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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Dec 28 2009, 07:15 PM)  Well the anniversary calendar That calendar has absolutely nothing to do with the 6th Earth Anniversary and has been available for >9 months. Invaluable though it is, I am at a total loss as to why you would post it in this thread. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #152520 · Replies: 21 · Views: 30829 |
| Posted on: Dec 24 2009, 06:36 PM | |
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Happy Christmas all - I've got an unusually busy week ahead, so I may not be around too much - but '09's been a cracking year for UMSF - here's hoping we can have great 2010! |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #152423 · Replies: 20 · Views: 12607 |
| Posted on: Dec 24 2009, 12:33 AM | |
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UMSF Invision Board 2009 Stats. Top Three Attachments : http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=139043 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=142504 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=142917 New Registrations - 435 New Threads - 581 New Posts - 18,554 Thread Views - 1,406,444 UMSF.com AWStats Unique Visitors 387,000 Visits : 911,297 Page Views : 6,886,486 Hits : 47,133,446 Bandwidth : 380.54 GB Plus a further 12,336,448 pages 12,704,607 hits and 195.94 GB by Search Engines etc. Views per sub-forum Spirit 332059 Opportunity 214477 LRO & LCROSS 122768 Titan 88558 Mars 77919 Chit Chat 68107 Cassini General 48286 Conferences, Publications and Broadcasts 45166 Telescopic Observations 44740 Icy Moons 34441 Jupiter 30810 MRO 2005 28305 Earth Observations 26932 Lunar Exploration 26427 Tech, General and Imagery 24701 MSL 2011 23358 Uranus and Neptune 16242 Image Processing Techniques 16168 Messenger 15136 Sun 14740 Phoenix 14665 Cometary and Asteroid Missions 11386 Past and Future 11341 Exploration Strategy 10088 Forum Management 10053 Admin and Mod 9721 Front Page Stories 8386 Private Missions 6133 Venus 5168 Saturn 4981 Voyager and Pioneer 4281 Mars Express & Beagle 2 3957 Pluto / KBO 3534 Mars Odyssey 1990 Mercury 1420 Total 1,406,444 |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #152391 · Replies: 19 · Views: 14757 |
| Posted on: Dec 23 2009, 06:35 PM | |
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Spirits were mainly at night, so not DD related either. |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #152368 · Replies: 916 · Views: 424873 |
| Posted on: Dec 21 2009, 03:17 PM | |
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Anyone for popcorn  |
| Forum: Titan · Post Preview: #152258 · Replies: 192 · Views: 143692 |
| Posted on: Dec 21 2009, 02:25 PM | |
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And a second set from Dec 15th |
| Forum: Mars Express & Beagle 2 · Post Preview: #152255 · Replies: 274 · Views: 616996 |
| Posted on: Dec 21 2009, 01:51 PM | |
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09_349 as well... |
| Forum: Mars Express & Beagle 2 · Post Preview: #152253 · Replies: 274 · Views: 616996 |
| Posted on: Dec 21 2009, 01:38 PM | |
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09_352 (Dec 18th) Low Flyover Mosaic - GREAT sequencing boys, I think there's possibly a better flatfield to be made out of this as well! |
| Forum: Mars Express & Beagle 2 · Post Preview: #152250 · Replies: 274 · Views: 616996 |
| Posted on: Dec 20 2009, 02:52 PM | |
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I knew it would happen - the moment someone expresses the price of a mission as multiples or fractions of something, someone steps in with an entirely irrelevant movie reference, and someone steps in with a manned v unmanned reference. Three posts deleted. |
| Forum: Titan · Post Preview: #152179 · Replies: 192 · Views: 143692 |
| Posted on: Dec 20 2009, 02:31 PM | |
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FWIW - Using ISIS3 I've now got these converting fine. PDS2ISIS, ISIS2RAW, then import to Photoshop as mentioned in the HiRISE DEM thread. |
| Forum: Image Processing Techniques · Post Preview: #152177 · Replies: 133 · Views: 1805616 |
| Posted on: Dec 19 2009, 10:56 AM | |
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You're not sure if you should mention politics. Really? |
| Forum: Sun · Post Preview: #152123 · Replies: 96 · Views: 261983 |
| Posted on: Dec 18 2009, 06:46 PM | |
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There are many other tools for revealing the date and time information from image file names. I can imagine no reason why someone following the rovers wouldn't do so via MMB however ( unless they were not on a Win or Mac platform ) |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #152090 · Replies: 916 · Views: 424873 |
| Posted on: Dec 18 2009, 09:13 AM | |
