Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet
Fred Jansen: Kako sleteti na kometu
As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen is in charge of the project that could be instrumental in uncovering clues to the origins of life on Earth. Full bio
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of the Rosetta spacecraft.
svemirske letelice Rozeta.
svemirske sonde na nju
for the past two years.
u poslednje dve godine.
about the origin of the solar system.
o postanku Sunčevog sistema.
four and a half billion years,
4,5 milijarde godina,
our sun formed and ignited.
i upalilo se naše sunce.
as planets, comets and asteroids formed.
kao planete, komete i asteroide.
a bit after its formation,
nedugo posle svog nastanka,
and delivered water to Earth.
i donele vodu na Zemlju.
complex organic material to Earth,
i složeni organski materijal
the emergence of life.
to solve a 250-piece puzzle
rešavanjem slagalice od 250 delova,
like Jupiter and Saturn,
where they are now,
of the solar system clean,
Sunčevog sistema,
called the Kuiper Belt,
Kajperov pojas,
beyond the orbit of Neptune.
iza Neptunove orbite.
run into each other,
pulls them back into the solar system.
privlači nazad u Sunčev sistem.
as we see them in the sky.
kakve vidimo na nebu.
is that in the meantime,
da su u međuvremenu,
on the outside of the solar system,
Sunčevog sistema
našeg sunčevog sistema.
which is blown away by the solar wind.
koju raznosi solarni vetar.
which is charged particles,
naelektrisanih čestica,
in the solar system.
u sunčevom sistemu.
which here is too small to see,
ovde premali da be se video,
that in the case of Rosetta,
da je u slučaju Rozete
u tom središnjem pikselu.
away from the comet.
20, 30, 40 km od komete.
from which our solar system was formed,
od koga je nastao naš sunčev sistem,
za proučavanje komponenti
when Earth, and life, started.
kada su Zemlja i život nastajali.
which may have bootstrapped life.
koji su možda pokrenuli život.
its long-term Horizon 2000 program,
dugoročni program "Horajzon 2000",
which would be a mission to a comet.
misija na kometu.
what you see here, Giotto, was launched,
na kometu letelicom Đoto koju vidite ovde
with an armada of other spacecraft.
Halejeve komete sa grupom letelica.
it became immediately clear
postalo je odmah jasno
to understand our solar system.
da bi se razumeo naš sunčev sistem.
was approved in 1993,
to be launched in 2003,
with an Ariane rocket.
in its enthusiasm,
je u svom entuzijazmu
1,000 Delft Blue plates
That's the positive part.
porcelan. To je dobra strana.
Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Čurjumov-Gerasimenko.
be able to get to it,
da stignete do nje,
in the solar system too long.
predugo u Sunčevom sistemu.
in the solar system since 1959.
u Sunčevom sistemu od 1959.
when it was deflected by Jupiter,
to the sun to start changing.
da bi počela da se menja.
u nekoliko stvari.
koji je orbitirao oko komete
its whole tour through the solar system --
kroz Sunčev sistem -
as we will see in August,
kao što ćemo videti u avgustu,
using something which is not
oko komete pomoću nečega
where you point and where you are.
i znate gde ciljate i gde se nalazite.
at landmarks on the comet.
obeležja na kometi.
boulders, craters --
stene, kratere -
respective to the comet.
u odnosu na kometu.
to go beyond the orbit of Jupiter
stigao izvan Jupiterove orbite
than it actually is,
nego što zaista jeste,
to use radio isotope thermal generators
radioizotopne termoelektrične generatore
so there was no choice.
tako da nije bilo izbora.
specially selected small people.
specijalno odabrani mali ljudi.
65 square meters.
od 65 kvadratnih metara.
when we got to the comet,
kad smo stigli do komete,
is not always a very handy choice.
nije uvek baš zgodan izbor.
for the Rosetta scientific objectives
zbog Rosetinih naučnih ciljeva
of the Earth to the sun --
od Zemlje do Sunca -
than we could achieve with fuel,
nego što smo mogli postići s gorivom,
much fuel as the whole spacecraft weighed.
šest puta više od težine letelice.
at very low altitude,
veoma nisko,
of that planet around the sun for free.
oko Sunca od te planete.
we did twice Earth again,
pa opet dvaput sa Zemljom
Lutetia and Steins.
Lutecije i Stajnsa.
that if the spacecraft got into trouble,
od Sunca, da se letelica našla u nevolji
save the spacecraft anymore,
except for one clock.
and the way this works.
i kako to funkcioniše.
the circle where we started,
more and more and more elliptical,
doing the rendezvous maneuvers.
sa manevrima za susret.
took a few pictures to test our cameras.
i napravili nekoliko slika
that word didn't exist. (Laughter)
(Smeh)
by the CIVA camera.
and the solar array in the distance.
i solarnu ploču.
of hibernation in January 2014,
u januaru 2014,
from the comet in May.
the spacecraft had was much too fast.
faster than the comet, so we had to brake.
pa smo morali da kočimo.
some of them were really big.
bili zaista veliki.
by a few hundred kilometers per hour,
za nekoliko stotina kilometara na čas
was seven hours,
hours, because in 2007,
jer 2007. godine
of the propulsion of Rosetta,
u pogonskom sistemu Rozete
operating at a pressure
or qualified for.
and these were the first pictures we saw.
i ovo su bile prve slike koje smo videli.
is 12 and a half hours,
komete je 12 i po sati,
our flight dynamics engineers thought,
inženjeri dinamike leta pomislili
an easy thing to land on.
of spud-like thing
možda je glatko.
