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Three spacecraft at Mars survived a close brush with a comet that buzzed by the Red Planet Sunday (Oct. 19), while scientists on Earth captured some amazing images of the comet's close pass.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) probe and Odyssey spacecraft appear to be in good health after hiding behind Mars as Comet Siding Springwhizzed 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) past the planet at high speed. The three spacecraft and two rovers NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity plus the two other probes at the Red Planet, were also charged with gathering information about the comet and its effect on Mars.
"We're glad the spacecraft came through, we're excited to complete our observations of how the comet affects Mars and we're eager to get to our primary science phase," MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement. [See photos of Comet Siding Spring]
People using telescopes captured some incredible images of Comet Siding Spring and Mars from Earth. One photo, from the Siding Spring Observatory, shows Mars as an extremely bright spot with the comet shining in blue at the center of the image. Background stars also fill the stunning image of the close approach.
"Working on three scopes at the Siding Spring Observatory, we hoped that between them, we'd get a great result," astronomer Nick Howes told Space.com of his plans to capture images of the comet. "When the images started coming in, we knew we had something special, just from the raw data. There's been a lot of great images taken today; we're just proud that the education-driven Tzec [Maun Foundation] took some of them."
Another image of the comet, taken from Spain by photographer Juan Miguel Gonzlez Polo, shows the comet (a circled green streak) flying toward Mars on Oct. 17 before its closest pass with the Red Planet.
The spacecraft at Mars had to take cover behind the planet because the speeding dust sloughed off by Comet Siding Spring could have posed a threat to the mechanisms of the probes. The comet was flying through space at 126,000 mph (203,000 km/h) relative to Mars, according to NASA.
The spacecraft's evasive maneuvers seemed to have worked, and all three of NASA's orbiting spacecraft managed to gather some data as the comet flew by. The spacecraft observed any changes to the Martian atmosphere that could have been caused by the comet's dust, and scientists were also hoping to gather data the could help them learn more about the
"The telemetry received from Odyssey this afternoon confirms not only that the spacecraft is in fine health but also that it conducted the planned observations of comet Siding Spring within hours of the comet's closest approach to Mars," Odyssey Mission Manager Chris Potts, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
Editor's Note: If you tracked Comet Siding Spring with a telescope and captured an image of the comet, let us know! You can send images and comments in to Space.com at: spacephotos@space.com.
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While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing satellites orbiting Earth, including NOAA-NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, or Suomi NPP, satellite. It is not unusual for satellites that have the capability of maneuvering to be repositioned to avoid debris or to maintain the proper orbit.
On an otherwise quiet Sunday on September 28, the Suomi NPP mission team was monitoring a possible close approach of a debris object. By early evening, the risk was assessed to be high enough to start planning a spacecraft maneuver to put the satellite into a safer zone, out of the path of the object classified in a size range of 4 inches up to 3.3 feet.
It was determined that the object (travelling at almost 17,000 mph) was approaching at a nearly "head on" angle, and could potentially only miss the Suomi NPP satellite by approximately 300 feet on Tuesday, September 30, if no action was taken. With that knowledge, the decision was made at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, September 29, for NOAA's Satellite Operations Facility, or NSOF, in Suitland, Maryland, to reposition Suomi NPP. Operational control as well as planning and execution of all Suomi NPP maneuvers take place at NSOF.
"Because Suomi NPP moves at a similar speed as the debris object, if there had been an impact, it would have occurred at a combined speed of nearly 35,000 mph. This would have been catastrophic not only to the satellite, but would result in thousands of pieces of new debris," said Harry Solomon, Mission Manager for Suomi NPP at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Space around Earth is littered with numerous man-made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris). There are more than 20,000 objects being monitored by the U.S. Department of Defense for satellite managers around the world.
Only about 1,000 of those 20,000 objects are operating spacecraft. The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low-Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.
Yet it is the unknown, often smaller, untracked objects that pose the biggest threat. "If a spacecraft is lost due to being hit by debris, the odds are the satellite will be hit by something the trackers can't see," said Nicholas Johnson, NASA chief scientist (retired) for orbital debris at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
That is exactly the scenario Solomon and his counterpart, Martin England, mission operations engineering lead at NSOF hope will never happen.
Risk Team Monitors Unmanned Missions Threats for NOAA and NASA
While NASA's Johnson Space Center manages monitored debris threats for spacecraft related to U.S. manned missions such as the International Space Station, the responsibility for unmanned missions managed by NASA falls to the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, or CARA, team operating out of NASA Goddard.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- An icy, glowing comet recently whizzed by Mars, forcing NASA to position its orbiting probes on the other side of the Red Planet, shielded from the dust and debris trailing the massive space rock. But even as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was taking shelter, it was able to capture some closeups of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring.
According to NASA, the new photos -- captured using the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera -- are the highest-resolution images ever captured of a comet from the Oort Cloud.
