Payload away - I'll be home in an hr to hopefully do some tracking

Active in either case - they will have to tell MRO / MODY to listen. In Lazerus mode I THINK PHX is sat there waiting for a Proximity 1 Hail. Not sure though.

BallastHalo3 launching in a few hours. Should fly south across the UK testing ballast dropping method for a potential zero-pressure balloon for a trans atlantic attempt. I hope to get home in time to track the later part of the flight.

http://ukhas.org.uk/guides:tracking_guide

Raw packets here - http://www.robertharrison.org/listen/view.php (look out for M6DGE, that's me)
Tracked data hopefully here - http://spacenear.us/tracker/
Log of loggers here - http://www.robertharrison.org/listen/loggers.php

I had a bit of a tip off so not really creditable to my eyeballs.

Seriously - this girl is invincible.

Sol 2113 - FHAZ - RF wheel.

Motion.

Not a lighting change. Motion.

Not a typo. RF wheel.

It was so cloudy - I couldn't even see the clouds. Just horizon to horizon of total nothing.

sNNNN worked in brightening up the resultant 16 bit PNG - but it's got stair stepping in there, where I wouldn't expect it to be.
In an ideal world - I'd have a 16bit PNG that goes from black (low) to white (high) and a text file telling me the actual altitude range between top and bottom so I can scale them appropriately. DAMN - I should have been a code monkey.

It's doable via ISIS3 I think - but ISIS is playing hardball with me today and not even letting me do USGS DEM isis2raw processing. Grrrrr.

9 years? You think I'd have learnt to grow up by now

Bingo - Feb 2001

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missi...ics_010228.html

Are they the first 'bootleg postcards' in the specialist press?

YEARS and years ago - probably 3, 4 maybe years before UMSF - I did some mosaics of NEAR images that made it to space.com Probably my first 'public' stitching work

Another data set, another IMG2PNG challenge

http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/DTM/...SP_002686_1410/

I THING they're 32 bit IMG's - any chance of a tweak and recompile - IMG2PNG goes "Errm - excuse me, these are more than 16bit" and happily produces a 16 bit PNG anyway - which does have the image data in there, but it's stuck right down at the bottom of the histogram and stretching it to get some sensible displacement, I can see that it's got stair-stepping much like using 8 bit displacement maps.

Images every 0.1s - slowed significantly in that animation - not surprising it comes across as 'slow'.

Nice cover image what with New Horizons flying a few hundred KM's over a massively exaggerated Valles Marineris

umm - yeah.

Well - the Daily Mail, not my favorite newspaper - picked up on the Norway Spiral - they emailed to ask questions, get more info about it - and I don't think they did too bad a job of it really.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...ssile-test.html

It also doesn't attract viewers. It wouldn't have got the 400,000+ viewers I've got via Youtube

Let's see if we actually get a proper organisation with proper funding.....or simply an umbrella title for the same chaotic mess we already have.

I wish I could have left comments on - but for some reason youtube wouldn't let me reply or add my own comments - and the ammount of troll-like commenting that happened in the first 5 minutes of it being live was unreal.

My ego doesn't need work

I kept shouting through to my colleagues in the next office "130,000"

What a Nerd, they said..

Nahh - a geek. With nearly 200,000 views on You Tube

It's gone a bit viral Nearly 200,000 views between the first and second version, cited on a lot of blogs, and picked up by The Daily Mail, and I just got off the phone with Discovery Channel, Canada, who want to use it in their 'Daily Planet' science show.

Universe Today picked up the story and ran with a simulation I did of what might cause a spiral effect
http://www.youtube.com/user/unmannedspacef...u/0/Zx8i5EfmYU4

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/wh...-norway-spiral/

They can't move both IDD and wheels at the same time - I think they may be tied on the same power distro. board.

Remember - they were only specified for 90 sols of driving, approx 600-1000 metres.

They have both done many many times that. So it's only fair to say that the motors have far outperformed their requirements.

Brushless are a newer technology, a more complex technology, and are heavier

http://starsys.spacedev.com/starsysproduct...rticle.asp?id=1

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/2014/38930

For what was required - brushed was the proven choice.

Via @HiCommander

With only two days exposure, rather than two weeks of the previous HDF's.

And...there....were..... FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILES!

(I always resented the bass-part going down on that cadence rather than up)