http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
+ read this thread.

Why would you not look for that information yourself? Don't know where to look ( err, google? ) or too lazy to bother looking?

The primates are onmy side, I had a word with them when I spent a day with some Lemurs last year. When they come to power - I'm sorted

Seen the #wonders comments on twitter? They are all utterly awesomely positive.

Part one was tonight on BBC2 and BBCHD.

It was, without question, the best hour of scientific programming I have ever seen.

Assuming no burn after capsule separation - I'd expect it to be in roughly the same place as the capsule

Don't get too excited - these are all old images - May '09 mostly.

For those wondering about the 3D wedges - it was a technique presented here a while ago by MaxSt
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=2456
On a pair of VST's from the PDS.

It's a real pity we don't have anything to convert PFB files - as they are merged terrain wedges for an entire site ( I think )

ANyhoo - that 3D movie convinced the guy who made the first Monkey Movie that he's wrong - read the comments!

A victory, for common sense, and data.

A little more Gorilla Takedown - using terrain wedges from near the 'Gorilla' to reconstruct the view from the Sol 87 position.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFGV2ktc-r4

Astonishingly, the guy who posted the Aug 2008 video is still denying I've explained it. I am doubtful my second video will convince him.

http://www.umsfawards.com/?p=111
For sharing the frustration, exhilaration, challenges and rewards of flight operations via marsandme.blogspot.com , Scott Maxwell wins the 3rd UMSF Spirit Award, the final award of the 2009 round!

At least Clive Anderson spotted the tracks and asked the question "Why didn't they take a picture right up next to the Gorilla"

They did Clive. They did

And that's why I usually don't leave comments turned on. Just.. WOW. So much desire to be uninformed.

I had to re-record the last two slides, and the fan heater in my shedoffice had turned on inbetween the two sections

A full 10 minute takedown
http://bit.ly/9cC06o

The Second Spirit Award goes to Veronica McGregor, the voice of @MarsPhoenix :

An agency as large and bureaucratic as NASA will always be resistant to things that are new, unknown or perhaps perceived as ‘trendy’. It is for pushing through those misconceptions and using these new means of communication so effectively, that Veronica McGregor wins the 2nd UMSF Spirit Award, for giving a little spacecraft a big voice and kick starting the new media revolution at JPL and NASA.

http://www.umsfawards.com/?p=104

Just one more to go tomorrow!

Well - anything starting 13 or less is great. I'm not sure they started imaging that way much before it was decided to head there thigh. CRX is 30km wide though - so we might be in luck.

It would error the same way- tge kernels are external to the images, and HiRISE data would simply be looking for the same missing data. The kernels are quite laggy getting into ISIS, way behind the imaging data.

Two more to go yet ( and I can hear the cogs of imagination and forecasting occurring in each and every mind reading this thread )

The announcements should automatically appear on the site at 1200UT (they are pre-scheduled blog entires) - and then I tweet a few minutes later.

For the P13 ob - ISIS is happy. For the other two, I don't think the kernels have hit the ISIS Rsync server, so I can't project them reliably. I'm going to fudge it assuming nadir-pointing.

Anything Rui has not named, will just call it Ultreya A through Z.

I've got those three CTX images downloading (140-250 meg each - and I generate about 4 times that in the CTX processing pipeline) - I'll squirt them out tomorrow...and SEE how hard it is to mosaic them within ISIS...but I wont spend to much time on that. I'll zip up PNGs or something and send you a link.

LOL indeed - the flybys so far have not even included imaging.

The image you direct link to without citation is from here
: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMIPX6K56G_0.html

Which then links to here
: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMIPX6K56G_1.html

Where we find out


So no - they've NOT released early pictures because that's an 18 month old , and they've not even TAKEN any with this new flyby sequence yet.

They'll be in here - http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/DTM/PSP/ - when they're done

Would projected CTX images be of use? The PDS released images are uncalibrated and unprojected, but I've got the process sorted in ISIS3, it's not too bad actualy, so if someone gives me the ob-ID, I'll get them map projected.

Ooo - does that put that color section inbetween my proposed target, and the previous ones straight over the columbia hills and Spirit's current location? We could end up with most of the traverse being documented in color, which would be very nice (and sort of a sensible thing to do anyway I would have thought)

Opportunity did us a favour by driving south, down HiRISE CCD paths.

Thanks for the details - I'm sure the selecting planning and sequencing is more complex than I'm imagining it. Keep us posted!

West Spur, however, is in that direction. 'Lookout Point' formally, is near Larrys Lookout, and I can't find any formal name for that hill. Notice they put it with a line pointing down and stopping at the top of that feature, they've not put the label ON it, like Home Plate and El Dorado. I don't think it's right to call it 'incorrectly labelled'.

Were I to label any feature on those pans as West Spur - I'd put it in exactly the same place as it is on both those JPL pans. Where would you put it?