I'll go over there with a box of matches next time. They're not saying words that would make me think of a 24 hour scrub or anything like that - perhaps they can recyle to the SB retract and have another hack at it, they're not stuck to a specific window with a test flight I guess.

I made a cup of Mocha to watch the launch with, came back from the kitchen "abort". Don't open your sachet of instant mocha till the rocket's launched. Lesson learnt.

Doug

Is there actually a payload per se, or is it just an instrumented lump of something.

Doug

Updates at http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f2/status.html

I think we need a code monkey to get to work on the DT4 elevation format and the remaining Level 4 products.

http://www.geoinf.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/ion...image=2039_0000

The moment someone can get them converting into some sort of common 3d format....we'll be away.. 720p Anims-a-go-go. The attached is from the Level 3's. It's not really documented so far, but I assume L2 is the radiometric, L3 the map projected and L4 the very juicy elevation and then one presumes the image channels have been projected to fit the elevation model ( as they don't overlay because of the perspective of each channel )

Doug

Pulled out what I can find from the HRSC images....one could, if feeling hatefull towards ones ISP - get some of the stereo pairs and have a go, but I don't think you would learn much.

Doug

I know - the still I did is sort of an X-Section along the tube.

Doug

I just listed the names in the order they were, and the image numbers in the order they were - ABCFED (with E having two caves and thus two names )

Screw H1904 - that's 1 Gig+....but I've got the other two HRSC obs on the way down.

Doug

That'll teach me to comment without digging first
Some nice Lat-Long info from these...

Dena
http://themis-data.asu.edu/img/V18053001
Center Latitude-6.084 N Center Longitude239.061 E

Chloe
http://themis-data.asu.edu/img/V13448001
Center Latitude-4.926 N Center Longitude239.193 E

Wendy
http://themis-data.asu.edu/img/V17716001
Center Latitude-8.099 N Center Longitude240.242 E

Annie
http://themis-data.asu.edu/img/V18340001
Center Latitude-6.267 N Center Longitude240.005 E

Abbey & Nikki
http://themis-data.asu.edu/img/V14334002
Center Latitude-8.498 N Center Longitude240.349 E

Jeanne
http://themis-data.asu.edu/img/V18315002
Center Latitude-5.636 N Center Longitude241.259 E

I can't find any MOC's to match so far - and I'm sure if there were some, they'd be in the abstract.

I'm just guessing here - on the possible structure w.r.t. the collapsed lava tubes - and this is possibly the worst 3d visualisation of all time - BUT - perhaps it's something a bit like that ( just not crap )

Doug

I'm a bit "wtf?" with the Nozomi image you did previously Ted...where in hells name did that little data set come from

Doug

If you've taken the cave 'targets' from Themis toward the IR, remember that IR imaging is quite different to VIS imaging and you might see quite strange and odd results. IR imaging at night doesn't show the topography too well and is more about the thermal inertia of the target.

Doug

You've got X hours of downlink at 120bps instead of 128,000 kbps...you're you're never going to get the same ammount of data back.

Doug

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_ellison_...005564148/show/

Not all setup - but 99% of my crap's in there now I've tried to keep it mainly space in there, but some motorsport crept in in the form of a few 1:43rd models, a few pictures and a large 'rasterbated' image of Button I printed out last year. In my old 'in the house' office, I had a rig for driving racing sims (racing seat, pedals, wheel etc ) but I've had to give that up due to time issues ( couldn't find a clone to keep on racing ) - and the rig's going on ebay. Hanging on the bottom right corner of the large West Spur pan print is a little round piece of metal - that's actually a piece of ballast from the bottom of the Renault F1 car that Jenson Button used to drive before he joined BAR / Honda.

No prizes for spotting the ultra-Full Moon fan status of having the large and the small hard backs on the shelf

Doug

The 5% we lost was about 95% of the images I'd say - that's why Cassini and NH are such a bonus on their flybys.

Doug

Well - I'm currently sat on a nice black office chair about 18 inches above the yellow handled shovel
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=7174
Just about where this chair is - http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=8154

but inside a completed shedoffice. Walls are up, painted 'pecan' (Mars Sky if you ask me) - carpet down, some posters up, cool halogen lights up, shelving in place, made my own desk to fit (of which I'm very proud) - blind, Pathfinder blueprints across the ceiling, Pioneer Plaque on one wall, and the £1 Ikea clock that I sprayed and printed a custom face for to look like the tacho from a Lotus 49B F1 car from 1968 ....all sorted

The wireless network wouldn't quite reach, so I ran a network cable around the inside of the shed when boarding it up - through the old brick shed, through the garage, down the side of the house and into the front of the house where the phone and sat-tv go, and into the back of the wireless router.

And this is the first post to UMSF made from the shed, down that cable....it's a 100m roll, of which only about 30 is being used - the rest rolled up in various places in case I had to chop and re-run the cable because of a breakage etc - but thankfully - it worked first time...just crimped the connector on the shed end and it works..YAY!!!

Every time I walk in here, I get a glance of some paw prints that Suzi left just after the concrete started to set. I hoped that she would join me in here from time to time, but it was not to be - a picture of Suzi rock will certainly be going on the wall soon. Perhaps Gizmo - our new cat that we've had just a few weeks - will pay me a visit once she's settled into her new home a little more

Pictures tomorrow!

Doug

If you feel sorry for the 3/4 ton rover with nucelar power and a frickin laser beam on its mast....what must you feel for the MER's

Doug

So which PDS header thing am I missing - because what you're saying makes sense, but I can't see downsizing in the header at all

Doug

It's a bit odd - like a lot of SSI images, they are tightly cropped subframes. Strangely, this was at IMAGE_TIME = 1997-11-06T20:36:43.746Z and is on the PDS as two subframes - the second tiny one of Am is from the same taken image, but I guess downlinked as a seperate subframe. Then 8 seconds later it looks quite a bit smaller in that previous image. Odd. The LBL's don't show any downsizing, and they are different observation names in the header.

Doug

IMAGE_TIME = 1997-11-06T20:36:51.484Z

I think it is - shows the albedo difference.

Other odd pictures...

Ahhh...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01603
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01602
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01601
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01600

I was just ploughing through and thought "oo - that looks a bit like some of the Saturning rings..." - didn't think Aurora.... cools stuff, that's for sure

I'm going down to the UK's RPIF next month to grab all the Galileo stuff off their CD's hopefully.
Doug

Perusing the PDS, looking for some ring-obs to compare with the NH stuff that's just come down... are these Galileo ring obs or something else?

Not perfectly lined up - but that is 3hrs 40 mins of ring obs at 50%

Doug

It's the first southern polar cap image I've seen from HiRISE - and whilst I've not looked too closely, I don't think I can find it in any MOC images either.

Doug