Safari works perfectly here.

Pete Smith just used Astro0's 'Phoenix Attempts another sample delivery' image GREAT response

Youch
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets...ERONET_La_Jolla

(and good luck with the Hernia np - you might come out bionic with the weave matting they use to hold them in place!)

Doug

http://www.sstd.rl.ac.uk/C1xs/C1_Launch.htm.



Just added some details here : http://www.dougellison.com/?p=30

I prepared this for someone else - thought forum people might enjoy it

1) Install ISIS 3 - instructions here http://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/document...uide/index.html
2) While letting that happen - grab one of Randy's DEM's - I'm using the Victoria Crater bundle as an example
3) Find DEM_1m_VictoriaCrater.cub.gz (it's in the ISIS_EQUI360_OC folder ) and expand it
4) Run isis2raw
5) In the 'FROM' window - point to the .cub
6) Copy and paste the path and filename into 'TO' - but change the extension to .dem or something simiar
7) U16BIT data type ( screenshot attached)
8) Hit Run.... if this bit doesn't work - it's almost certainly your ISIS3 installation that needs looking at, make sure you got all the Base Data.
9) Find the .cub and open in text edit and find this part...

/* Core description */
CORE_ITEMS = (1278,1694,1)

10) Open Photoshop, and open the .dem.raw that ISIS3 produced
11) Width is the first of those three figure under CORE_ITEMS. Height is the second. Depth should be 16 bits, Byte Order as IBM PC, Header as size 0
12) Hit OK
13) Save out as 16 bit PNG, celebrate, have lunch, dump into your favourite animation package.

Sounds like the hatch-battening was for stormy reasons


http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/blogsPost.php?bID=254


Doug

a book

Maybe not. BUT - a science paper, yes.

Doug

There are email addresses and phone numbers on the bottom of every press release. So the answer is yes....you can.

Starting right now.

1100 megaBITS

Which is 137 megaBYTES

Just collection one of these http://www.trustedreviews.com/displays/rev...-LCD-Monitor/p1

VERY happy with preliminary results. The only way to get more real estate at a more professional level is the crazy prices £3k+ (for which I'm not prepared to ebay a lung to buy). The Dell and Samsung are very similar spec, but another £300 on top of what I just got that for

There are actually hot pixels visible in lots of images, but when there is more details to them, they get lost within the detail.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0810/09marsodyssey/

OK - yes - this is a Mars Odyssey story

BUT

This could have quite an impact on MER operations - there will be less time to do a days driving before having to stop for the MODY UHF relay pass on average. I wonder if this has been considered?

If the power situation is good on Opportunity - it is the time between uplink and downlink that is the limiting factor on driving, given CPU intensive stuff to do the advanced roving techniques.

I wonder if they can transition to MRO, which is typically an hour later, or even more MEX relays.

Actual motion blur - love it http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00121207.jpg

Yay - cleared for public release


http://dougellison.com/c1xs/c1xs_edited_h264_small.mov 9.3 meg small version
http://dougellison.com/c1xs/c1xs_edited_MP4.mp4 - 50 meg 720p High Def MP4 version

A press release will probably follow, along with the movies going up on the RAL C1XS website.


Doug

It's the dune that was at the entry to Duck Bay.

Nor do I - that's just your average meteor streak.

Errr, NO. Very no.

"008 QS11 (classified as an Apollo-type NEO) will reach on 02 October 2008 the minimum distance from Earth (0.02767 A.U.) "

That's about 4 million km, or 10 times the earth-moon distance.

Absofrickinlutely

(and absofrickinlutely should absofrickinlutely be in the dictionary)

I just finished doing some quick little animations for the C1XS team. It's not a great 3d model of Chandrayaan-1 (it was quite hard to get good details) but the X-Ray spectrometer looks good thanks to help from RAL. It's a bit annoying that the quality of bump maps/textures for the moon is much worse than for Mars - we need this flotilla (Kaguya, Chang-e 1, Chandrayaan-1 and LRO ) to do their thing before we can have realistic data to make better animations . Meanwhile -a few stills attached, I'll leave it up to the C1XS team to release the finished thing. No - it's not vacuuming up skittles....those are Xrays silly

It should make it on ESA's coverage of the launch ( they are involved with C1XS ), the C1XS website, and maybe the national media here in the UK will pick it up as well

Overnight, members of my admin team 'hid' (i.e. flagged as for review) a post, and replies to it, that was really not helpful in this situation. After review, I agree with my fellow admins that that it should be deleted - and the responses to it no loner made sense, so they have also been culled.

A PM explaining why has been sent.

And thank you for the kind, considerate contribution by someone simply saying 'welcome to UMSF' when the member in question asked where his post had gone. Yes - this is how we run things here - no one is forcing you to be a part of it.

Yeah - we had a small dish at school, and it's box of tricks fed into the - I think it was from one of the older Meteosats ( which they quite cunning use for both taking the observation which gets downlinked to the ground station AND for then relaying the processed results back to users via their dishes ) - images took a while to come down- but it was great to watch.

130ish metres looking at the DDPCI's ( drive direction pancam images - it's my all new acronym )

Sweet

Was the processing loud?

My god it's the Clangers!

Thanks for that- always wanted to know