Images from Viking Orbiters |
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Dec 6 2010, 08:16 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
"Storm and Shadow"
Phobos shadow passing over dust storm in area of Viking 1 Lander landing site. Artificially colourised animation made from 20 frames taken by Viking 1 Orbiter. Timewarp 40×.
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Dec 6 2010, 08:38 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
....whoa!!!
Nice. Thanks, Machi! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 6 2010, 09:15 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Machi, I honestly think it's time you actually came clean and admitted you're a Time Lord, with a TARDIS, and you spend your days zipping back and forth in time, scooting across the solar system from planet to planet, photographing and filming these amazing sights and events you show us...!
Beautiful stuff, thanks. -------------------- |
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Dec 6 2010, 09:42 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
WOW! Outstanding! I really like this one machi. It really gives me a sense of what it would be like in orbit around Mars. Maybe one day
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Dec 6 2010, 08:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Thanks!
Second version with timewarp 10×. Thus, animation is longer, but now it's more difficult to see slow dust storm movement over martian terrain. Date: 1977-09-28 Time: 05:02:36 - 05:05:26 UTC
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Dec 11 2010, 02:22 PM
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Dec 11 2010, 02:38 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...you've done it again!!!
Beautiful!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 11 2010, 05:13 PM
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Dec 12 2010, 04:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Many thanks belongs to Piotr Masek and his Viking Viewer, which I used to initial denoise and destripe procedure.
North polar haze from violet and red images: -------------------- |
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Dec 12 2010, 06:03 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Very beautiful!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 12 2010, 07:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Machi, your work is beautiful and very valuable!... thanks!
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Dec 13 2010, 04:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
And inspirational! Thank you!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Dec 15 2010, 05:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Thanks for kind words!
And now for something completely similar. You can see area between Deuteronilus Mensae and Protonilus Mensae with craters Lyot (big crater in the middle part of image), Mareux, Quenisset, Rudaux and Lomonosov (big crater under thick haze at the top-left) . Color from red and violet images. -------------------- |
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Dec 15 2010, 06:18 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 19-March 06 Member No.: 714 |
Machi, those "Storm and Shadow" clips are AMAZING! Would you be willing to put them up on YouTube or Vimeo so I could embed them on my blog? I really enjoy pointing out motion and dynamic actions from space.
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Dec 16 2010, 09:11 PM
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Wow! I love the standing wave clouds in the lee of that large crater.
I'm loving this thread in the same way I've been loving the recent Voyager at Jupiter thread! (In proper Oliver Twist tone "Please sir, can I have some more!?") And thankyou. P |
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Dec 17 2010, 03:25 AM
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Those are some amazing pictures! I got up close to the screen just to see the smaller details.
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Jan 2 2011, 09:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Something to celebrate Christmas and New Year.
Martian north polar ice cap. Happy New Year 2011! -------------------- |
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Jan 2 2011, 09:39 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Oh, my.
Daniel, you are indeed a wizard! Thank you for this beautiful New Year's gift. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 2 2011, 09:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Outstanding work!
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Jan 2 2011, 10:05 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
This is probably the best Viking view of Mars' polar caps (north or south) that I have ever seen. Great work.
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Jan 2 2011, 10:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Beautiful! Nice work!
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Jan 2 2011, 10:21 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Good grief... *another* image that deserves to be in textbooks for years and years to come...
Absolutely perfect! (and please, if anyone's thinking "Hmmm, I'll just tweak that a bit more...", don't; it would be like messing about with a painting, it's fine just how it is. ) -------------------- |
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Jan 2 2011, 11:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Thanks!
This is probably the best Viking view of Mars' polar caps (north or south) that I have ever seen. I think (actually I know), that another beautiful raw images are still waiting for processing. I tried choose only very nice images from Viking Orbiters and after all I have around one thousand favourite images! it's fine just how it is. ) True "imagemage" is never satisfied . -------------------- |
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Jan 2 2011, 11:14 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
True "imagemage" is never satisfied . Absolutely, but it's up to you to change it, seeing as you made it, not anyone else -------------------- |
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Jan 2 2011, 11:16 PM
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Very nice! I like the limb of Mars right at the top too!
