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Curiosity and the Exploration of Gale Crater
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SOL0000-Mars_Descent_Imager_0000MD9999000027I1_DXXX-0000MD9999000621I1_DXXX-00.gifLet's go to Gale! - Sol 0 (a GIF-Movie by Dr Gianluigi Barca - Lunexit Team/Italian Planetary Foundation)77 visiteThis GIF-Movie shows all the "thumbnail" frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager during the time between the jettison of the Heat-Shield and the moment of Landing ("Touchdown"). The GIF-Video covers approx. the last 2,5 (two and one-half) minutes of descent before the Mars Exploration Rover and Laboratory "Curiosity" landed inside Gale Crater - Mars.MareKromium
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SOL0000-Mars_Descent_Imager_0000MD9999000027I1_DXXX-0000MD9999000621I1_DXXX-2-PIA15989.jpgLooking Down, at Gale - Sol 0 (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)74 visiteCaption NASA:"This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity Rover during its descent to the Surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). This image from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager reveals several Surface Features, including relatively Dark Dunes, degraded Impact Craters and other Geologic Features including small Escarpments that range in size from a few feet (meters) to many tens of feet (meters) in height". MareKromium
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SOL0000-RLA_397504876EDR_F0010000AUT_04096M-RRA_397506157EDR_F0010008AUT_04096M.gifBright Light near the Horizon - Sol 0 (a GIF-Movie by Dr Gianluigi Barca/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)154 visiteIn risposta alla nuova "Bufala" che circola sulla Rete (rimbalzando da You-Tube verso "n" Forum di Appassionati, in Italia ed all'Estero) - una bufala sicuramente ben fatta da un punto di vista tecnico e che è pure assai suggestiva ma, nel contempo, ahinoi, PROFONDAMENTE INGANNEVOLE ED ALTAMENTE DISINFORMATIVA -, noi, come Gruppo di Ricerca Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation, Vi mostriamo, grazie al lavoro del nostro Dr Gianluigi Barca, l'UNICO GIF-Movie realmente VERO e realmente ottenibile con i Frames scattati dal Rover Curiosity, poco dopo il Landing avvenuto all'interno del Cratere Marziano "Gale".
Si tratta, in realtà, di SOLI 3 (TRE!) frames, ottenuti mediante scatti in ottica "Up-Sun" (---> Contro-Sole). Nel primo si può vedere un Sole brillante ed un Orizzonte Locale buio e poco definito; nel secondo e nel terzo, invece, si può DISTINTAMENTE vedere un oggetto ad elevatissima Albedo (---> riflettenza) che brilla sotto i raggi del Sole e che, tra un frame e l'altro, pare cambiare leggeremente posizione, MA SENZA LEVARSI IN VOLO (come invece mostra il filmato-bufala dianzi citato)!
Come potete agevolmente comprendere, Cari Amici Lettori, il "Mistero", a ben guardare, c'era e c'è comunque: cos'è, infatti, l'oggetto dallo splendore metallico, che si intravede ad una distanza imprecisata (ma comunque nell'ordine delle centinaia di metri, non di più) dal Rover Curiosity?
Nessuno può saperlo.
Forse è lo Sky-Crane (ma ne dubitiamo); forse è l'Heat-Shield o la Back-Shell (ma ne dubitiamo ancora di più), o forse è qualche frammento metallico comunque connesso a Curiosity ed allo Sky-Crane: NESSUNO, per ora, lo può sapere con certezza (tranne la NASA, che però non si è espressa).
Data l'esistenza, quindi, di un "Piccolo Mistero" (chi ben comincia...), che bisogno c'era, diciamo noi, di "taroccare" tutto, INVENTARSI BEN 57 FRAMES Curiosity (che NON ESISTONO!!!), e creare quindi un GIF-Movie-bufala che altro non serve se non a gettare ulteriore ed ingiusto discredito sull'Ufologia e l'Anomaly Hunting? La domanda a noi pare del tutto legittima ma, anche in questo caso, una risposta definitiva noi non Ve la possiamo dare.
Ve ne diamo una interlocutoria, però, che è questa: accanto ad individui e gruppi di individui che, data e premessa la loro insipienza, passano la vita a criticare chi lavora e si impegna, esistono altri individui e gruppi di individui i quali, per ragioni che solo loro conoscono (e presumibilmente di natura commerciale...), fingendo di agire per "sollevare il velo" che copre le già esistenti (e, riteniamo, innumerevoli) Evidenze Oggettive della Presenza di Intelligenze Aliene le quali agiscono (letteralmente) accanto a noi, in realtà non fanno altro che creare ragioni di discredito e motivo di diffidenza nei confronti di coloro che, invece, agendo con serietà e professionalità, quel "Velo" cercano di sollevarlo veramente.
