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https://www.europesays.com/uk/623242/ Lunar Outpost’s MAPP Rovers: From Commercial Exploration to Artemis Integration #ArtemisV #IM2 #LunarExploration #LunarOutpost #LunarTerrainVehicle #Nasa #Science #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/224635/ Lunar Outpost’s MAPP Rovers: From Commercial Exploration to Artemis Integration #ArtemisV #Éire #IE #IM2 #Ireland #LunarExploration #LunarOutpost #LunarTerrainVehicle #nasa #Science #Space
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Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.
You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.
You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.
You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.
You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.
You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
LRO imaged the Athena landing site:
https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409
but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:
https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281
I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
LRO imaged the Athena landing site:
https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409
but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:
https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281
I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
LRO imaged the Athena landing site:
https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409
but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:
https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281
I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
LRO imaged the Athena landing site:
https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409
but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:
https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281
I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
LRO imaged the Athena landing site:
https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409
but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:
https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281
I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
#maps #moon #IM2 #athena #OHRC -
Finally, at the bottom of the image in the last post is a version with vertical exaggeration (my party trick) which makes it easier to see the sliver of landscape outside the crater. Half a crater is visible outside the foreground crater at right. We will see it tomorrow in a very different image.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Finally, at the bottom of the image in the last post is a version with vertical exaggeration (my party trick) which makes it easier to see the sliver of landscape outside the crater. Half a crater is visible outside the foreground crater at right. We will see it tomorrow in a very different image.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Finally, at the bottom of the image in the last post is a version with vertical exaggeration (my party trick) which makes it easier to see the sliver of landscape outside the crater. Half a crater is visible outside the foreground crater at right. We will see it tomorrow in a very different image.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Finally, at the bottom of the image in the last post is a version with vertical exaggeration (my party trick) which makes it easier to see the sliver of landscape outside the crater. Half a crater is visible outside the foreground crater at right. We will see it tomorrow in a very different image.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Finally, at the bottom of the image in the last post is a version with vertical exaggeration (my party trick) which makes it easier to see the sliver of landscape outside the crater. Half a crater is visible outside the foreground crater at right. We will see it tomorrow in a very different image.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Another look at the surface view from IM-2 Athena. It's lying on its side with the TRIDENT drill on the top as seen here. It was extended out from the camera to test its motion and other operations but couldn't touch the surface. The view is to the northwest. I brightened the shaded crater floor, showing a rock at lower right in A which is probably the same rock seen in B (see yesterday's post). Below, a view with the horizon straightened (C)...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Another look at the surface view from IM-2 Athena. It's lying on its side with the TRIDENT drill on the top as seen here. It was extended out from the camera to test its motion and other operations but couldn't touch the surface. The view is to the northwest. I brightened the shaded crater floor, showing a rock at lower right in A which is probably the same rock seen in B (see yesterday's post). Below, a view with the horizon straightened (C)...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Another look at the surface view from IM-2 Athena. It's lying on its side with the TRIDENT drill on the top as seen here. It was extended out from the camera to test its motion and other operations but couldn't touch the surface. The view is to the northwest. I brightened the shaded crater floor, showing a rock at lower right in A which is probably the same rock seen in B (see yesterday's post). Below, a view with the horizon straightened (C)...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Another look at the surface view from IM-2 Athena. It's lying on its side with the TRIDENT drill on the top as seen here. It was extended out from the camera to test its motion and other operations but couldn't touch the surface. The view is to the northwest. I brightened the shaded crater floor, showing a rock at lower right in A which is probably the same rock seen in B (see yesterday's post). Below, a view with the horizon straightened (C)...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
Another look at the surface view from IM-2 Athena. It's lying on its side with the TRIDENT drill on the top as seen here. It was extended out from the camera to test its motion and other operations but couldn't touch the surface. The view is to the northwest. I brightened the shaded crater floor, showing a rock at lower right in A which is probably the same rock seen in B (see yesterday's post). Below, a view with the horizon straightened (C)...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
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The second rover was a tiny vehicle called Yaoki from Japan:
It couldn't deploy but could take pictures looking 'down' (in this case sideways) and about 25 images were taken:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/louisburtz/dymon-yaoki-lunar-rover-images-from-im2-mission/
Finally, here is my processed version of it. The odd curved disk at right is a decal which was fixed on the footpad and has broken off and curled up a bit. The very bright streak is part of the crater rim in sunlight.
