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Phil Stooke
@PhilStooke@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

This is the final ellipse plotted on a USGS map. The large cross shows the post-mission estimate of the landing location. The actual site was found later (by Tim Parker of JPL) in better Viking images late in the mission, then seen clearly in HiRISE images. I was looking too, following advice from Merton Davies of RAND, but he and I were both wrong. Now it's time to get down on the ground.
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The final Viking 1 landing ellipse. The big cross shows the post-mission estimate of location and a dot shows the actual site found in HiRISE images. The base image is a USGS map with contours from stereoscopic imaging.
The final Viking 1 landing ellipse. The big cross shows the post-mission estimate of location and a dot shows the actual site found in HiRISE images. The base image is a USGS map with contours from stereoscopic imaging.
The final Viking 1 landing ellipse. The big cross shows the post-mission estimate of location and a dot shows the actual site found in HiRISE images. The base image is a USGS map with contours from stereoscopic imaging.
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