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We could play what-if till the cows come up. Not using a wheel known to be dead, when further usage could endanger it's motor controller bed-fellows was the right thing to do at the time. The only appropriate time to reverse that decision would be an in extremis situation, where the risk of damage to other components is worth the chance of finding the wheel working once more, which is what we have now. It may even transpire that the wheel has given is all it can already and may never turn again. Trying to second guess a decision making process with 3 years of hindsight is, to be honest, silly. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #152051 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 18 2009, 08:28 AM | |
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QUOTE (fredk @ Dec 18 2009, 05:15 AM) We've only been doing this for nearly 6 years and people still fall for this old gem? Images are not necessarily downlinked on the order they are taken. Why anyone would fall for it when MMB exists is beyond me |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #152049 · Replies: 916 · Views: 424873 |
| Posted on: Dec 17 2009, 12:18 PM | |
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Dec 17 2009, 11:19 AM) 5mm forward, Wow! QUOTE but about 7mm down Woah! Pictures are required |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #151995 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 17 2009, 08:29 AM | |
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It's not good. A whole swathe of scientists and engineers and out reachers etc are going to leave. And they wont ever come back. Unfortunately it's impossible to say much more without breaking forum guidelines - http://twitter.com/profbriancox is probably the 'point man' on the issue. |
| Forum: Exploration Strategy · Post Preview: #151979 · Replies: 21 · Views: 32999 |
| Posted on: Dec 17 2009, 12:05 AM | |
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Not exactly a scoop - it's there for anyone to see on the PCDT. CODE 02097 p1140.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 front_hazcam_rat_doc_sbfrm_4bpp_crit 02097 p1140.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 front_hazcam_rat_doc_sbfrm_4bpp_crit 02097 p1141.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 front_haz_idd_rat_doc_512x512x1_bpp_high 02097 p1141.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 front_haz_idd_rat_doc_512x512x1_bpp_high 02097 p1141.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 front_haz_idd_rat_doc_512x512x1_bpp_high 02097 p1145.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 front_hazcam_rat_doc_sbfrm_4bpp |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #151967 · Replies: 916 · Views: 424873 |
| Posted on: Dec 16 2009, 11:28 PM | |
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Any one of a thousand possible reasons. Have a perusal through 12 months (nearly) of Scott's 5 year retrospective blog and you'll see the complexity involved at every step. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #151963 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 15 2009, 08:19 PM | |
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10,000 words / mm Get typing. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #151899 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 15 2009, 08:01 PM | |
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It's a case of trying and experimenting and simulating and then biasing sequences to what appears to work best. That experimentation might occur mainly in the ISIL or on Mars - or both. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #151897 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 14 2009, 09:10 PM | |
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QUOTE (Keatah @ Dec 14 2009, 08:08 PM) I would think that a brushless motor *still* would have been the better choice, 8 years ago - they were not ready to fly. The decision they made would have been the right one at the time. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #151837 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 14 2009, 09:08 PM | |
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I got it to 48.8570,0.2401 - 427km It burst not long later. |
| Forum: Private Missions · Post Preview: #151836 · Replies: 225 · Views: 228634 |
| Posted on: Dec 14 2009, 07:50 PM | |
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Leaning out the window - one packet at a time - I managed to get 339km range. going to try and see if I can do better, but not hopefull |
| Forum: Private Missions · Post Preview: #151823 · Replies: 225 · Views: 228634 |
| Posted on: Dec 14 2009, 07:48 PM | |
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How could it move? They told it to. |
| Forum: Spirit · Post Preview: #151822 · Replies: 992 · Views: 639260 |
| Posted on: Dec 14 2009, 05:56 PM | |
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Currently getting good packets from 213km range on 10mW Sweet!Yagi's just jammed in the window - not even on a good bearing and there's buildings in the way |
| Forum: Private Missions · Post Preview: #151814 · Replies: 225 · Views: 228634 |
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