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Jan 2 2011, 11:27 PM
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Adding my voice to the choir -- Very nice work indeed. Splendid revival of spectacular images from decades-past!
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Jan 3 2011, 01:46 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Excellent!
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Jan 3 2011, 08:01 AM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
I don't really 'dig' Mars, as such, but that is yet another tremendous image Daniel.
You also need to set up your own YouTube account, as a way of storing all of your tweened/morphed movies in one accessible location. -------------------- |
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Jan 5 2011, 09:52 AM
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Animation of Martian cyclone from two images (f783a42 and f783a61) taken by Viking Orbiter 1
9.8.1978 in 16:31:20 and 17:51:18 UTC. Color is "pseudoartificial" (combination of approximately real color from USGS map and artificially reconstructed color of clouds). Timewarp 600×. Youtube version.
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Jan 5 2011, 08:02 PM
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Very intriguing machi! I might recommend releasing a version that is sped up as well; it is a little difficult to see the motion with it being slowed down to almost real-time dynamics.
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Jan 6 2011, 07:43 PM
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Two speed-up versions, timewarp 960× and 1200×.
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Jan 6 2011, 08:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
Next up on Weather Channel:Mars...
Great work machi. I always find it incredible to see such similar weather on such different worlds. -------------------- |
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Jan 7 2011, 12:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1583 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Nice! I like the faster versions.
And I see a strong resemblance to the symbol used for hurricanes. |
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Jan 7 2011, 11:19 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
That is REALLY cool.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 31 2011, 08:34 AM
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...And here is Mangala Vallis as seen in 1980 by Viking orbiter 1 : one of its last images taken before the end of its mission. I saw the building of this mosaic at JPL in 1982 and at this time, Marcia Neugebauer (working in Conway Snyder's team) did all the photographic prints with geometric corrections + their careful pasting together with glue (!) into a large mosaic to be photographed again. It was a stunning mosaic to see at JPL (it was a BIG one) at ground floor of Building 264 (then dubbed the "Viking Building"). It was presented by the few Mars enthusiasts left then and had a lot of succcess among visitors and planetary geologists... There are a lot of stories to tell about the profound implications this picture had on future programs, such as MGCO (shortened as MO, then MGS)... Now you see it (reduced at 30% of its original size to fill in the Forum), with pictures pasted together with modern computer techniques (not glue...) and then colorized. Enjoy !
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Jan 31 2011, 11:45 AM
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Superb work!
We really need "amateurspaceimages" for full size of jewells like this one. -------------------- |
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Feb 2 2011, 12:05 AM
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Feb 2 2011, 01:37 AM
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Wow! That is beautiful! Nice job!
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Feb 2 2011, 09:30 AM
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These pictures are great considering they used tube cameras.
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Mar 9 2011, 06:11 AM
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Another Martian mosaic from Viking Orbiter 1, now covering part of the southern hemisphere.
Two color mosaic (violet + red filters) + synthetic green filter. -------------------- |
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Mar 9 2011, 05:42 PM
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Outstanding.
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Mar 10 2011, 04:23 AM
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Dramatic limb ! Lovely view ! Brought back to life today, thanks
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Oct 8 2011, 12:07 AM
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Two "new" Olympus Mons images from Viking Orbiter 1 on my blog.
I added english captions to images, because Google translator is even worse in translations, than I'm . -------------------- |
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Oct 8 2011, 02:38 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
WOW! That second image is absolutely gorgeous!
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 20 2011, 12:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
I just found, that Picasa (gallery for blogspot) limits image size to 1600 pixels.
So I downloaded both Olympus Mons images on alternative server - global view, detailed view (19 MB!). Thumbnails: This post has been edited by machi: Oct 20 2011, 12:20 AM -------------------- |
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Apr 9 2012, 11:01 PM
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Apr 9 2012, 11:04 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
What's the ob ID's for that one? It's a beauty.
