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| Posted on: May 25 2006, 03:23 AM | |
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Wow! Great work! Is that the eastern rim of the South Pole-Aitken basin I can see to the left of Orientale? |
| Forum: Lunar Exploration · Post Preview: #55652 · Replies: 161 · Views: 327202 |
| Posted on: Apr 10 2006, 09:13 PM | |
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| Forum: Saturn · Post Preview: #50092 · Replies: 27 · Views: 45155 |
| Posted on: Mar 27 2006, 08:09 PM | |
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Quick and dirty with Celestia. This is fairly heavily jpeg reduced but you get the idea. It's quite a nice map and the two small white oval storms that have subsequently become Red Junior /Oval BA are nicely visible. Looks pretty cool alright spinning around. I'd post a video but avi's ain't allowed. [attachment=4745:attachment] If you want to post a video, you can upload it it to this website: http://rapidshare.de/ Then, all you need to do is post the resultant link here. |
| Forum: Jupiter · Post Preview: #47877 · Replies: 19 · Views: 25624 |
| Posted on: Mar 8 2006, 09:42 AM | |
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QUOTE What a very sad day .... London's Planetarium being closed down to make way for people getting "close to famous people" ? Close to wax models of famous people, that is, right? My GOD - the world is getting dumber by the minute. You would have thought there was enough of all that 'celebrity' bollocks on the television. So future generations of children will no longer be able to wonder at the the beautiful panorama of the night sky, and feel stimulated to enquire about the Universe we live in. Lord knows, with the ever-increasing light pollution, kids will no longer be able to see the stars for real either. This decision really sums up the increasingly shallow culture we are descending into. Dr. Brian May http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbjan06.html |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #44574 · Replies: 11 · Views: 11355 |
| Posted on: Jan 16 2006, 08:53 PM | ||
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There was me thinking that the Hubble evidence for the inner new ring was rather tenuous - Keck has just confirmed its existence: http://keckobservatory.org/news/science/05...anus/index.html |
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| Forum: Uranus and Neptune · Post Preview: #36367 · Replies: 20 · Views: 32492 |
| Posted on: Dec 15 2005, 04:42 AM | |
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| Forum: Earth Observations · Post Preview: #31392 · Replies: 20 · Views: 25604 |
| Posted on: Dec 15 2005, 02:56 AM | |
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| Forum: Earth Observations · Post Preview: #31384 · Replies: 20 · Views: 25604 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2005, 11:25 AM | ||
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 2 2005, 07:09 AM) You can, indeed, see Surveyor in the EVA 1 color pans from Apollo 12 -- the top two and a half feet of it, anyway. The solar panel and antenna, and a bit of the mast, were in sunlight, while the rest of Surveyor was in shadow during the first EVA. -the other Doug Although only the mast and solar panels were iilluminated by direct sunlight, the rest of Surveyor is visible thanks to reflected light from the western wall of the crater. I've attached a cropped version of a photo taken during EVA-1 showing Surveyor Crater (and the shadow of Intrepid in the foreground). I've brightened the area around the probe to show a bit more detail. It looks to me that the body of the spacecraft is clearly visible in the darkness: Ian. |
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| Forum: Image Processing Techniques · Post Preview: #29571 · Replies: 555 · Views: 309853 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2005, 11:17 AM | |
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| Forum: Image Processing Techniques · Post Preview: #29568 · Replies: 555 · Views: 309853 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2005, 11:13 AM | ||
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 1 2005, 04:22 PM) Thanks, Ian R - very nice images. I played with them a bit... possibly the uphill footpad imprints are visible - the 'second landing' set, also visible in the Surveyor 3 pan. The first landing set might be resolved (especially if the original neg could be used!) - but it would not be easy to identify them unambiguously on this. I'll post something on it later. Thanks again for a very nice view of this area. Phil You're welcome Phil. Glad to be of assistance. Here are a few other Apollo 12 photographs that might help you to pinpoint the exact position of the footpad imprints: AS12-48-7084 |
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| Forum: Image Processing Techniques · Post Preview: #29566 · Replies: 555 · Views: 309853 |
| Posted on: Dec 1 2005, 12:37 PM | |
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Here's a magnified view of Surveyor from Block Crater, made by combining a couple of photographs at 200%. |
| Forum: Image Processing Techniques · Post Preview: #29420 · Replies: 555 · Views: 309853 |
| Posted on: Dec 1 2005, 12:21 PM | ||
