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DART’s Final Images Prior to Impact
- 1970-01-01 4y agoDirect link to .PNG: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/penultimate_dart_0401930049_43695_0.png https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pe...
- an1sotropy 4y agoHas an incomplete image transmission ever been such an awesome proof of success? Also the prior complete image shows such a lot of cool structures.
- celias 4y agoReminds me a little of the loss of signal from Cassini as it burned up in Saturn's atmosphere as the final step in the Grand Finale https://youtu.be/B2XQLHDtkqw?t=3108 https://youtu.be/B2XQLHDtkqw?t=3108 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/mission/grand-finale/overview/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/mission/grand-...
- an1sotropy 4y agoOh that was a tearjerker. But Cassini had an incredible lifetime of doing so many great things, while DART says just “hello! ... YOLOooooo!”
- mikewarot 4y agoI was surprised that there were no motion artifacts in the images, and deduced it must be done with a global shutter ... sure enough I was right. "At the focal plane is a 2560 by 2160 pixel, panchromatic, front-side illuminated complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, with digital output, global shutter, and low read noise." Source: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SPIE10698E..1XF/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SPIE10698E..1XF/abstra...