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Apr 10 2012, 09:26 AM
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A calm VO1 (colorized) horizon and limb view.. Enjoy Amazing view! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 10 2012, 01:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Nice!
Images from Vikings have some magic, which is missing in new missions. -------------------- |
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Apr 10 2012, 10:25 PM
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Apr 11 2012, 12:40 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Nice! Images from Vikings have some magic, which is missing in new missions. Yes, they do, don't they? Nice work, Olivier. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Apr 11 2012, 02:15 AM
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I love the 'warm' look that vidicon images have which you just don't get from CCD. It's like being a vinyl aficionado.
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May 18 2012, 08:15 PM
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May 18 2012, 08:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
machi!
that is so beautiful -- your mastery of stitching and blending those 36 images is inspiring! thanks for sharing your work! -------------------- CLA CLL
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May 19 2012, 12:01 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Aaand that's another Daniel Machacek work that's gone straight to my blog. You make my job easy
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May 19 2012, 01:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Columbia, MD Member No.: 1083 |
Amazing picture, machi! Love the view of the atmospheric haze with the surface. Great color.
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May 19 2012, 02:25 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Daniel, there are no words.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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May 19 2012, 01:02 PM
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Gorgeous!
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May 19 2012, 02:49 PM
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Wow, just wow!!
Always Argyre... |
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May 19 2012, 05:30 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Stunning Daniel, just stunning.
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May 19 2012, 06:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
A feast for the eyes, Viking comes alive, it's such a careful treatment of a spectacular view, thanks for sharing.
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May 20 2012, 08:37 AM
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May 20 2012, 10:49 AM
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Thanks to all!
With all my Vikings mosaics and animations, I reduced number of images in my folder with favorite Viking images from ~2250 to ~2100, so there is still what to do. -------------------- |
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May 22 2012, 11:56 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Possibly the best Viking mosaic of Mars I have ever seen. You mention that as part of the processing the images were warped. Was this done to correct for the vidicon distortion or to make it possible to mosaic them without getting ugly seams?
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May 22 2012, 01:30 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Spacecraft motion between frames?
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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May 22 2012, 01:55 PM
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"Was this done to correct for the vidicon distortion or to make it possible to mosaic them without getting ugly seams?"
Vikings vidicons had relatively small geometric distortion (compared to previous Martian mission Mariner 9). So I did warping only for mosaicking and resizing (bUnwarpJ does both things in one process). Only problems are with corners, which have most severe geometric distortion. So if possible, I used central parts from overlapping images, which have lowest geometric distortion. "Spacecraft motion between frames?" It looks, that spacecraft motion between frames was relatively low. After all, Viking was in higher (and slower) part of his orbit. -------------------- |
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May 22 2012, 07:34 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 15-July 09 Member No.: 4867 |
Isis does not provide enough metadata for a fine and automatic warping then registration ?
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May 22 2012, 07:52 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
It's hard to map project an image when two corners are in space.
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May 25 2012, 12:17 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 15-July 09 Member No.: 4867 |
Sure it's harder, but... not that much, it's still geometry basics. I thought Isis could handle those cases.
Thanks for the information, it's good to know. Congrats machi, the image is really great ! I love the details in the atmosphere... |
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May 25 2012, 08:17 AM
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"Isis does not provide enough metadata for a fine and automatic warping then registration ?"
I don't use ISIS. I haven't LINUX yet (at home), but I want them (LINUX+ISIS) for my new computer (not for mosaicking, but for 3D modeling - shape from shade etc.). -------------------- |
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Jul 4 2012, 11:41 PM
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Conway Snyder (Viking Project Scientist at JPL) had a fascination for the Tharsis Plateau. In 1978, he ordered VO-1 to take some specific images in order to build a great mosaic of this spectacular geological feature. But VO-1 needed two passes to take the full perspective. The images were taken during orbits 753 and 759...
