Behind the stars-and-stripes in that image, or perhaps in the same position on the opposite side of the spacecraft.

Doug

I'm making an NH with the HGA from Spacecraft Kits as a basis - it's totally the wrong shape though It's the thought that counts

Doug

Here are the top 5 forum attachments to date...(i.e. most viewed)

In at number 5
Where Oppy got Stuck by Pando (1348 views)
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ype=post&id=635

Number 4
Hello Endurance by djellison (1645 views)
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...type=post&id=95

Number 3
Hayabusa, Xfighter - odave (2177 views)
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...pe=post&id=2490

Number 2
Sleep? What's THAT by mato (4479 views)
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...pe=post&id=2541

and Number 1 - the most popular image from this place, and rightly so
Leaving Larry by Deeman (8449 views)
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ype=post&id=464

A healthy combo of first-look imagery, comedy, and outright beauty

Doug

i.e. - Steve mentioned it in his last update

Doug

Didnt the Stardust camera employ a mirror to flip the view? Might have had something to do with it. Either they didnt compensate for it when did the press imagery and have for the raw release, or vice-versa.

Looking at this - http://www.nasa.gov/mov/139826main_stardust-trajectory.mov - the spacecraft was overtaken by the comet in a deep-impact style. So, if you were a human spacecraft, with your head 'up' (i.e. standing in the same orientation as one would stood on the north pole of earth) - the comet would have travelled from right to left.

Thus - the early images should have the shadowed side of the comet on the left, and the last images the shadow on the right - or to put it another way - the comet should start with the lighting from the right, and finish with it being lit from the left.

i.e. the sequence as it sits on that (very very good) website is geometrically wrong.

Now - the problem is - you could take an image that appears to be the wrong way round, and either rotate 180 degrees, or flip horez, and have different results. Now - if the PDS released data is as it came from the CCD - then it will need to be flipped left to right.

I think

Much kudos on the website - did you do that pulling-of-data-from-PDS headers all by hand


Doug

What is it that the Google Toolbar offers than the earch box doesnt?

Doug

It's on 500whrs at the moment, so a slope doesnt matter so much. A north or south slope would be worse, but an east or west slope wouldnt be too bad.

Doug

3700 x 2846 : 4mb
http://mer.rlproject.com/oppy_truecolour_mosaic.jpg

All three made from a library of Pancam Calibration Crew 'True Colour' images from
http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_...true_color.html by D. Savransky and J. Bell (Cornell) / JPL / NASA

Can you tell I got bored of PTGui last night

Cool, n'est ce pas?

They're done in honour of the Pancam Calibration Crew. Selfless lunatics who spend hours processing Pancam data so we can all play with RAD's a few months later

Doug

3498 x 5326 : 7mb
http://mer.rlproject.com/spirit_truecolour_mosaic.jpg

4500 x 3825 : 7mb
http://mer.rlproject.com/sundial_truecolour_mosaic.jpg

I could replaced 'banned' with 'polar lander'

I briefly thought about maing them Sojourner, MER, MSL....but that might be obscure for new people.

I'm open for suggestions.

Doug

Was that from the same chap who had

"Press yes to install your coke can holder"

and the cd drive ejects

Doug

These need to be put in a folder with wget, and tha folder needs to be wherever you want it to sprout all the folders. But these all work. I'll edit this in a minute to let you know if they're working w.r.t not downloading already aquired files.

If we were really clever - we'd end up with a zip which contains all of these ready to go. The zip can be sponsored by Maxtor (my 250 gig external is petitioning for divorce on grounds of an extra marital affair with this - http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=314941&cks=PRL - tempting )

I have them getting MRD's - they're the engineering camera version of RAD's as far as I can tell - if anyone knows better, let me know

Doug

No harm in giving Steve and/or Jim a quick email, they're bound to have the odd photo that might be handy.

Doug

There is a 'ranking' system in some forum software, a thread can get a thumbs up as it were - but it's a bit pointless and I'd rather not load the server with things like that.

I got bored at work today waiting for a DVD to burn so I made the new logo - not sure exactly how to finish it off though - I'm still thinking of perhaps a little line under the UMSF to say something - or a hit of some gfx, not sure what.

Making a new logo for this theme, seemed a lot easier than making a theme for the old logo

Doug

I cant find any at KSC that were taken after the CD was fixed, but before the insulation blankets went one. Looking at the spacecraft from 'above' as it were - without the HGA - it's a little like the classic shape of a house - with the RTG being a very large chimney. The CD would be on one of the two sides that would be the 'roof' of the house - the two sides that angle toward the RTG shield.

Doug

they need to have quite a bit of depth to them though - they're a few mm thick - and they have two 'levels' to them, with the little red corner on them etc etc

My suggestion would be very dark blue or black acrylic sheets, cut to appropriate shapes, and then two stuck together to allow that little corner to stick out

If I ever got round to something like this - I'd spend months adding all the little wires to and from the solar arrays
Doug

I have an image in my head of driving around the M25 ( the london 'orbital' motorway ) and yelling at a service station "BIG MAC AND FRIES PLEASE"...then doing another lap of the motorway, only to have a burger land on my windscreen about 80 miles later once I was back in the same place

Doug

I did WAYYYyy too much crater clicking...it was strangely addictive.

I'm guessing the 'movies' refered to in that TPS article are a pull of focus thru the gel?
Doug

Hopefully, between akuo's help and Emily's advice re wgetgui, I might be able to create BAT's that will automatically download only specific image 'sets'

So - this thread is for the contents of little BAT's that download something specific, for instance, All MRD Navcam frames and so on.

If you've managed to make a wget command line that works for a particular mission / dataset - post it in here so that we dont end up downloading the whole interweb

Doug

I just got a few of the models from SCI (Voyager, Galileo, MGS and the free MPL with a couple of spare HGA's for a scratch built New Horizons )

I currently have a 1:1 cube sat hanging in my little office at home

Tonight - I think I might make the MPL

Doug

It's probably cheaper to get people to do it than write some software to do it Especialyl when the people are a) free and plentiful

There's going to be some 'training' images before you're allowed to do real ones as I understand it, to make sure you know what you're doing

It reminds me of the Mars crater counting on 'clickworkers'

Doug

I'm a big fan of firefox, and I thought it might make sense to share extensions-experiences

I have 2 installed - Flashgot ( which talks to free download manager ) - great for getting all the links from a page, i.e. all the images from an exploratorium page.

and ZoomFox - which is just super. You've always been able to toggle between having a large image fill the window, or be show actual size - but this lets you zoom in and out and pan around much like the Photoshop navigator.

All top stuff

Doug

Now that IS clever

I think sometime = 00:00 Zulu, 01/01/2000

Thing to do is use rawid.exe - that's what I do - put it in C:\Documents and Settings\Username - and then just start a dos prompt and type rawid and paste the image name in there.


Doug