With three posts to your name, you're officially obliged to have the words "Newbie" painted onto your forehead

I will be wearing a small, special edition UMSF badge with yellow, not blue, on the logo

Doug

The 4 subframes of 6 month old VEX images were nice...but truthfully, I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn't ESA doing what Ted thought of

Doug

Look a hell of a lot like Exomars if you ask me

There was an old being called Mankind
Who walked the moon in sixty nine
Now fourty years later
The task is much greater
But the military budget's just fine.

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000934/
and / or
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects...e_20070403.html

I though I'd try and do a visualisation of the data in 3D - so I took the visible band and projected the two orbits worth onto two concentric dognuts around a sphere...obviously this isn't really accurate as spacecraft don't to 360 degrees then hop 15 degrees to one side, but it gives some idea of where the data comes from, all be it exagerated vertically.

Humphrey was a near face-on ratting, as was, I THINK.... Upper Dells or Guadaloupe. (or one of the other Eagle outcrop targets )

Doug

Major major kudos to Alan, John and Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks...don't know if I should be, but I'm sort of proud of that image.

I've given Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks a new forum title

DOug

That would be best - I think it's fair to say that we don't have enough numbers with enough confidence to go for a bulk booking ( minimum of which is likely to he 10+)

Doug

It's not that easy - a re-entry might be within a 5 hour window on any one of 3 orbits at any place along a 5000 mile track.

Doug

Yes - the plan is that anyone who's going should make sure they're going to the PM session - so we can all meet up, and watch RM together and heckle Jim afterwards

Anyone who's going early enough and wants to do the first session as well - all the better - but it makes sense to pick one and go "we'll all do THAT one" - so that we're all on the same page, at the same time.

D

No - that's what I was thinking of, but I didn't have a 100% nod from Jim about the times involved - I knew he was coming, but didn't want to say anything until I had had confirmation about times, prices etc....

That's what we now have

Might I suggest the afternoon session for everyone - I might do both - but the PM session would be late enough for people who have to travel to get there in time.

So yeah - lets all go to see Roving Mars..Jim'll be there

Doug

prevailing wind during the winter stop-over more likely.

Doug

Knowing the realities of video editing etc - the research, writing, recording, re-recording, editing and uploading of 2 mins - would take an hour, easily. If I had a spare hour - it wouldn't be my best way of spending it.

Doug

HER.

The rovers are female.

Doug

I'd make it. Just need

1. Money.
2. A TV station to air it.
3. Money

Doug

I've found the Ciclops website to be at best slow, and usually unuseably slow almost all the time.

Doug

Exactly the same here, without fail.

Doug

I thought the same

Edit > Convert to Profile > Custom RGB...

what Emily said

I've only just discovered that....I'm thinking it might be a better way to do home-grown L257 to true-ish-colour conversions for MER data than channel mixer..hmmm....

BJORN....HELP

Basically - you're not going to the outer solarsystem with a cube sat

Doug

The next flight is US gov't, the flight after that is a Malaysian company - but the word 'client' or 'customer' is probably a better one to use than 'company'.

Doug

I believe they already have.

Doug

....doesn't need to keep solar panels clean

Doug

I'm going to try a little experiment on this - icing sugar and a flat surface...then tap the surface for a while ( like driving over rough terrain ) - see what happens

OK - cocoa powder dusted onto a piece of carbon fibre. Then - all I did - was shake the thing for a few seconds - not much - just a little shake for a few seconds, perhaps 5mm amplitude, 5hz for 2 seconds....and I get 'clumping' of sorts.

That dial is on the edge of an array that is going to bounce and wobble a little bit as the vehicle drives - I can well imagine the same thing happening on the dial.

Doug

That is just BIZARRE

Kind of cool though.

Doug

I was working on a fairly low res model of MER - but got sidetracked. It's something I could/should have another bash at. There are a few on turbosquid, but none of them are particularly accurate to be honest.

Doug