Now, you can see the perpective fully processed : an unusual and spectacular view of Mars taken from almost above its topmost point : Olympus Mons. In the far distance, Valles Marineris is stretching towards the horizon and vanishes among mists, dust layers and clouds. The weather was cloudy above some places and Conway was not so happy at 1st glance : he expected crystal clear pictures everywhere. He let Marcia Neugebauer, his "wizard" deputy for imagery, built a crude mosaic : he was so happy with the result that he had it published in a JGR issue... Now thanks to modern computer techniques, you can see Conway Snyder's perspective revisited with the pictures fully processed and pasted together. Of course, not with Marcia's glue... The size of the mosaic is reduced 50% to fill inside the UMSF forum. Enjoy this work dedicated to : - Conway Snyder http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=179235 , - Marcia Neugebauer : most Viking Orbiter mosaics done for Press releases at JPL (the beautiful ones printed on glossy photographic paper -now collectibles-), were built by Marcia ; - and the Planetary Society (for which Conway was a much involved member, starting from TPS' very origins) |
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Jul 5 2012, 10:20 PM
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... Although the images were taken as panchromatic filtered pics, and because of some UMSF friends personal requests, here is the colourized version of the mosaic (using multiple-layers colouring). Enjoy !
... and let me dedicate this mosaic to our UMSF forum "Cartographer-in-Chief" : Phil Stooke, who deserves so oftenly our congratulations for his work and for sharing it with us. |
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Jul 6 2012, 12:24 PM
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It's gorgeous!
"The size of the mosaic is reduced 50% to fill inside the UMSF forum." I think, that you can send full resolution image to Emily's "Amateur Space Imaging" site. It would be very nice addition. "and let me dedicate this mosaic to our UMSF forum "Cartographer-in-Chief" : Phil Stooke, who deserves so oftenly our congratulations for his work and for sharing it with us." I totally agree! -------------------- |
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Jul 6 2012, 05:03 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Merci! It's beautiful.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Dec 13 2012, 09:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
I think, that you can send full resolution image to Emily's "Amateur Space Imaging" site. It would be very nice addition. Thanks a lot and good idea ! I'll do it when the previous images I sent a while ago are published inside the "Amateur Space Imaging" site. I think they are overburied with work and cannot take more huge images now. No problem : I'll wait then |
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Feb 11 2014, 11:59 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
This appears to be a new global color Viking image mosaic. Too big for me to handle, so I look forward to seeing what others do with it! The browse preview looks quite lovely.
Mars Viking MDIM21 Color Global Mosaic 232m/p -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 12 2014, 07:21 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
unfortunately the usgs servers are maxing out at about 300Kb/ sec (with about 200K as the average)
at 12 gig this is a 12 hour dl on a 30 meg cable connection |
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Feb 13 2014, 08:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
This appears to be a new global color Viking image mosaic. Too big for me to handle, so I look forward to seeing what others do with it! The browse preview looks quite lovely. Emily, just an idea, please. Could there be a downloadable version of this gorgeous map put online by TPS on its website as JPEG images : 1 global half resolution + 2 hemispheres left/right full res (to be mosaicked by users if needed) ? This would be a real help much appreciated from us as TPS members... Thanks so much again in advance if you can find a solution, please, and with warmest regards, VM |
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Feb 15 2014, 12:39 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I don't plan on hosting the full-resolution data, but with the help of Fred Calef I have posted here a version with a resolution of 2.5 km/pixel in PNG format, suitable for serving as the base of a global map. It is 52 MB and 8536 pixels wide.
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Feb 15 2014, 01:28 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
what do you know the dl speed of the cub is now at 1.9 M/s
2 hours VS 12 hours but this is just a colorized version of the same mdim basemap good for making a control network for the themis data and CTX images |
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Feb 17 2014, 01:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
I don't plan on hosting the full-resolution data, but with the help of Fred Calef I have posted here a version with a resolution of 2.5 km/pixel in PNG format, suitable for serving as the base of a global map. It is 52 MB and 8536 pixels wide. Thanks a lot Emily : this is very kind of you. I'll try to downloand it tonight at home. |
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Nov 2 2015, 11:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
One of my long-running projects has been reprocessing Viking Orbiter mosaics. One of my eventual goals is to recreate the mosaics featured in Viking Orbiter Views of Mars. The data's pretty great when it's cleaned up and frames assembled digitally, so I think it'd be great to see an "updated" version of that book. I have a growing Flickr gallery of completed mosaics. I'll post a couple of my favorites here.