(Smeh)
it was clearly unavoidable:
in all the detail you could get,
mapu ovog tela,
which is 500 meters in diameter and flat.
ravnu površinu od 500m u prečniku.
we have on landing the probe.
možemo da napravimo pri sletanju sonde.
and we mapped the comet.
i napravili mapu komete.
called photoclinometry.
zvanu fotoklinometrija.
sitting on the surface of the comet,
roughly what the shape of that rock is.
kog je oblika taj kamen.
and you can map the comet.
i napraviti mapu komete.
starting in August.
počevši od avgusta.
of 100 kilometers on a side
od 100km sa strane,
thing at 50 kilometers.
at all kinds of angles,
komete iz svih uglova
to map the whole thing.
da napravimo celu mapu.
of landing sites.
to go from the mapping of the comet
the final landing site, was 60 days.
za sletanje, trajao je 60 dana.
the average Mars mission
for years to meet
da se stotine naučnika složi
konačno mesto za sletanje
for Rosetta to launch Philae.
za Rozetu da lansira File.
has to be at the right point in space,
bude na određenom mestu u svemiru
because the lander is passive.
jer je lender pasivan.
and moves towards the comet.
i krene prema kometi.
at Philae while it was departing
of the whole trajectory was seven hours.
by one centimeter per second,
za jedan centimetar u sekundi,
za 252 metra.
one centimeter per second,
better than 100 meters
s odstupanjem manjim od 100m
some of the science and the instruments.
neke od instrumenata.
of all the instruments,
o svim instrumentima,
we can measure dust particles,
da izmerimo čestice prašine,
an instrument which measures gas density
koji meri gustinu gasa
is September of last year.
prošle godine.
which in itself is not surprising,
što samo po sebi nije iznenađujuće,
on the evaporation of gas
na isparavanje gasa
and then cools down on the back side.
a onda se hladi sa druge strane.
the density variations of this.
and the organic compounds
much more to come,
going on in Houston at the moment
konferencija u Hjustonu,
mnogi od ovih rezultata.
look very impressive,
naročito impresivno,
when they saw this.
kad su to videli.
and they shot it with tantalum
i ubrizgali joj tantal
the concentration of these two materials
koncentracija ta dva materijala
which materials were there
koji materijali su bili tu
elements is the imaging.
elemenata je slikanje.
the OSIRIS camera,
of Science magazine
this body to look like this.
izgledati ovako.
more like the Half Dome in Yosemite
na granitnu kupolu
on the righthand side, wind-blown shadows.
što liči na senke vetra.
but this comet doesn't have an atmosphere,
ali ova kometa nema atmosferu,
a wind-blown shadow.
senka od vetra.
a lot to investigate.
puno toga za istraživanje.
you see in the middle a pit.
if you carefully look,
of the bottom of that pit.
is where the active regions are,
se nalaze aktivne oblasti,
evaporates into space.
in the neck of the comet.
se nalazi na vratu komete.
and it's two and a half meters wide.
i široka dva i po metra.
which hammer in the ground and drill, etc.
koje udaraju u tlo, buše itd.
because you want to compare
zato što želite da uporedite
with what you find on the comet.
sa onim što nađete na kometi.
ground truth measurements.
and further away from Rosetta.
taken at 60 meters by the lander,
koju je napravio lender na 60m ,
before we landed on the comet.
pre nego što smo sleteli na kometu.
but from a different perspective,
ali iz druge perspektive
from the bottom-left to the middle
od donjeg desnog ugla ka sredini lendera
over the surface of the comet.
and an after image of the landing.
there is no lander.
je taj što nema lendera.
at the right-hand side of this image,
desnu stranu ove slike,
but it had bounced.
ali je poskočio.
to have a lander which would bounce.
da ima lender koji bi se odbijao.
it was way too expensive.
in the magnetometers,
from the three axes, x, y and z.
s tri ose: x, y i z.
is during the first bounce,
prilikom prvog odbijanja
with one of the legs of the lander,
sa jednom nogom lendera
of the lander changed.
the iconic images of Rosetta.
snimaka Rozete.
a leg of the lander,
noga lendera,
images of space science I have ever seen.
najboljih slika svemirske nauke ikada.
is to actually find the lander.
da uradimo jeste da nađemo lender.
is where we know it must be.
znamo da mora da bude.
but the search is continuing,
ali traženje se nastavlja,
the lander to work again.
da ponovo osposobimo lender.
and somewhere in April,
we found on the comet:
a very big rock, but it's not.
veoma veliki kamen, ali nije.
in June, July, August last year
u junu, julu i avgustu prošle godine
a second leaving this comet:
će odlaziti sa komete:
250 TV crews in Germany.
apsolutno ludilo, 250 TV ekipa u Nemačkoj.
who was following me all day
koja me je pratila celog dana,
for the whole day.
when leaving the control room,
kontrolnu sobu
and I still feel this.
landing day without crying,
a da ne zaplačem
I would like to leave you.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Fred Jansen - Space explorerAs manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen is in charge of the project that could be instrumental in uncovering clues to the origins of life on Earth.
Why you should listen
Fred Jansen manages the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, which guided a probe into orbit around a comet and dispatched a lander to its surface -- both firsts in space exploration. Although the lander Philae could not accomplish its full mission before going into hibernation, the data it’s already gathered will immeasurably multiply our knowledge of comets and their contributions to the ingredients of life on Earth.
In addition to his work with the Rosetta Mission, Jansen oversees the ESA’s XMM-Newton, an orbiting x-ray space observatory delving into the most elusive secrets of the universe, including black holes and dark matter.
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