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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ Image Showcases

Posted by: chris Jan 8 2010, 04:37 PM

It has been a long time since I have posted here, so hello again...

Over New Year, I was talking to some friends about the delights of viewing images downloaded from Cassini and the rovers
and MGS (etc, etc). I was asked to provide some links so that people could have a look at what I talking about.

I'd like to make a gentle introduction to the delights of the imagery, rather that throwing people in the deep end by
going straight to the raw image downloads, so...

Can you recommend a good starting point for images from our robotic friends? Ideally, stunning images that make people
go "wow", and want to dig deeper.

Thanks in advance...

Chris

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Jan 8 2010, 04:52 PM

Off the top of my head:

Ted Stryk's work
http://www.strykfoto.org/

James Canvin's work
http://www.nivnac.co.uk/mer/

Daniel Crotty's work
http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/

Posted by: machi Jan 8 2010, 05:17 PM

Another wonderfull places (not only for Mars):

Ugordan's work (Saturn, Jupiter and others):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan/

MikeMalaska's work (Saturn system, Titan, Mars and others):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/

Jason Perry work (Io):
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/io_images/

Hortonheardawho's work (MER):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/

Posted by: Ian R Jan 8 2010, 05:17 PM

You cannot go wrong with Gordan's Flickr photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan/

HEALTH ADVISORY: May cause dehydration due to excessive drooling.

Posted by: stevesliva Jan 8 2010, 05:29 PM

Any time the Big Picture does space:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/05/cassini_nears_fouryear_mark.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/martian_skies.html

Posted by: Juramike Jan 8 2010, 05:59 PM

A few more off the top of my head...

Riding with Robots on the High Frontier group flickr page(no longer active):
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ridingwithrobots/

Wanderingspace blog:
http://wanderingspace.net/

Ted Stryk's Planetary images from Then and Now blog:
http://planetimages.blogspot.com/

Emily's blog:
http://planetary.org/blog

And VP's blog:
http://gishbar.blogspot.com/

And Stu's blog:
http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Jan 8 2010, 06:17 PM

Let's not forget Doug's killer 3D work:

http://www.dougellison.com/

as well as Doug's http://vimeo.com/4432230

Posted by: elakdawalla Jan 8 2010, 07:26 PM

Lights in the Dark attempts to replace Riding with Robots.
http://lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/

Posted by: machi Jan 8 2010, 10:05 PM

Another goodies:

Björn Jónsson homepage
http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/

and

Dr. Schenk's 3D House of Satellites
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com/

Posted by: ngunn Jan 8 2010, 11:06 PM

Not to be forgotten - I've always liked these versions.
http://www.awalkonmars.com/

Posted by: chris Jan 11 2010, 10:31 AM

Excellent suggestions from everyone.

Thank you all very much!

Chris

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