One of the southern hemisphere monitoring mosaics, centered on the Argyre Basin: The famous regional shot of Chryse Planitia showing water-sculpted features: The Tharsis Plateau: |
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Mar 2 2016, 12:31 AM
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The global dust storm of 1977 while it was still a regional dust storm in Thaumasia, taken on February 19, 1977.
Thaumasia Dust Storm - Viking Orbiter 2 by Justin Cowart, on Flickr |
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Jul 22 2016, 06:34 PM
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Dec 10 2016, 08:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
Here's a 15-frame mosaic of the region northwest of Hellas Basin. There is a missing chunk at top center that appears to have been filled in with the official NASA release of this image, but I'm not sure where they pulled the data from. A neat feature that the official version misses is some high-altitude clouds along the horizon at the bottom left corner.
Mars - Viking Orbiter 1 - Rev 1483 Full by Justin Cowart |
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Dec 10 2016, 11:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
It amazes me home much we missed back in the 80s!
Well done!! Its also nice to see the correct colour and not the blood red over saturated images of the 80s. |
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Dec 11 2016, 12:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
That's gorgeous image Justin!
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Dec 11 2016, 12:22 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Stunning. The wide-field views of Mars from the VOs are still some of the most dramatic and beautiful ever captured.
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Dec 12 2016, 11:39 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
This is an awesome mosaic and one thing I like is that this is not a low phase view. Examining the terminator in hi-res global views of planetary bodies is usually interesting. It would be particularly interesting to see hi-res global views of Mars at high phase angles - the limb/atmosphere would be interesting in these views (anyone from the MOM team reading this ? ;-)).
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Apr 2 2017, 04:27 AM
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Apr 2 2017, 06:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 28-October 12 Member No.: 6732 |
Stunning view as always, jccwrt! But please note that the volcano visible is Ascraeus Mons.
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Apr 3 2017, 03:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
Thanks for the correction, I've updated the flickr description of the image.
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Sep 27 2017, 04:47 PM
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Somewhere in the northern hemisphere in November 1978. Metadata isn't helpful in figuring out exactly where. I have a hunch that the large crater in the lower left corner is Lomonosov, but there are so few surface features visible that I can't confirm.
View over Vastitas Borealis looking towards the north pole in September 1979 |
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Sep 28 2017, 01:15 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Your hunch is correct. Lomonosov is the largest crater. Kunowsky is the other one at upper right (due south of Lomonosov). Very faintly visible to clinch the identification are a crater at lower left (due north of Lomonosov) and a cluster of small features just south of Kunowsky.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Sep 30 2017, 05:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
Thanks Phil!
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Dec 26 2017, 07:17 AM
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Mar 30 2018, 10:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
I've been experimenting with a trial and error method to get pseudo-true color mosaics from single-color RED filter mosaics. Given that most of the surface albedo information is contained in the red portion of the spectrum, I've been creating synthetic blue images by dramatically reducing the contrast, manually brighten the horizon to simulate scattering, adding topography back in by overlaying a high-pass filtered red image, and then creating a synthetic green image by some blend of the red and blue images. It's not the most scientific method, but I think it does get close and is a nice quick way to see Mars in color.
My first attempt was with a large mosaic of Valles Marineris: Valles Marineris synth color - Viking Orbiter 1 - Orbit 663 - 04-11-78 Modifying my process a bit, I assembled this 36 frame southern hemisphere monitoring mosaic. Viking Orbiter 2 - Southern Hemisphere Monitoring The original black and white version of the second mosaic is also on my flickr page. |
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Mar 30 2018, 11:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 10-November 15 Member No.: 7837 |
Great work Justin, I tried this idea before and came up so short.
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Mar 31 2018, 06:24 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10166 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
They are really nice. It's good to see the beautiful Viking data still in use - I remember how amazing it seemed when all we had before was Mariner 9. Color imaging sure has come a long way since the 70s!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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