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Entry 1291

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STP wins - his is the closest estimate.

Doug

Olives, Peanuts, Phil's Head, Crisps, Soup, Ice Cream, and over at Meridiani..Berries All things found in bowls.

Doug

Sort of. Although it opens all down one side. You can see it flip open in the Phoenix animation - in all those shots it's already open- I think the middle of those three shots is the arm its current config just about.

Doug

Yeah - I think it's some of that thermal tape covering the seams on the bio barrier

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Doug

Yay - first photoshopping from Phoenix I had a hack at fudging a blue and then rotated 180 degrees because I think the Bio Barrier should be at the top to make a bit more sense on the lander deck. GREAT find Ed.

Dog

Let's have a dose of realism here. There's no way that mission critical issues such as hazard detection, software etc are going to be an amateur contribution - that's highly unrealistic. That stuff is developed by peope within the ITAR legal 'firewall' - and unless you're inside it - you're not going to be a part of it.

The best way forward is to extoll the virtues of the amateur community, highlight what has been achieved ( specifically things such as APOD 'hits', mag covers, or work such as MMB ), and then make the case that putting raw images online as quickly as possible with enough information to make them as usefull as possible - without the help of something like the PCTDB which makes MMB possible today.

MER and NH have set a new standard for outreach w.r.t. people like us. Let's work to make sure MSL can match that - and then work to see other missions (and agencies) begin to match it before pushing the standard higher, or suggesting it be in a place that is not only overly optimistic, but also a legal and flights ops impossibility.

Doug

I think you can see the bio barrier in the background at the bottom - so it might make a bit more sense rotate 180 degrees with the bio barrier at the 'top' and thus what would be the deck at the bottom...maybe Very nice sharp picture though - bodes well for surface ops.

Doug

That MER mosaic is infact half the full size of Pancam's full res.

This is where the big-guns are : http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_ins.../panoramas.html

Doug

So are we looking forward to an alternate history documentary about spaceflight, or an alternate history study of the human condition?

Doug

Oh - I've seen the educational stuff at NASA - but it has VERY little to do with the subject in question here. This is nothing to do with understanding science or some sort of scientific elite - it's about being the intentions of the creator of MCS. It's not a 'story' - it's a 'what if'. It's a documentary of a technically demanding alternate timeline, not a sci-fi drama. It's a very unique work that needs to stand on its own.

Seriously - MCS is a labour of love for the guy making it - it's going to be a beautiful work that doesn't need tampering with by the usual suspects of Hollywood.

Doug

I have loads of cunning ideas. Only yesterday I had an idea for a Helecopter that could go underwater. OK - so they're not all very GOOD ideas...but they're cunning.

Oo - you fixed the OSX Icon issue

Doug

They'd just ruin it by trying to make it 'appeal' to a 'wider' audience.

Doug

Like I said - a very cool poster - and Hayabusa is frankly a miracle of the current generation of unmanned exploration - I just hate the movie used as an inspiration for the poster. No offense meant.

Doug

Or it was open when some dust blew along.

Doug

The real problem when a magazine publishes an article that you know to be complete and utter fiction...is how often do they do it without you knowing? To get something THAT major, THAT wrong is not even funny.

Doug

A lovely thought guys - but I'm the only person I know of who actually walked out of a Star Wars movie I disliked it so much. I consider them less like films, more a simple outing for the ego of Lucas. A cool poster, but given my hatred for the inspiring film, not something I could appreciate

Doug

About time We should have been doing UHF relay for MER as a 'payback' for borrowing the DSN so much

Doug

I don't 'do' Saturnian moons (havn't a clue what's going on beyond Mars frankly) - My vote is for 85% Cocoa Chocolate. It's what it looks like.

Doug

And I don't think that you will either. CS 2.0001 is more appropriate than CS3 to be honest.

Doug

http://anserver1.eprsl.wustl.edu/anteam/merb/merb.htm
Has bundle adjusted site+drive numbers with XYZ coords from the landing site (just XY for Oppy currently)

Doug

Just thought of a cool feature request. The rover tracking marks I presume only work for the current site number. It would be nice to be able to have them visible for a couple of site numbers each side of your current site number - i.e. watch the traverse around the interior of Eagle from the Lion King pan position etc etc

Doug

There's ISS components due to launch on it I presume. Russia doesn't have anything else with which to launch them. (The Russian Lab to bolt 'under' Zaryia I think)

Doug

I waited for this HC version which does 92% of NTSC (better than the usual 70-something). It wasn't cheap ( £425 delivered ) but it's just brilliant. Even just being driven by my lowly MacBook it's great.

Doug

Well - if the Martian Arctic doesn't deliver - you can just refer back to the Purgatory pan from Meridiani

Doug