Mark - SPDF - Im going to stop you all right there. How many times do I have to step in a stop people having the same damn argument again and again and again. Take it somewhere else. This is not the place. Mark - you are THIS close to having that post deleted and I will not hesitate to do so to future posts along a simple course.

Political debate will NOT take place here, and the manned vs unmanned debate will not take place here either - not because I side with one part of the arguemnt - but because it is a never ending, fundamentally pointless argument which neither side of which will ever compromise from.

I suggest you reaquaint yourselves with the rules.
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=boardrules

You have been warned.

Doug

(PS - well done to Stephen for directly and gratuitously ignoring my specific request in this post. Your post has been deleted as will future posts that discuss politics and the pointless manned-v-unmanned argument. )

CTX is B'n'W

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a quick 6 x 2

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The Steve Q'n'A Yes - it is a problem, but not for the rovers - for the scripts for processing images etc. on the ground, and they started working on it way back in '05

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"It's been a long time, but we're back - for good"

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Well - stuff should start hitting the PDS soon....we need a slinted-type effort to process the whole damn lot in an easily viewable option.

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We've not touched them. If they've gone, then Don has deleted them ( and they can not be restored technically or indeed legally )

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Nothing done by me or the team.

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Is it the same as this:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=40030

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Maybe they should have dropped it to POW.

As I mentioned in my Glog-spot, it's a real pitty that the efforts to highlight the work of MOC seem to be dropping just as the instruments achievments and legacy are likely to be overshadowed ( perhaps a little unfairly ) by HiRISE.

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David - My other half is member #2 of this place and found it funny, and with respect, most of the women I know who use the internet would have the intelligence to take what I said in the way it was intended.

No offense intended and I find it very VERY hard to believe that any of the women who I know visit this place would find it anything other than mild chuckle fodder.
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Assuming the girlfriend is typical of internet usage for females - she's using Ebay and emailing 'men are useless because....' emails to other like minded females..

She doesn't need the raptor

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No - the image file is fine -imagemagik can handle it, as can windows all on its own - just the larger apps can not manage to open it. When photoshop says it is corrupt - it is basically lying.

Err - the answer is in the question MMB will do all that

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I have 2 Gig - and I was getting errors in everything execpt just double clicking on the JPG in windows and getting the preview window.

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Like most - I'm now HiRISE obsessed - so I'm often finding myself trying to load images that are 10-20k on a side.

The large Victoria JPG - the 25k x 34k 'red' filter image I found would not load in Photoshop, Imageready or Gimp - and others have cited similar problems...I've found an answer..

www.imagemagick.org ( and for me - specifically http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binari...windows-dll.exe )

I installed that and simply doing convert red.jpg red.png - gave me a 500mb PNG of the 200 odd MB JPG which Photoshop loaded very quickly indeed.

I've tried comparing some of the smaller PNG's and JPG's from the HiRISE team and there is very very little difference - for the sanity of the HiRISE server, your own hard drive and bandwidth useage in general, my plan is to use the JPG's where possible, and if they're too big for photoshop, use Imagemagick to convert to PNG, and in some cases simple convert a subset of the image to PNG ( i.e. from pixel x,y to pixel a,b only )

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More questions for JB - drop them in there - probably be doing a new update in a couple of weeks

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More ram is must to be honest - I'm on 2GB and can just about manage it. Considering XP+Photoshop or GImp is probably taking half a gig....then going from 1GB to 2GB actually trebbles the ammount of memory available for the file within gimp/photoshop etc.

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Yes - the HiRISE detector is 10 CCD's side by side in the red. The middle two CCD's though are joined by Near IR and Blue/Green CCD's as well, so you get basicaly, 20,000 pixel wide images with the middle 4,000 in pseudo-colour.

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I was laughing at the thought that 'Big Crater' was just outside that HiRISE image...which it isn't. You would need another two swathes widths to get there.

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L7 typically has the best spacial resolution.

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Laugh Out Loud

LOL - 'just' - you'd need another two HiRISE images to get across to it.

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It was great fun - not sure if every post was for everyone, but that's the same with conference sessions

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Discussion continued here -

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3314