a laser-firing instrument for checking rocks' elemental composition from a distance. Later in the mission, the rover will use a drill and scoop at the end of its robotic arm to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into analytical laboratory instruments inside the rover. To handle this science toolkit, Curiosity is twice as long and five times as heavy as Spirit or Opportunity. The Gale Crater landing site places the rover within driving distance to layers of the crater's interior mountain. Observations from orbit have identified clay and sulfate minerals in the lower layers, indicating a wet history. The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. For more information on the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mars and http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl Follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project and the Mars Exploration Rover Project are managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the orbiter. For more about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, see http://www.nasa.gov/mro . -end-

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mars
by Joe Bauman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Oops that's me, not Mr. This tiny keyboard almost drives me nuts. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 9:53 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >To celebrate the successful landing last night, I've been listening to Jeff >Wayne's classic rock opera "The War of the Worlds" today at work. Narrated >by Richard Burton, if you haven't heard it, you've missed out. I have it >on vinyl and a few years ago got the CD set when it was re-released. It >follows Wells originally story. > >IIRC, I bought the LP at the Cosmic Aeroplane. There's a blast from the >past. >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mars
by Joe Bauman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Friends of mine founded Cosmic and asked Mr if I wanted to get in on it. But I couldn't at the time. I really liked their selection of books. ------------------------------ On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 9:53 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >To celebrate the successful landing last night, I've been listening to Jeff >Wayne's classic rock opera "The War of the Worlds" today at work. Narrated >by Richard Burton, if you haven't heard it, you've missed out. I have it >on vinyl and a few years ago got the CD set when it was re-released. It >follows Wells originally story. > >IIRC, I bought the LP at the Cosmic Aeroplane. There's a blast from the >past. >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mars
by Joe Bauman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Friends of mine founded Cosmic and asked Mr if I wanted to get in on it. But I couldn't at the time. I really liked their selection of books. ------------------------------ On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 9:53 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >To celebrate the successful landing last night, I've been listening to Jeff >Wayne's classic rock opera "The War of the Worlds" today at work. Narrated >by Richard Burton, if you haven't heard it, you've missed out. I have it >on vinyl and a few years ago got the CD set when it was re-released. It >follows Wells originally story. > >IIRC, I bought the LP at the Cosmic Aeroplane. There's a blast from the >past. >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mars
by Joe Bauman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Friends of mine founded Cosmic and asked Mr if I wanted to get in on it. But I couldn't at the time. I really liked their selection of books. ------------------------------ On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 9:53 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >To celebrate the successful landing last night, I've been listening to Jeff >Wayne's classic rock opera "The War of the Worlds" today at work. Narrated >by Richard Burton, if you haven't heard it, you've missed out. I have it >on vinyl and a few years ago got the CD set when it was re-released. It >follows Wells originally story. > >IIRC, I bought the LP at the Cosmic Aeroplane. There's a blast from the >past. >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mars
by Joe Bauman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Friends of mine founded Cosmic and asked Mr if I wanted to get in on it. But I couldn't at the time. I really liked their selection of books. ------------------------------ On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 9:53 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >To celebrate the successful landing last night, I've been listening to Jeff >Wayne's classic rock opera "The War of the Worlds" today at work. Narrated >by Richard Burton, if you haven't heard it, you've missed out. I have it >on vinyl and a few years ago got the CD set when it was re-released. It >follows Wells originally story. > >IIRC, I bought the LP at the Cosmic Aeroplane. There's a blast from the >past. >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Mars
by Daniel Holmes 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Better get that five bucks ready, Chuck! Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors.

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"Mars is Hard" scoreboard
by Patrick Wiggins 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

For those who may not have seen yesterday's news conference, here's the scoreboard the folks at NASA/JPL showed: http://www.spaceflight101.com/msl-scoreboard.html Of course that reflects all attempts by all nations to get to Mars. Happily the Earth score for recent missions is quite a bit better. Go MSL! patrick

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