Farewell Magellan

Palomar · 2004-10-13 05:43:45

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/venus-04m.html]Contact lost

*Controllers lost contact on Tuesday, due to low power; "exacerbated by Magellan's orientation as it performed a final experiment in the upper atmosphere of Venus."

Magellan expected to burn up in Venus' atmosphere within two days.

Gives highlights of the mission.

"Magellan also performed a first-of-a-kind 'aerobraking' maneuver by dipping into the atmosphere to reshape its orbit. This technique ... used ... in the design of the Mars Global Surveyor mission to enable the spacecraft to enter orbit around the planet Mars in 1997 using less fuel, resulting in significant savings of weight and cost." :up:

--Cindy

C M Edwards · 2004-10-13 08:48:50

Knocked out and burned up during it's final experiment...

That's how I want to go.

SpaceNut · 2004-10-13 08:57:28

Or B was this another of those cost saving endings by Nasa in order to hide other accounting short falls. (I hope I am wrong)

But the science it has given us of venus would have been hard to do without it, if it were launched today under the tight budget constraints that Nasa currently has.

Palomar · 2004-10-14 10:40:22

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap9801 … Arachnoids on Venus

Check it out. Cool.

--Cindy

Palomar · 2004-10-15 08:08:54

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apo … Collection of Magellan photos and information

*I found this list by searching with "Magellan" at Astropix. A couple of these images and captions have been posted previously here at New Mars, I'm sure (in the "New Discoveries" threads). Astropix sometimes re-posts their items, so there are some duplicates in their list. Also, as I searched with the word "Magellan," a few items related to the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds returned in the search as well.

--Cindy

Palomar · 2004-10-15 10:24:19

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apo … Collection of Magellan photos and information

*In addition to the above collection, here's a really terrific resource for http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/solar/en … m]Venusian Volcanic Features. I've seen and read this before, but haven't posted it at New Mars previously.

Check out the Pancake Volcanoes. :laugh: Aptly named.

Cluster Cone volcanoes, Anemone type, etc. :up:

--Cindy

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