by johnnydeep » Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:25 pm
Mathew32df wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 4:05 am
Sorry but the photo is a bit blurry, do you have a clearer picture?
Apparently, that's as good as it's going to get. It was taken by the LICIACube CubeSat craft which was part of the hardware assemblage of the larger DART spacecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICIACube wrote:
LICIACube
Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube, IPA: [ˈli.t͡ʃi.əˌkjuːb][1]) is a six-unit CubeSat of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). LICIACube is a part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and carries out observational analysis of the Didymos asteroid binary system after DART's impact on Dimorphos. It communicates directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta and plume of DART's impact as well as having done asteroidal study during its flyby of the Didymos system from a distance of 56.7 km (35.2 mi), 165 seconds after DART's impact.[2]
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Scientific payload
LICIACube is equipped with two optical cameras for conducting asteroidal reconnaissance during flyby, dubbed LEIA (LICIACube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid), a Catadioptric camera, a narrow field of view (FoV) of 2.06°, 25 microradian/pixel, 2048x2048 pixels, monochrome, achieving a best resolution of 1.38 m/pix at closest approach) camera, and LUKE (LICIACube Unit Key Explorer), a wide 5° FoV imaging camera with an RGB Bayer pattern infrared filter. These captured scientific data revealing the composition of the asteroid and provided data for its autonomous system by finding and tracking the asteroid throughout the encounter. As it was released when DART sped up for its intentional impact, it took an image every 6 seconds during DART's impact period. It had preliminary flyby targets including taking 3 high resolution images revealing the asteroid's morphology concentrating on the physics of the asteroid and plume generations after impact. This may help characterise the consequences of the impact.[4]
I might have hoped the imaging system on LICIACube could have produced a better image, but I guess it can't. Why? I'll leave that to be answered by those more knowledgeable than I am. But even the images of Dimorphos taken by the larger DART impact craft while approaching Dimorphos before impact only became really clear when it got
really close.
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[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220929.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_220929.jpg[/img] [size=150]DART Asteroid Impact from Space[/size][/url]
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Sorry but the photo is a bit blurry, do you have a clearer picture?
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Apparently, that's as good as it's going to get. It was taken by the LICIACube CubeSat craft which was part of the hardware assemblage of the larger DART spacecraft.
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[b][size=150]LICIACube[/size][/b]
Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube, IPA: [ˈli.t͡ʃi.əˌkjuːb][1]) is a six-unit CubeSat of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). LICIACube is a part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and carries out observational analysis of the Didymos asteroid binary system after DART's impact on Dimorphos. It communicates directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta and plume of DART's impact as well as having done asteroidal study during its flyby of the Didymos system from a distance of 56.7 km (35.2 mi), 165 seconds after DART's impact.[2]
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[b][size=150]Scientific payload[/size][/b]
LICIACube is equipped with two optical cameras for conducting asteroidal reconnaissance during flyby, dubbed LEIA (LICIACube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid), a Catadioptric camera, a narrow field of view (FoV) of 2.06°, 25 microradian/pixel, 2048x2048 pixels, monochrome, achieving a best resolution of 1.38 m/pix at closest approach) camera, and LUKE (LICIACube Unit Key Explorer), a wide 5° FoV imaging camera with an RGB Bayer pattern infrared filter. These captured scientific data revealing the composition of the asteroid and provided data for its autonomous system by finding and tracking the asteroid throughout the encounter. As it was released when DART sped up for its intentional impact, it took an image every 6 seconds during DART's impact period. It had preliminary flyby targets including taking 3 high resolution images revealing the asteroid's morphology concentrating on the physics of the asteroid and plume generations after impact. This may help characterise the consequences of the impact.[4][/quote]
I might have hoped the imaging system on LICIACube could have produced a better image, but I guess it can't. Why? I'll leave that to be answered by those more knowledgeable than I am. But even the images of Dimorphos taken by the larger DART impact craft while approaching Dimorphos before impact only became really clear when it got [b]really [/b]close.