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Nov 24 2005, 02:59 PM) This is part of the reprocessed Surveyor 3 panorama showing the footpad imprints uphill from the landing point. According to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal the astronauts never mentioned seeing the uphill imprints at all. Their attention was solely on the spacecraft and regolith immediately around it (trenches, prints from the last little bounce). Phil, I don't know if this image is of any use (it's a crop of AS12-48-7144), but it's a pretty unique and interesting view of Surveyor, anyway. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/...2-48-7144HR.jpg Ian. |
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| Forum: Image Processing Techniques · Post Preview: #29418 · Replies: 555 · Views: 309853 |
| Posted on: Nov 15 2005, 11:53 PM | ||
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QUOTE [47.08] The topography of Iapetus' leading side There is an old 800 km impact basin centered at 270 degrees E, 40 degrees N with rim topography of more than 10 km extending over scales of 300-400 km http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v37n3/dps2005/82.htm Judging from this abstract, this should be the rough postion and extent of the large basin: |
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| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #27042 · Replies: 126 · Views: 112482 |
| Posted on: Nov 15 2005, 11:11 PM | |
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| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #27036 · Replies: 126 · Views: 112482 |
| Posted on: Nov 15 2005, 10:48 PM | |
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| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #27030 · Replies: 126 · Views: 112482 |
| Posted on: Nov 15 2005, 10:38 PM | |
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QUOTE (volcanopele @ Nov 15 2005, 10:32 PM) I don't know of a graphic available online, but it is described in Bernd's DPS abstract: http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v37n3/dps2005/82.htm Thanks Jason. |
| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #27028 · Replies: 126 · Views: 112482 |
| Posted on: Nov 15 2005, 10:15 PM | |
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QUOTE (volcanopele @ Nov 15 2005, 10:10 PM) hmmm, the quantization due to the stretch, the jpeg compression, and the 12-bit to 8-bit conversion does do a number on how much detail you can get out of these jpegs in the region illuminated by Saturn-shine. Not to mention the scattered light Jason, where can we find the topographical data from the January flyby that revealed the existence of the large basin? Thanks! |
| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #27023 · Replies: 126 · Views: 112482 |
| Posted on: Nov 14 2005, 01:46 PM | |
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| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #26763 · Replies: 126 · Views: 112482 |
| Posted on: Oct 17 2005, 03:58 PM | |
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Brilliant work Ted! Surely this has to be the definitive presentation of the best Iapetus images taken by Voyager. Thanks also to Rob and Deception for solving the Mystery of the Missing Impact Basin. Perhaps we could ask Emily or Jason if they could find out where the 850km basin is supposed to be located on the moon? |
| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #23766 · Replies: 30 · Views: 35574 |
| Posted on: Oct 16 2005, 02:05 AM | |
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| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #23688 · Replies: 62 · Views: 62765 |
| Posted on: Oct 7 2005, 02:40 PM | |
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Great work Rob! Due to the general lack of information on the internet with regards to the D-ring, this thread has been a joy to read. |
| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #22998 · Replies: 95 · Views: 160988 |
| Posted on: Oct 7 2005, 02:37 PM | |||
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For some reason, the big impact basin visible in Ted's picture (circled here in red) doesn't show up in Steve Albers' map of Iapteus. The large crater in the southern lighter terrain isn't there either. Is the map incorrect, or am I looking in the wrong places? http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/saturn...rgb_cyl_www.jpg |
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| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #22996 · Replies: 30 · Views: 35574 |
| Posted on: Oct 5 2005, 08:46 AM | |
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I took dilo's great animation of the Hyperion approach and modified it slightly, so that it plays constantly on a loop - backwards and forwards. This allows the viewer to get a better appreciation of the moon's complex topography. Well, it works for me anyway! ![]() |
| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #22782 · Replies: 200 · Views: 153148 |
| Posted on: Oct 1 2005, 12:15 AM | |
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Sep 7 2005, 10:14 AM) Ask Ted, and ye shall receive! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/050...eepimpact_f.jpg |
| Forum: Cometary and Asteroid Missions · Post Preview: #22401 · Replies: 11 · Views: 12999 |
| Posted on: Sep 29 2005, 11:52 PM | |
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Nice work Jason! |
| Forum: Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images · Post Preview: #22266 · Replies: 200 · Views: 153148 |
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