#moon #IM2 #athena #yaoki -
The second rover was a tiny vehicle called Yaoki from Japan:
It couldn't deploy but could take pictures looking 'down' (in this case sideways) and about 25 images were taken:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/louisburtz/dymon-yaoki-lunar-rover-images-from-im2-mission/
Finally, here is my processed version of it. The odd curved disk at right is a decal which was fixed on the footpad and has broken off and curled up a bit. The very bright streak is part of the crater rim in sunlight.
#moon #IM2 #athena #yaoki -
The second rover was a tiny vehicle called Yaoki from Japan:
It couldn't deploy but could take pictures looking 'down' (in this case sideways) and about 25 images were taken:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/louisburtz/dymon-yaoki-lunar-rover-images-from-im2-mission/
Finally, here is my processed version of it. The odd curved disk at right is a decal which was fixed on the footpad and has broken off and curled up a bit. The very bright streak is part of the crater rim in sunlight.
#moon #IM2 #athena #yaoki -
The second rover was a tiny vehicle called Yaoki from Japan:
It couldn't deploy but could take pictures looking 'down' (in this case sideways) and about 25 images were taken:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/louisburtz/dymon-yaoki-lunar-rover-images-from-im2-mission/
Finally, here is my processed version of it. The odd curved disk at right is a decal which was fixed on the footpad and has broken off and curled up a bit. The very bright streak is part of the crater rim in sunlight.
#moon #IM2 #athena #yaoki -
The second rover was a tiny vehicle called Yaoki from Japan:
It couldn't deploy but could take pictures looking 'down' (in this case sideways) and about 25 images were taken:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/louisburtz/dymon-yaoki-lunar-rover-images-from-im2-mission/
Finally, here is my processed version of it. The odd curved disk at right is a decal which was fixed on the footpad and has broken off and curled up a bit. The very bright streak is part of the crater rim in sunlight.
#moon #IM2 #athena #yaoki -
This article from NASASpaceFlight.com:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/blue-ghost-im-2-landings/
gives an account of the IM-2 Athena landing, after looking at Firefly's mission (they landed only 4 days apart). It includes this surface image:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/im-2_moon_orientation-1920x1442.jpg
So we got an image, but several experiments got to run tests including the TRIDENT drill, so there was some data to be had. A rover called MAPP from Lunar Outpost couldn't operate, but a second one took some images...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
This article from NASASpaceFlight.com:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/blue-ghost-im-2-landings/
gives an account of the IM-2 Athena landing, after looking at Firefly's mission (they landed only 4 days apart). It includes this surface image:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/im-2_moon_orientation-1920x1442.jpg
So we got an image, but several experiments got to run tests including the TRIDENT drill, so there was some data to be had. A rover called MAPP from Lunar Outpost couldn't operate, but a second one took some images...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
This article from NASASpaceFlight.com:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/blue-ghost-im-2-landings/
gives an account of the IM-2 Athena landing, after looking at Firefly's mission (they landed only 4 days apart). It includes this surface image:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/im-2_moon_orientation-1920x1442.jpg
So we got an image, but several experiments got to run tests including the TRIDENT drill, so there was some data to be had. A rover called MAPP from Lunar Outpost couldn't operate, but a second one took some images...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
This article from NASASpaceFlight.com:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/blue-ghost-im-2-landings/
gives an account of the IM-2 Athena landing, after looking at Firefly's mission (they landed only 4 days apart). It includes this surface image:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/im-2_moon_orientation-1920x1442.jpg
So we got an image, but several experiments got to run tests including the TRIDENT drill, so there was some data to be had. A rover called MAPP from Lunar Outpost couldn't operate, but a second one took some images...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
This article from NASASpaceFlight.com:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/blue-ghost-im-2-landings/
gives an account of the IM-2 Athena landing, after looking at Firefly's mission (they landed only 4 days apart). It includes this surface image:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/im-2_moon_orientation-1920x1442.jpg
So we got an image, but several experiments got to run tests including the TRIDENT drill, so there was some data to be had. A rover called MAPP from Lunar Outpost couldn't operate, but a second one took some images...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
