Got some side by side comparisons?

Doug

Doh, Hi could I forget.

Doug

HiFive for the kudos

Doug

HiRISE is the tax payers peoples camera- and the policy has always been to try and get the pictures out on the web as quickly as possible. Given the size of the products, the challenge in putting them together, and the nightmare of hosting dozens if not hundreds of 1Gig+ JP2's - I think the HiWeb team is doing an outstanding job.

MARCI and CTX have never claimed to subscribe to the peoples camera philosophy and are doing basically, 'the norm'. The very occasional release, plus dumping everything to the PDS in, I presume, six month chunks - six months in arrears. (i.e. Sept '07 will see the release of Sept '06 to March '07 images )

I know money is usually very tight for outreach etc - but it's a bit dissapointing to see the number of science orbit MARCI images released stuck firmly at 1 - that single image released a quarter of a year ago.

Doug

Yup - not properly released. The UMSF policy on this is something we've discussed as an admin team given that - to be fair - HiROC is about as leakproof as a teabag and we've just about run out of fingers to count the number of times things have got 'out' before they should have.

If someone spots something that hasn't been released and posts to it directly from UMSF - we cull that - that's someone at UMSF doing something they probably shouldn't and in doing so, UMSF becomes part of the problem - and we try to tell someone appropriate ( usually via Jason ).

If some other site has been sent something - that's fine by me as UMSF isn't involved directly.

Doug

They might struggle to fit them on - given that it's usually 20 mins and these are 40 or 60....might be worth asking over at the S@N forum http://forum.skyatnightmagazine.com/

Doug

I can't believe what thought process just went through my head.

"Oh yeah - that Ikonos image is the same sort of quality for Jupiter as HiRISE managed. Those Mars pics from Ikonos are good - I wonder what Mars would look like through HiRISE"

Duhhh



Doug

They would have to be very very close for it to be worthwhile - and you'd have to make an excellent case for the off-nominal sequencing involved.

Doug

No problem - email your postal address and I'll sort you out.

Doug

And new images added to the SOC gallery up to the 21st.

Doug

I'm looking forward to this one - Chris Lintott went to visit JPL and ASU - interview with Steve as well....must-see viewing for all UMSF fans I would say.

NOTE SCHEDULE CHANGE....
BBC 1 : 00:05 on Sunday 4th February. Duration: 40 minutes (i.e. technically Monday AM)
BBC 4 : 19:00 on Monday 5th February. Duration: 1 hour ('Directors cut' version)

Doug

Well - given that photographing the Moon with Earthshine results in the normal part of the Earth being totally bleached out - I doubt it. I imagine that there's a fairly big "keep out" zone for HiRISE pointing when it comes to the Sun - and at a time when Moonshine would be most usefull, chances are they'd be in that keep out zone.

Doug

Beautiful anims Fred - what did you use for manipulating the FITS?

Doug

65, 235 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001484_2455/
68, 265 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001496_2485/
68, 241 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001497_2480/
68, 223 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001392_2490/
69, 254 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001404_2490/
71, 260 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001417_2510/
69, 234 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001418_2495/
67, 266 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001430_2470/
65, 240 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001431_2460/
68, 260 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001431_2460/
69, 260 - http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001351_2490/

The best I can do running thru the Hi-Bucket.

For those that like cheating - I rather cheakily added "The members of UnmannedSpaceflight.com" whilst adding friends and family

Doug

You can see dark material swirling around the GRS from about 7 O'clock anti-clockwise to about 3 O'clock - very cool

Doug

Bit of an anim of I think four consecutive Jols ( Jovian Sols???)

Doug

Well that is just astonishing...totally bleached out. Bizarre

Doug

http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/di...PSP_002101_1875

Oh my. Time for another swear box.

I think there must be a bug in the naming there - those two images can't have been taken at the same time - they are totally different pointings.

Doug

In that case, scrap 'Victoria' - it's now Firefox

Doug

Going on craters being vessels of exploration.... Explorer could be any of these...
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/multi/explorer.html
or this
http://www.leithhistory.co.uk/ssexplorer/
or any of the many explorers on this list
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ships/shind41.htm

Doug

http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_ins...heatshield.html
http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_ins...heatshield.html

Swathes of unburnt reflective insulation from inside the heatshield - some reflecting the sun, some the sky, some the ground.

Doug

I've added a couple more products - I stopped short of an UMSF thong. I've also taken the logo off the back of the T-shirt

Doug

Another update -
http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/