Well - the BBC is funded in a strange way - it's basically a mandatory subscription - everyone pays about £130 a year for a 'TV licence' and the majority of it goes straight to the BBC. There is an increasing ammount of pure crap on television - but three programs make me very happy to pay the licence fee. The Sky at Night, anything by the BBC Bristol Natural History unit ( i.e. 'Planet Earth') - and Top Gear

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I know - that's what the caption says.

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To be fair you posted a link to "Astronaut Charles Duke stands at rock adjacent to "House Rock""



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A small house - I make that rock approx 1m across

This bright rock is on the northern inner slope of the larger crater just to the east - 6.5 metres across...that's more housey

One of them's easy to place - but not t'other - is it even in this shot?


edit....found it - and updated the JPG.

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Sorry to be brutal - but with that spec, it's just not worth it. I use a package recommended here - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/jp2.html - called OpenEV. 1.7 Ghz Centrino CPU and 2 Gb of ram is barely enough.

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Actually - they contacted me.

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Well - I've not looked at every sq. foot of the >1GB that those two images include....but I intend to.

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When the seasons allow. The MPL site is in total darkness now.

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Time.

What you're really saying is - wouldn't it be nice if the rovers were better. Yes - it would be. But because of all of the contraints - power, volume, processing power, memory, time, money...they did the best they could in the time available. Did you know that the onboard software for surface ops wasn't ready until after launch? It is so very very easy to sit looking at an article about upgraded software and say "why didn't they do this 3 years ago" without having an appreciation for the genuine difficulty involved. Frankly it is a miracle that they got two working vehicles on the ground, let alone two vehicles that exceeded their requirements for a primary mission and an extended mission for 10x that duration thereafter.

An analogy. Why didn't they design the 80486 to be as good as a Core 2 Quadro? Because it takes time.


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Given a broken wheel - I'm really rather pleased with the length of that drive - should be back at HP fairly soon.

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Problem is, it'd be fairly hard to see - and require an exposure long enough to probably smear such a shadow to a greater ammount than its own width

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Creating a thread for some OT posts in another thread.

Emily made a good point in her blog - perhaps it was a case of not wanting to blind lorri by having the whole disc filling the sensor at one time - or simply that the be sure they got the whole disk they simply 'framed' the target with four frames.

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There is something quite funny about the last observation while LORRI can fit Jupiter into a single frame being taken as a mosaic of four frames

Had a hack at it myself...and resized the finished thing to 1024 x 1024 for good luck

I imagine the last 'full disc' LORRI frame will be out soon.

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It's the number of unique IP's visiting in a month.

Monthly posts and monthly topics is from the forum softwares own stats. Unique visitors and Page views is from AWStats from the hosting package.

As for member numbers - the ACTUAL number of members is 1111 - there are a huge number (i.e. 5 to 1 ) of spoof registrations from gratuitous spammers when you compare to the number of actual registrations - that probably takes the 'member no:' artificially high.

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Yup

400D here - LOVING it.



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The other being "Rover driver says: Oh S..."

There are a few engineers and scientists who I know lurk and/or post under a pseudonym because they wish to retain their privacy and obviously, we should all respect that.

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It doesn't help you that much in terms of the work flow - but as a reference point - all the images that get dumped onto the PDS are provided in an undistorted way as well....

http://anserver1.eprsl.wustl.edu/navigator...FF69GJP1275L0M1

for example.


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They also missed that he was once an Ascan.

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Easy to forget that the Saturnian atmos is as complex as that on Jupiter in some respects...just a little more hidden than it's larger cousin. Stunning stuff - really shows the dynamics involved

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As long as Steve and Alan don't see one another, they shouldn't find out I'm two-timing them

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