I expect everyone knows what happened to Athena... it landed but fell over, ending on its side in a shaded crater floor, its legs poking up into the sunlight. It couldn't recharge its batteries so it just did what it could (which was quite a lot) before the power ran out in about 12 hours. Views differ but I call a landing a success if any operations are possible on the surface - not the same as mission success. Let's see what it did...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
I expect everyone knows what happened to Athena... it landed but fell over, ending on its side in a shaded crater floor, its legs poking up into the sunlight. It couldn't recharge its batteries so it just did what it could (which was quite a lot) before the power ran out in about 12 hours. Views differ but I call a landing a success if any operations are possible on the surface - not the same as mission success. Let's see what it did...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
I expect everyone knows what happened to Athena... it landed but fell over, ending on its side in a shaded crater floor, its legs poking up into the sunlight. It couldn't recharge its batteries so it just did what it could (which was quite a lot) before the power ran out in about 12 hours. Views differ but I call a landing a success if any operations are possible on the surface - not the same as mission success. Let's see what it did...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
I expect everyone knows what happened to Athena... it landed but fell over, ending on its side in a shaded crater floor, its legs poking up into the sunlight. It couldn't recharge its batteries so it just did what it could (which was quite a lot) before the power ran out in about 12 hours. Views differ but I call a landing a success if any operations are possible on the surface - not the same as mission success. Let's see what it did...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
I expect everyone knows what happened to Athena... it landed but fell over, ending on its side in a shaded crater floor, its legs poking up into the sunlight. It couldn't recharge its batteries so it just did what it could (which was quite a lot) before the power ran out in about 12 hours. Views differ but I call a landing a success if any operations are possible on the surface - not the same as mission success. Let's see what it did...
#moon #IM2 #athena -
We zoomed in to the landing site with the last set of maps, and Athena zoomed in too, taking images as it approached the landing site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/intuitivemachines/
I think the image I used here came from a tweet, but I can't find the source now. I have changed the radial scale and cleaned up significant brightness variations. The shallow crater from yesterday is seen here, and the distant K crater. The original had an intuitive logo which is distorted here.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
We zoomed in to the landing site with the last set of maps, and Athena zoomed in too, taking images as it approached the landing site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/intuitivemachines/
I think the image I used here came from a tweet, but I can't find the source now. I have changed the radial scale and cleaned up significant brightness variations. The shallow crater from yesterday is seen here, and the distant K crater. The original had an intuitive logo which is distorted here.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
We zoomed in to the landing site with the last set of maps, and Athena zoomed in too, taking images as it approached the landing site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/intuitivemachines/
I think the image I used here came from a tweet, but I can't find the source now. I have changed the radial scale and cleaned up significant brightness variations. The shallow crater from yesterday is seen here, and the distant K crater. The original had an intuitive logo which is distorted here.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
We zoomed in to the landing site with the last set of maps, and Athena zoomed in too, taking images as it approached the landing site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/intuitivemachines/
I think the image I used here came from a tweet, but I can't find the source now. I have changed the radial scale and cleaned up significant brightness variations. The shallow crater from yesterday is seen here, and the distant K crater. The original had an intuitive logo which is distorted here.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
We zoomed in to the landing site with the last set of maps, and Athena zoomed in too, taking images as it approached the landing site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/intuitivemachines/
I think the image I used here came from a tweet, but I can't find the source now. I have changed the radial scale and cleaned up significant brightness variations. The shallow crater from yesterday is seen here, and the distant K crater. The original had an intuitive logo which is distorted here.
