Curiosity on Mars. Tackie yes or no? Bashny.Net

Today we will try to analyze and sort through popular fiction in the world wide web that if the rover Curiosity will not fly, and his pictures were taken in some desert of Arizona or Nevada. Details of exposure you will see under the cut. Reports of falsifying landing Curiosity to Mars appeared almost immediately after this triumphant event. Now such statements pougasli, but at first did not shun such things and say on TV.





Except for thought "like the Mojave", the first replica in favor of Arizona appeared on the third day of the mission, when Curiosity got the first color panorama. In one of the hillsides in the distance you can see the serpentine, in which some immediately recognized country road.



Of course, such things as the distance to this "road", they have not taken into account. They are not embarrassed that such a range width of the road to be a few hundred meters. Also, do not confused by the fact that such an oversight on the part of the global organization of conspirators looks like a figure of the extreme lack of professionalism of the conspirators.

In fact, this serpentine - not an optical illusion, and it really exists - it is the river bed, which arose when the flow of water broke through the outside of the crater Gale.



Just look at the satellite image to see this. White dots indicate the location of the rover at the time of planting, the blue - the current position.

In general - the best way to make sure Curiosity exactly where reported its creators - is to compare the landscapes that he sees on the surface and satellite data.

From time to time I spend such comparison and on a large scale:



And at close distances:



While all converge. If anyone doubts that at his disposal all the Google Earth and it can search for relevant landscapes in the American deserts.

True one flaw on the site NASA JPL yet been identified vigilant conspiracy. Is there a 3D map of the crater Gale, and in it there were signs of Ctrl + C Ctrl + V:



In anticipation of the imminent fall of the tyranny of NASA on Youtube was a wave of exposing commercials. But it quickly faded, as the majority did not care and those who are interested in the question, just double checked the satellite images. There's no trace of falsification of revealed:



Apparently Contractors NASA, which made the application for the site could not pull completely on the surface of a relief photo, and had to cover up the gaps.

The next reason for activating supporters gave the rover conspiracy when he made his own self-portrait.



The question "How does he himself sfotkal?" Is at the same level for boring next to the statement "Mars is not red," and jokes about oil and democracy.

But still persist are those who think that it is impossible to take a picture of yourself, even if you have a hand with two elbows, able to rotate 360 ​​degrees.

The first portrait, there is another detail that attracts attention everywhere who want to seek out revelations:



What it is? Are traces of the photographer, who forgot to sweep the conspirators before the shooting, did not notice at the time of the shooting, ignored during the gluing panoramas and posted in open access?

Of course this should not be. Next product, but not the legs, bucket and rover, which it produces soil sampling for research.



Okay. Having dealt with the "suspicious" pictures, we think: how would you could still see that Curiosity on Mars. Let's look at this animation of Sun Transit of Deimos.



Interested in this picture is the fact that we can see not only the companion, but the sunspots.



This animation was produced a year ago September 18. If you look at the face of the Sun, which was visible from Earth in the day, the picture did not match. At the time of the shooting, Mars was located about 100 degrees in the course of rotation of the Sun from the Earth. The speed of axial rotation of the sun 14, 5 degrees per day, so we can only see how sunspots observed Curiosity, slowly swim to the side visible from Earth.



Due to the location of the rover on the Martian surface, and the inclination of the axis of rotation of the planet, we see no sunspots at that angle, which oversees the satellite SDO, therefore, to determine whether the spots, it is necessary to turn the image of Curiosity.



If you wonder why bother to fake mission to Mars, where it can be implemented in reality, as the motivation of the conspirators, of course, be called money. Domestic conspiracy, brought up on covenants rollback and cut, it is believed that the rover will not fly, and $ 2, 5 billion. Nasovtsy "drank". And now misleading the whole world, for the short ride rover desert but draw pictures in the 3D-editor.

All this imaginary picture crumbles if to remind one simple fact - Curiosity rover is not American. More precisely, he is an American, but work with it, not only Americans. Who else? Well, for example, Russian.

Device DAN: Space Research Institute, Laboratory of cosmic gamma-ray spectroscopy.

And Canadians.
The spectrometer APXS: Canadian Space Agency, the University of New Brunswick and the University of Western Ontario.

Spaniards.
Climate station REMS: Astrobiology Center, National Institute of Aerospace Technology, National Research Council, Center for Industrial and Technological Development, the Ministry of Defence of Spain, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, University of Catalonia.

French.
Spectrometer ChemCam: Research Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology, National Centre for Space Studies of France.

Broadcast signals from Mars carried out not only at the station Deep Space Network NASA's Goldstone United States, but also on the receiving stations in Spain and Australia.
Even in the scientific activities involved the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Australian National University.

If you pay extra for all the silence, no billion is not enough. You could anything else be suspected if the Americans did not allow anyone to work with the rover, and in no hurry to share the materials that it receives. Meanwhile, NASA itself even invited to join the Mars mission. As it happens, for example, with the Russian instrument DAN. Our devices are working on a similar physical principles, and are bringing valuable scientific information on a Martian and a lunar orbiter NASA. Therefore, the Americans and offered to participate in our scientists, "onshore" project on a nearby planet.

But that's not all. In Martian orbit fly not only aids NASA, and ESA. Automatic interplanetary station Mars Express collected Europe and Russia launched more than 10 years ago. Since then it has been successfully working in the orbit of the Red Planet



When sat Curiosity, Mars Express helped in the transfer of data. And once he had the opportunity to send some photos obtained rover. Himself a rover by American orbiters handed over 80 thousand. Pictures. But ESA, passing multiple files, proudly wrote a press release about how it helps Martian curious traveler.

Speaking of 3D. There is such an enthusiast of Mars artist Nick Sotiriadis, who created a full photorealistic model of Opportunity. About as difficult and time-consuming process, and it does not just do the "fake" Martian photographs can be understood from his description of the work:

«After 5 years in the making (on and off, actual working time was about 3 years), 3 computer upgrades, a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of frustration and hundreds cups of coffee, the project is about to be finished.»

A forum thread of the Planetary Community of more than 30 pages of discussion, held from 2006 to 2012-th can be viewed as a time-consuming process of creation took a single photo:



In sum, all the factors are allowed to be sure that Curiosity is exactly where it should be. His work continues, Mars reveals its secrets, and generates new puzzles.



Source: habrahabr.ru