And the 14th jan sequence - at 100%

50% size of the 8th-to-10th jan sequence.

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Anim Gif of the Jan 15th sequence.

It's why I love Dan's MER animation -.one of the greatest pieces of animation I've ever seen - still now even though it's 4 years old. BUT

It should go stage sep - fairing jet....then the long stage 2 burn with the vehicle exposed...then stage 2 shutdown - stage 2-3 sep - stage 3 ignitione etc..

BUT - He makes fairing jet happen seconds before 2nd stage burn out...which drives me CRAZY.

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It'll be interesting to see if we get a jump in Whr's when we hit those dark streaks - my initial thought is faster winds clearing all but the fine dust leaving just dark basaltic sand + concretions behind.

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Yup - the backdrop is a painting matching identically the first lookback images of Larrys Lookout - a view that was pointing North. The actual sunset image voted favorite was taken in a direction about 100 degrees to the left

I'm just a stickler for accuracy.

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Yay - email me some high res pics of it all please What's the quality like - is it OK? The reason I cancelled the old store with the greyscale logo was that it never really looked very good. From that picture - the new stuff looks much better.

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See -the jump from £800-900 for a MB to £1500 for a MBP is now harder to swallow - struggling to see much benefit at all really. Damn you Steve Jobs - where's Keynote 4

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Ahh yes - the famous view to the North East where then Sun always sets...



Nice Painting - but boy oh boy - fairly basic flaw in the realism there. Also - at sunrise or sunset, the arm wouldn't be in the Opportunity hover placement..it would be stowed or deployed on a target.

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You don't need fusing - this was a kinetic impact...it just what WHACK not BOOM.

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Bingo

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Suddenly - without warning - and without knowingly changing anything on my machine.

Poo.

PS - anyone tried MMB on a Macbook? How does the pan viewing go without a dedicated graphics chip?

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Just thinking in terms of 'impact window' - i.e. the time taken for the target to cover it's own size in terms of distance - the variable that identifies how accurate something has to be to hit something rushing past - not totally analogous ( you could drive 'down' the velocity vector for instance ) - but it gives you a sense of the scale of the problem.

Car - 4.3 metres - 26 m/sec - window is 0.165 seconds.
Jumbo Jet - 57 metres - 223 m/sec - window is 0.255 seconds ( this is why a jumbo 'looks' so slow in the sky - it covers it's own length slower than a small car rushing past). F22 - .030 seconds.

Satellite - 3 metre sized bus - 7500 m/sec - window is 0.0004 seconds

i.e. stood watching the thing fly past - you've got to be 412 times more accurate hitting a spacecraft than a car doing 60 mph. 637 times more accurate than hitting a flying jumbo - and 75 times more accurate than hitting an F22 raptor.

It's a big ask - I don't know how hard it actually is - but this isn't "let's modify a sidewinder' type thing.

Doug

That's what I was imagining this to have been. Launch - on a high sub-orb trajectory, and disperse a cloud of lead shot etc - through the satellite goes - 7.5k/sec impacts - the remaining shot just re-enters harmlessly but the sat is blown to pieces.

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Very very close to becoming a political thread here - but the USA recently refused to sign up to an agreement banning such tests.

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I hope that the 'scores' for this round of scout mission selection get out - I'd like to see why scout has been refused twice - as I think it's a mission with a LOT of potential for amazing science - think of everything they're doing with the tiny stardust samples etc etc. Even ultra high-accuracy Mass Spec work on an atmospheric sample would be valuable.

http://www.fourth-millennium.net/mission-artwork/scim.html

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despite having both hands over her mouth - the old girl was able to send back some stunning stuff - easy to forget that after the HGA problem.

Nor me.

Line 110 54159.48961 IO Emerging from behind Jupiter



Line 143 54161.43332 Io/Europa conjunction



Line 165 54163.17200 Callisto emerging from behind Jupiter

A nice handfull of Kodak's - I'm really proud that UMSF was able to contribute in some tiny way - this will rank up there with the MOC Deimos observation in terms of wow factor.

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It's turned into one of those things you read about in books, but know you'll never see in your own lifetime.



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Easy way for that to happen is this... anyone who would be happy to have one or more images sold on the shop should get in touch - send me the highest res JPG they can without any words/labels etc - I will add the UMSF logo to the corner - standardise the format in some way to include the 'artist' name and media credit and add it to the store.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/?id=7 for guidelines.

Doug

Twice this thread has entered tin-foil hat ground. Twice I've recieved complaints. It is now closed.

It is on Spaceflightnow.com as a MOV now (I don't know what I'd do without my subscription to that place) - I wonder how many kodak hendric moments made it into the sequencing.

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Yes - feel free to rub out the word 'Victoria' and write 'McNaught' on your swear boxes in crayon.

Doug