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Français : Photo prise par la caméra HIRISE de l'orbiteur MRO du site d'atterrissage de Mars Science Laboratory dans le cratère Gale sur Mars. Tous les composants de l'étage de descente sont présents sur la photo : le rover, le bouclier thermique avant (à droite) se trouve à environ 1200 mètres du rover, le bouclier arrière et le parachute dans le coin en bas à gauche de la photo se trouve à environ 650 mètres de la photo, tandis que l'étage de descente qui a déposé Curiosity s'est écrasé également à environ 650 mètres du rover (en haut à gauche sur la photo)
English: Scene of the Martian Landing of Mars Science Laboratory
The four main pieces of hardware that arrived on Mars with NASA's Curiosity rover were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured this image about 24 hours after landing. The large, reduced-scale image points out the strewn hardware: the heat shield was the first piece to hit the ground, followed by the back shell attached to the parachute, then the rover itself touched down, and finally, after cables were cut, the sky crane flew away to the northwest and crashed. Relatively dark areas in all four spots are from disturbances of the bright dust on Mars, revealing the darker material below the surface dust. Around the rover, this disturbance was from the sky crane thrusters, and forms a bilaterally symmetrical pattern. The darkened radial jets from the sky crane are downrange from the point of oblique impact, much like the oblique impacts of asteroids. In fact, they make an arrow pointing to Curiosity. This image was acquired from a special 41-degree roll of MRO, larger than the normal 30-degree limit. It rolled towards the west and towards the sun, which increases visible scattering by atmospheric dust as well as the amount of atmosphere the orbiter has to look through, thereby reducing the contrast of surface features. Future images will show the hardware in greater detail. Our view is tilted about 45 degrees from the surface (more than the 41-degree roll due to planetary curvature), like a view out of an airplane window. Tilt the images 90 degrees clockwise to see the surface better from this perspective. The views are primarily of the shadowed side of the rover and other objects. The image scale is 39 centimeters (15.3 inches) per pixel. |
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Source | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/PIA16001.html |
Author | NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona |
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