#moon #IM2 #athena -
That last map shows a bright streak along the lander descent path. The lander seems to have struck the surface with some horizontal velocity and toppled into a crater, landing on its side. A similar fate befell the first Intuitive Machines lander, alas. The site is about 400 m southeast of the target. That shallow crater is visible in descent images as we will see.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
That last map shows a bright streak along the lander descent path. The lander seems to have struck the surface with some horizontal velocity and toppled into a crater, landing on its side. A similar fate befell the first Intuitive Machines lander, alas. The site is about 400 m southeast of the target. That shallow crater is visible in descent images as we will see.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
That last map shows a bright streak along the lander descent path. The lander seems to have struck the surface with some horizontal velocity and toppled into a crater, landing on its side. A similar fate befell the first Intuitive Machines lander, alas. The site is about 400 m southeast of the target. That shallow crater is visible in descent images as we will see.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
That last map shows a bright streak along the lander descent path. The lander seems to have struck the surface with some horizontal velocity and toppled into a crater, landing on its side. A similar fate befell the first Intuitive Machines lander, alas. The site is about 400 m southeast of the target. That shallow crater is visible in descent images as we will see.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
That last map shows a bright streak along the lander descent path. The lander seems to have struck the surface with some horizontal velocity and toppled into a crater, landing on its side. A similar fate befell the first Intuitive Machines lander, alas. The site is about 400 m southeast of the target. That shallow crater is visible in descent images as we will see.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
Here we zoom in on the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Athena landing site. Mons Mouton is a rolling hills kind of topography like Salisbury Plain where I grew up. The second map here shows that the landing site is quite smooth compared to areas around it. Some craters have letter designations as mentioned yesterday. H would be the shadowed crater floor which the hopper would jump into. The last image shows the lander itself in a crater.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
Here we zoom in on the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Athena landing site. Mons Mouton is a rolling hills kind of topography like Salisbury Plain where I grew up. The second map here shows that the landing site is quite smooth compared to areas around it. Some craters have letter designations as mentioned yesterday. H would be the shadowed crater floor which the hopper would jump into. The last image shows the lander itself in a crater.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
Here we zoom in on the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Athena landing site. Mons Mouton is a rolling hills kind of topography like Salisbury Plain where I grew up. The second map here shows that the landing site is quite smooth compared to areas around it. Some craters have letter designations as mentioned yesterday. H would be the shadowed crater floor which the hopper would jump into. The last image shows the lander itself in a crater.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
Here we zoom in on the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Athena landing site. Mons Mouton is a rolling hills kind of topography like Salisbury Plain where I grew up. The second map here shows that the landing site is quite smooth compared to areas around it. Some craters have letter designations as mentioned yesterday. H would be the shadowed crater floor which the hopper would jump into. The last image shows the lander itself in a crater.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
Here we zoom in on the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Athena landing site. Mons Mouton is a rolling hills kind of topography like Salisbury Plain where I grew up. The second map here shows that the landing site is quite smooth compared to areas around it. Some craters have letter designations as mentioned yesterday. H would be the shadowed crater floor which the hopper would jump into. The last image shows the lander itself in a crater.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
The Mahanti and Atwell sites were shown in 2 LPSC abstracts about IM-2. The Atwell site was the actual mission target. Four craters have letter designations, from maps shown on the company website (https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2) - see the Mission Press Kit.
Tomorrow we will take a closer look at the site.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
The Mahanti and Atwell sites were shown in 2 LPSC abstracts about IM-2. The Atwell site was the actual mission target. Four craters have letter designations, from maps shown on the company website (https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2) - see the Mission Press Kit.
Tomorrow we will take a closer look at the site.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena -
The Mahanti and Atwell sites were shown in 2 LPSC abstracts about IM-2. The Atwell site was the actual mission target. Four craters have letter designations, from maps shown on the company website (https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2) - see the Mission Press Kit.
Tomorrow we will take a closer look at the site.
#moon #maps #IM2 #athena