Yup - they did live video feeds of the launch - and we have CCTV on Sky digital here and they're showing the launch procedure.

Those strap on boosters are liquid fueld, Solid Motors chuck out a lot of smoke, but they didnt, they're more like the old Ariane 4 liquid strap-ons, but I presume much larger.

Doug

WOW - that's really bad then. Tut tut - BAD PAO...Bad PAO.

Doug

Def. not a JPL image - it's not corrected to be square pixels
Doug

But a UHF pass is a UHF pass. Proximity to earth doesnt really make a difference for Rover Comms. It means Odyssey can downlink a UHF pass quicker to Earth, but for the rovers, that doesnt matter.

Doug

But - it COULD have slipped like mad going forward, but had good traction driving back again - we would never know :0

Doug

For PTGui you need th biggest, fastest hard drive - that's the main bottle neck I think - as if you look in the folder you're saving to, you'll see HUGE files being generated!!

Doug

Lots of posts deleted - it had all got far too political and personal.....consider lots of wrists slapped!!


Doug

The PDS MER imagery (well, just Pancam) is on the geosciences node FTP server (umm...heck, where is it...errr... AHH http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/dataserv/anonftp.html details there )

BUT - Navcam and Hazcam data isnt in there, Pancam, MI, APXS, Mossbauer, MiniTES, and Des cam is.

Other missions in there, Clementine, Magellan, MEX, MGS, MPF, NEAR, MODY, VIKO, VIKL, Venera..

Things I really REALLY want them to have in there, MER Engineering camera data, and the RAD Pathfinder data set

HERE however - http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/ - is everything from the imaging node, and indeed, using a program called surf-offline ( it's terrible, but it just about works ) I got SOME stuff off their, including the Sojourner CD.

Doug

Unfortunately, it doesn include anything beyond the Summit basically.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_images/elev_2.jpg

If there's more contour data around, I'll be more than happy to do the work

Doug

Perhaps MRO will begin to answer some of those questions. I think Sojourner will JUST be visible, if we're lucky, very lucky, from HiRISE

Doug

As posted by me over in another An.Ec thread
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...qua_eclipse.jpg
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...rra_eclipse.jpg

I added several images together to demonstrate the effect more clearly

Doug

Well - these things have to spin at thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of RPM - (I've seen numbers between 6,000 and 60,000 rpm) and have their speed adjusted to impart forces onto the spacecraft...for day after day after day after day......

They just fail...they've failed on Hubble, they've failed on the ISS, it's just one of those components that dies eventually.

Doug

There is motion but not seemingly of the actual wheels, i.e as if the rover just settled a little.

Sol 623 at 1206 is the time I have for RHAZ images

Doug

If you unstretch it - it's the Columbia Hills from way back before sol 154

Doug

What confuses me is that it says Illumination, Upper Left.

MOC imagery is almost always illuminated from the left - as the local time is about 2pm when MGS goes overhead and thus, with north at the top - the sun is to the left - granted, that goes out the window when you're right down by the poles - but still, it SAYS upper left...

However - it really does look like something tall, illuminated from lower right.

Doug

The phrase Marswagen just makes me laugh somehow

Nice too see my piccies about - but they could have used the GOOD one

Doug

And several MODIS images stitched, from both Aqua
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...qua_eclipse.jpg

and Terra
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...rra_eclipse.jpg


Doug

good 'ol Sky +

I ACTUALLY watched it thismornin' over my bitesize shreaded wheat

Doug

As seen from Meteosat 7

Small and fast ( 0.7 meg )
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...clipse_smal.gif

Large and slower ( 2 meg )
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...nim_eclipse.gif

Those are Vis images, but the effect is visible in IR images, a slight bright patch moving across as well - showing the cooling effects of the eclipse.

Doug

That'll be 360-pan TEN for Spirit

Success,
Middle Ground (Legacy Pan)
Bonneville Rim
Half-way-to-Hills ( Santa Anita )
Cahokia (West Spur)
Turkey ( Thanksgiving Pan )
Larry's Lookout
Independence
Summit
Everest

AND.... a pair of 200deg+ mosaics as well!

Doug

I think Terra caught it out over Africa

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtim...6100501.4km.jpg

A LOT more than can be seen in the UK...just cloud.

Obvious really - there is a DIRECT correlation between astronommical events and cloud cover in the UK

Doug

Did anyone see the Sky at Night last night?

Good DPS coverage, great interviews with JZ, CP and SS - but frankly, the highlight was the closing image at the end of the credits, it was a pancam frame with vertical exageration (i..e Phil-O-Vision)



I'll take a screen grab tonight and post it - but it looked like one of ours Or at least 'inspired' by Phil, and the people who make Phil-O-Vision

Doug

They've done that mid-drive navcam mosaic's very rarely - infact I think the last few days with Oppy are the first time I've seen it.

It makes for good mapping of the outcropping, which is obviously an interesting thing to look at.

Doug