SMART-1: the Moon from ESA
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72-moon_northpole 2.jpgThe Lunar North Pole (2)73 visiteCaption ESA originale:"(...) This picture is valuable as it shows illumination conditions at the Region. It is important to understand global illumination conditions to help in planning the location of future landing sites and, later, possible bases on the Moon".
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90-August Moon.jpgThe "Impact Site" of SMART-153 visiteCaption ESA originale:"Reconnaissance view of the Moon on 20 August 2006 at 00:00 UT.
The Lunar North Pole is up.
The SMART-1 impact is expected on 3 September 2006 in the Lacus Excellentiae Region, at the top of the U-shape feature situated North of the crater Clausius "B". The nominal impact position is marked by the red circle".
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97-SMART_1_impact_sites_mineralcolours.jpgThe "Impact Site" of SMART-1 (mineralogy)53 visitenessun commento
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98-SMART-1-Impact-Graphic-hq.jpgThe "Impact Site" of SMART-1 (detailed)58 visiteCaption ESA originale:"Map of the Lacus Excellentiae Region, showing the nominal SMART-1 impact orbit (central red line: orbit 2890) and possible impact location at perilune on the Lunar Surface.
The two adjecent orbits, 2889 and 2891, and their perilune locations are also indicated.
Note that 1° of Latitude corresponds to 30 km on the Moon, and that one arcsec from Earth subtends 1,8 km on the Moon centre".
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99-Orbite01_H.jpgThe "end" of SMART-176 visiteCaption ESA originale:"This artist's impression shows the trajectory of ESA SMART-1 Spacecraft in the final phase of its mission, due to end through a small impact on the Lunar Surface.
After two weeks of manoeuvres started on 19 June and concluded on 2 July 2006, the impact is now set to occur on the Near Side and most probably at 05:41 UT (such as 07:41 Central Europe Standard Time) on 3 September 2006".
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Z-099-Lunar Impact-SMART-1.jpgThe Impact Sequence53 visiteCaption ESA originale:"Analysis of images obtained at the CFHT by Christian Veillet have revealed a plume of debris thrown up when SMART-1 impacted the Lunar Surface.
The observations were made with the WIRCam wide-field infrared camera with 10s exposure time through an H2 narrow-band filter at 2122 nanometers with a 32 nanometers bandwidth.
Each image is approximately 2'x 2', equating to 200x200 Km".
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Z-100-observation_SMART-1_hawaii_H.jpgImpact Time (the sequence)!72 visiteCaption ESA originale:"This impressive sequence of SMART-1 impact images was captured by the 3,6-meter optical/infrared Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), Hawaii, 3 September 2006.
The CFHT observed the projected impact area between 07:00 - 08:44 CEST (05:00 06:44 UT). The impact flash lasted only about 1 millisecond. It may have been caused by the thermal emission from the impact itself or by the release of spacecraft volatiles, such as the small amount of hydrazine fuel remaining on board".
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Z-101-b_Impact_flash_865170.jpgLunar Flash! (detail mgnf)67 visitenessun commento
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Z-102-smart1_crash_location_H.jpgThe "Impact Location" (1)77 visitenessun commento
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Z-103-LO_4_148_H3_impact_point_H.jpgThe "Impact Location" (2)63 visiteCaption ESA originale:"The blue star indicates the approximate impact site assuming that the coordinate system used to produce the reference Clementine Base Mosaic is correct. The yellow star indicates the approximate impact site using USGS's lunar control network revised with respect to the Clementine Base Mosaic. The distance separating the blue and yellow stars is about 7 Km.
In this image North is up".
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Z-104-TheMoon-Eclipse030307_AT_ESTEC1.jpgAfter the end of Totality...55 visiteCaption ESA:"This image was taken during the Partial Eclipse Phase of the March, 3rd, 2007 Total Lunar Eclipse, about 10 minutes after the end of totality".MareKromium
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Z-108-The_Moon-OresmeCrater.jpgOresme Crater53 visiteCaption ESA:"This image mosaic was obtained by the AMIE camera onboard the SMART-1 spacecraft. The most prominent feature is the 76 Km crater Oresme that originated in the Nectarian age.
It is located on the Far-Side of the Moon, across the North-Western part of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Giant Impact Basin".MareKromium
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