E poi qualcuno (qualche IDIOTA) si è pure permesso, in passato, di chiamare NOI "Complottisti"! Mamma mia che tristezza e che squallore...MareKromium
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SOL0000-RLA_397504876EDR_F0010000AUT_04096M_.jpgUp-Sun - Sol 0 (a b/w NASA-MER Curiosity Original Frame)96 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0000-RLA_397506157EDR_F0010008AUT_04096M_.jpgUp-Sun with "Mistery" - Sol 0 (a b/w NASA-MER Curiosity Original Frame)94 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0000-RRA_397504876EDR_F0010000AUT_04096M_.jpgUp-Sun with "Mistery" - Sol 0 (a b/w NASA-MER Curiosity Original Frame)76 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0001-673560main_msl5_full.jpgWelcome to Gale Crater! - Sol 1 (RAW Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team/IPF)88 visiteCaption NASA:"About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity Rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater. Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., received the image, taken by one of the vehicle's lower-fidelity, black-and-white Hazard Avoidance Cameras (or "HazCams").
"Curiosity's Landing Site is beginning to come into focus", said John Grotzinger, Project Manager of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "In the image, we are looking to the North/West. What you see on the Horizon is the Rim of Gale Crater. In the foreground, you can see a Gravel Field. The question is, where does this Gravel come from? It is the first of what will be many scientific questions to come from our new home on Mars".MareKromium
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SOL0001-673758main_PIA15974-43_full.jpgLinearized Rear-View - Sol 1 (RAW Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)80 visiteCaption NASA:"This is a version of one of the first images taken by a Rear Hazard-Avoidance Camera (HazCam) on NASA's Curiosity Rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT), 2012. It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens but has been "linearized" so that the Horizon looks flat rather than curved. The image has also been cropped. It is one-half of full resolution. Part of the Rim of Gale Crater, which is a feature the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, stretches from the top middle to the top right of the image. One of the Rover's Wheels can be seen at bottom right. As planned, the Rover's early engineering images are taken at Low Resolution". MareKromium
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SOL0001-PIA15969.jpgWelcome to Gale Crater: Curiosity's Shadow - Sol 1 (RAW b/w Original NASA Frame; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)92 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0001-PIA15970.jpgWelcome to Gale Crater: Curiosity's Shadow - Sol 1 (RAW b/w Original NASA Frame; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)87 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0001-PIA15971.jpgWelcome to Gale Crater! (First Light) - Sol 1 (RAW b/w Original NASA Frame; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)109 visiteNASA's most advanced Mars Rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton Rover, hanging by ropes from a Rocket Backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars, including the final severing of the bridle cords and flyaway maneuver of the Rocket Backpack.
"Today, the wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars. Curiosity, the most sophisticated Rover ever built, is now on the Surface of the Red Planet, where it will seek to answer age-old questions about whether life ever existed on Mars - or if the Planet can sustain life in the future", said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "This is an amazing achievement, made possible by a team of scientists and engineers from around the world and led by the extraordinary men and women of NASA and our Jet Propulsion Laboratory. President Obama has laid out a bold vision for sending humans to Mars in the mid-2030's, and today's landing marks a significant step toward achieving this goal".
Curiosity landed at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (01:32 a.m. EDT Aug. 6, 2012) near the foot of a Mountain 3 (three) miles tall and 96 miles in diameter inside Gale Crater. During a nearly two-year prime mission, the rover will investigate whether the region ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life.
"The Seven Minutes of Terror has turned into the Seven Minutes of Triumph", said NASA Associate Administrator for Science John Grunsfeld. "My immense joy in the success of this mission is matched only by overwhelming pride I feel for the women and men of the mission's team".
Curiosity returned its first view of Mars, a wide-angle scene of Rocky Ground near the front of the Rover. More images are anticipated in the next several days as the mission blends observations of the Landing Site with activities to configure the Rover for work and check the performance of its instruments and mechanisms.
"Our Curiosity is talking to us from the surface of Mars", said MSL Project Manager Peter Theisinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The landing takes us past the most hazardous moments for this project, and begins a new and exciting mission to pursue its scientific objectives."
Confirmation of Curiosity's successful landing came in communications relayed by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter and received by the Canberra, Australia, antenna station of NASA's Deep Space Network.
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 elemental composition of rocks from a distance. 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.
This is the first image taken by NASA's Curiosity Rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on one of the Rover's Rear Left Hazard-Avoidance Cameras at one-quarter of full resolution. The camera is the left eye of a stereo pair positioned at the back left, or port, side of the Rover.
The Clear Dust Cover on the camera is still on in this view, and dust can be seen around its edge, along with three cover fasteners. One of the Rover's wheels is in the lower right corner. As planned, the Rover's early engineering images are lower resolution. Larger color images are expected later in the week when the Rover's Mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.MareKromium
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SOL0001-PIA15972.jpgWelcome to Gale Crater! - Sol 1 (RAW b/w Original NASA Frame; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)80 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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