It's the Phoenix graphic that AstroO made for the UMSF banner

Sally's work is stunning - and to be honest, you could run them all together, put a cover on it and sell them.
Sally's articles and Emily's blogging compliment one another beautifully - and they've done a good job during Phoenix as well.

Doug

I can re-broadcast it at the same time with no change to what's required so sure. 1400BST ( 35 mins from now )

I didn't record it - I'm going to re-do it to record it later today. Given the sound problems, I'm glad

Doug

Zooming from 700km to 50m, 1 deg FOV to 45deg FOV is quite a long camera pull, and it wasn't really working - so I'm re-rendering now - shouldn't take took long. Here's a preview JPG of just using the initial shot ( 1deg fov ) with a subset I added on of 0.1deg FOV. I fudged the elevation around the crater, I don't have the MOLA data to do something cleverer than that - but if you compare and contrast with the HiRISE image - it's 'representative' if not accurate.

Remember - writing to your MP about space may kill him.

Fact.

It might be the RA 'touch' they were talking about on the Friday press conf to characterise surface characteristics.

Well - I was trying to be clever and use a wireless mic from work. But it died - and I switch to my Macbook Pro's internal Mic thereafter

Doug

GREAT stuff - now...onward to Cape Verde!

Doug

That was fun - nice to have a few UMSFers in there. I'd duplicate Emilys question about the best time to do these - when's best ( w'ends only for me )

Doug

Going live in a minute or two.

I've put together an animation of what I think will help put this breathtaking image into context. I've made a very crude chute and backshell model, put it over Tim's May 25m map of the landing ellipse, and start off with as similar view to that of HiRISE as I can fudge, and then zoom right in, fly around it, and fly out and above it to show the landing site below. It's rendering now, I wont have time to get it finished and online before I do my uStream lecture at 2230BST, but it'll be online tomorrow.

Doug

That SSI isn't the Phoenix one. The phoenix one is easy to spot - it has a lump on top to accomodate two spare MER CCD's. That's more likely the spare for MPL etc.

Doug

Because the dynamic range of the image is huge - the parachute is much much brighter than the background, thus to render the parachute visible, one has to tone down the rest of the image.



Opposite direction to what? EDL started from the left of that image, the landing site is below it - that orientation is correct


They're still working on the full image - it's a very unusual and off-nominal observation for HiRISE to do, so it take manual processing to get it right.

Doug

Lets call it 2230 - I've spent 8 years trying to see an STS+ET combo after launch and have still not done it.

Doug

Couple of RAC obs.

I think this is more work-volume imagery

The arm can't get to THAT Ice, the 'upper arm' is probably longer than the height from where the arm meets the deck to ground. But - you can see that where the dust blew away - it's everywhere. 5cm of soil, then ice. As they predicted (maybe )

Doug

It'll have imaged the sample collecting areas on the disk as a baseline before covering them in 'stuff' I would have thought. I was suprised we didn't see a OM guy at the press conf yesterday.

Doug

The next Messenger flyby? Dawn's Mars flyby?

Doug

Striking compared to, say, SETI?


Go and read the rules:


That post was bending the rules to begin with. It went bad as I expected it would. I deleted it as I ultimately expected I would have to. There are other forums out there which I am sure would be glad to play host to a discussion about it.

Well - you pulled that data into an XLS didn't you - they look like Excel '07 graphs. The XLS would do fine. I THINK ( but I'm not sure ) that 3ds max can import text (which I could make from the XLS) to do animation - if not I could animate it by hand fairly easily. The one that starts 27.8280 would be a nice start - it's 144 seconds worth I think. I could do it at 5x or 10x speed to show the bobbing camera motion for taking mosaics. I'll need to make a model of the SSI to start with though

Doug

Those are very cool - I'm going to see if I can put together an animation or something based on them in some way. Which files, specifically, do you use within that FTP server.

(And SSI is the opposite of Pancam. SSI is right eye for colour imaging, left to add stereo)

Doug

I've pushed it 'right' 15 minutes, so we can watch the shuttle launch to MECO, get a drink, go to the bathroom, and then get on with it

Doug

What are your thoughts on B2 Tim? I can consign our failure to find an MPL 'chute to the changing environment, the 'rise and fall' as it were of the frost and ice etc. But the B2 chute should be as easy to find as that of MER, MPF etc.

Doug