HiRISE PDS release, Has anyone done anything yet? |
HiRISE PDS release, Has anyone done anything yet? |
Jun 6 2007, 06:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
Has anyone played around with the HiRISE PDS release images yet? More specifically, color images? I have no time to do anything.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/pds_release.php http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/Missions/MRO_mission.html |
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Dec 18 2007, 01:39 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8790 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Stu, only thing I can think of is that the MRO team is neck-deep in accomplishing the nominal mission objectives right now...but, of course, that's kind of pale. Cassini's outreach is occurring during the primary mission, and by comparison it's been outstanding (well, to give credit where credit is due, it's been extremely good in its own right).
Only other thing I can think of is that Mars orbiters have taken a much lower profile in contrast to Mars landers. This is probably a huge mistake to make with an instrument suite as powerful as that of MRO's. -------------------- 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 18 2007, 02:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2549 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Cassini's outreach is occurring during the primary mission, and by comparison it's been outstanding... Cassini has an encounter every month or two with not much happening in between. MRO takes more data than a Cassini encounter every day. And frankly, the Cassini images are far easier to pick good ones from, don't you think? I think it's fair to expect that one or two images from MRO will make it onto most lists of the top space images of 2007. I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect a lot more outreach than that. (Though I am disappointed that most likely none of those images will have been taken by an MSSS instrument this year.) -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Dec 18 2007, 11:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
I think it's fair to expect that one or two images from MRO will make it onto most lists of the top space images of 2007. (Though I am disappointed that most likely none of those images will have been taken by an MSSS instrument this year.) Most images in popular books and calendars seem to be the same images released on the Planetary Photojournal, and sadly not the hundreds of gems hiding in the PDS. This CTX image would be a good candidate for a calendar though: Image P01_001558_1325_XI_47S326W EDIT: image updated. flipped. |
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