The best shots of the comet's bright nucleus suggest previous estimates as to the size of Silver Spring were inaccurate. In the lead-up to the comet's flyby, astronomers put the nucleus's diameter at roughly half a mile. But the new images, which measure just three pixels across at its brightest point, indicate Silver Spring is not even half the size of astronomers' original estimates.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has released the first resolved images of comet Siding Spring's nucleus -- and it's a lot smaller than people expected.
The nucleus of the comet that zoomed past the Red Planet on Sunday appears to be about half its predicted size of about half a mile. This surprising find could be one of many to come as scientists pore over the data sent back by the NASA orbiters and rovers that teamed up to study the mysterious visitor from the solar systems distant Oort cloud.
All three orbiters -- the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, a.k.a. MAVEN -- captured data that are being relayed to NASA scientists. Both rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, trained their "eyes" on the skies. The elderly Opportunity has already sent back images of the comet taken with its panoramic camera. It could take a few more days for all of the data to be downlinked and processed, the space agency said.
The teamwork should help researchers get a fuller picture of comet Siding Spring, which blazed by Mars on Sunday at 125,000 mph. At its closest approach about 11:27 a.m. Pacific time, the comet came within about 87,000 miles of Mars. Thats about one-third the distance between Earth and the moon.
After the comet formally known as C/2013 A1 Siding Spring was discovered in January 2013, scientists worried that it could damage NASAs orbiters. After all, a high-speed speck of comet dust could potentially crack a camera lens or permanently damage delicate electronic systems. So NASA officials decided to steer all three craft into a safe zone on the other size of the planet until the worst of the danger had passed.
But scientists also recognized that a flyby like this was a once-in-several-million-years event. So they put the spacecraft to work.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter trained three of its instruments -- the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, the Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars and the Context Camera - on the comet as it approached the Red Planet. Their goal was to get a clearer picture of Siding Springs nucleus and to examine the coma of dust and gas that surrounds it. The three instruments will continue to watch the comet for a few more days as it continues its flight toward the sun. (It will make its closest approach on Saturday.)
Mars Odyssey is expected to provide some pictures as well, courtesy of its Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS. In a few days, THEMIS will produce an image that combines the comet with part of Mars, according to a statement from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Chris Potts, manager of the Odyssey mission at JPL, confirmed Sunday that the spacecraft was able to carry out its scheduled observations within hours of the comets closest approach to Mars.
Both Odyssey and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were also assigned to collect data on the interaction between the comets dust and gas and the planets thin atmosphere. In that task, they were joined by MAVEN, the most recent addition to NASAs Mars fleet. MAVENs primary mission is to study the planets upper atmosphere, and it has a suite of instruments designed to examine the interface between the highest reaches of the Martian atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
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NASA spacecraft around Mars send back images of comet Siding Spring
Three spacecraft at Mars survived a close brush with a comet that buzzed by the Red Planet Sunday (Oct. 19), while scientists on Earth captured some amazing images of the comet's close pass.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) probe and Odyssey spacecraft appear to be in good health after hiding behind Mars as Comet Siding Springwhizzed 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) past the planet at high speed. The three spacecraft and two rovers NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity plus the two other probes at the Red Planet, were also charged with gathering information about the comet and its effect on Mars.
"We're glad the spacecraft came through, we're excited to complete our observations of how the comet affects Mars and we're eager to get to our primary science phase," MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement. [See photos of Comet Siding Spring]
People using telescopes captured some incredible images of Comet Siding Spring and Mars from Earth. One photo, from the Siding Spring Observatory, shows Mars as an extremely bright spot with the comet shining in blue at the center of the image. Background stars also fill the stunning image of the close approach.
"Working on three scopes at the Siding Spring Observatory, we hoped that between them, we'd get a great result," astronomer Nick Howes told Space.com of his plans to capture images of the comet. "When the images started coming in, we knew we had something special, just from the raw data. There's been a lot of great images taken today; we're just proud that the education-driven Tzec [Maun Foundation] took some of them."
Another image of the comet, taken from Spain by photographer Juan Miguel Gonzlez Polo, shows the comet (a circled green streak) flying toward Mars on Oct. 17 before its closest pass with the Red Planet.
The spacecraft at Mars had to take cover behind the planet because the speeding dust sloughed off by Comet Siding Spring could have posed a threat to the mechanisms of the probes. The comet was flying through space at 126,000 mph (203,000 km/h) relative to Mars, according to NASA.
The spacecraft's evasive maneuvers seemed to have worked, and all three of NASA's orbiting spacecraft managed to gather some data as the comet flew by. The spacecraft observed any changes to the Martian atmosphere that could have been caused by the comet's dust, and scientists were also hoping to gather data the could help them learn more about the
"The telemetry received from Odyssey this afternoon confirms not only that the spacecraft is in fine health but also that it conducted the planned observations of comet Siding Spring within hours of the comet's closest approach to Mars," Odyssey Mission Manager Chris Potts, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
Editor's Note: If you tracked Comet Siding Spring with a telescope and captured an image of the comet, let us know! You can send images and comments in to Space.com at: spacephotos@space.com.
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