There's a couple that have been 99.999% of the way to being classical anomalist garbage - but not QUITE far enough to, imho, warrant just deleting them. It's been a very very close call on a number of occasions however.

Doug

Unfortunately, it's streaming - so not easily saveable.

To be honest, it wasnt worth watching anyway - a lot lot more info just refreshing the webpage every now and again instead.

Doug

Given that a large spacecraft landed not far from there - not suprising there's the odd bit of metal around - we put it there

It was also visible in the Legacy panorama from near Humphrey

I've edited your topic title a little - dont want to attract loonies via Google.

Doug

The escape velocity is very low - GUTTING if they managed to fire Minerva off into space

I wonder, if perhaps it's just on an odd looping trajectory that may land, but only after some time - how long will Hayabusa get a good relay link to Minerva after leaving Itokawa

Doug

Who knows if it'll even land. Nervous moments !

Doug

Or if you run the whole sequence, you can see the rat rotating just on the right of frame

Doug

Good to see - it's been a fair few months since the Journal went online and I've been looking forward to the first articles!

For the keen amateur - having many papers hidden away behind expensive subscriptions is a really dissapointment, so MARS is a fantastic resource.

ORR - take simultanious L and R Pancam images, and if the feature is in both...it's not a cosmic ray hit

Doug

Hayabusa is a TIE, but it's Tri, not Twin

Doug

I know all of that, more than well enough.

The Huygens policy is very different to the rovers. We are almost 12 months from landing, and the full instrument data set is not online. If it were MER, it would have been online for 6 months already.

MSSS and Themis team offer a useable, intuitive interface for Mars Orbiter data, the MEX HRSC data is almost unuseable and barely accesable.

ESA press releases are infrequent, inaccurate and often make idiotic claims that are untrue and unfounded.

It's not just an image releasing strategy that ESA lacks by a long long way

Doug

Lop the pdf off the end and just go to pip and there's a few others in there.

Doug

These images are amazing

Not sure what's going on with that target marker though.

I LOVE Google Jap->Eng Beta..

" Red-light district length with respect to the right in the left figure 10m."

Doug

Nothing to do with FoI at all. It's bog-standard-science-mission-practice - release science data six months down the line so the people who made it happen get first dibs at it. That we're getting the quick-look-rough-and-ready-jpg's is an enormous bonus.

Doug

Well MEX stuff is already in the PDS, and ESA opperate their own pseudo-PDS-tool at http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=PSA - problem being, due to the nature of HRSC data, it's basically impossible to use

Doug

The EDL data is on the PDS - but it's a bit awkward to use - the derived stuff is in there, I'll see if I can put Pathfinder, Spirit and Oppy pressure profiles together.

Doug

Nope - you're right - same temp. - for some reason I thought Spitzer was kept a bit warmer than GPB

The LEO issue is almsot certainly a clincher though -

It's certainly not good enough - that is without doubt.

Doug

If I had the time, I would, but busy busy busy unfortuantely

But GP-B had to be kept a lot lot colder than Spitzer does.

Doug

See - he makes this claim

"The next picture shows the same area in visible light as a human on Mars would see it himself."

From the JPGs. I dont know if he's misinformed, or intentionally misleading - he's certainly wrong in saying that Viking imagery is used as a calibration benchmark for MER data. It isnt. It wasnt with Pathfinder either.

Doug

Just the jpgs - I use a lot of photoshops ' match colour ' tool with a sample from the Naturaliste pan.

Doug

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_images/0634B_725.jpg 1MB

There's another two columns to the right to be had yet I think - but not fully down.

Doug

My plan is to do a listen-and-read-thru-at-the-same-time when it's all together to make sure it's all right

Doug

Well - we do get the proper data, just 6 month in 'back pay' as it were.

I must admit - I'd like to see that time come down - but I also know that the scientists and engineers who do the amazing job they do, deserve the first bite of the apple

Doug