Mars 3 (Various Topics Merged) |
Mars 3 (Various Topics Merged) |
Dec 29 2004, 10:36 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
On my website sometime back, I added a page on the image fragment sent back by the Mars-3 Lander. I released serveral versions, including the best quality processing using othodox techniques I would use on other images plus colorization here:
http://pages.preferred.com/%7Etedstryk/fragmentc.jpg However, I released another image, which I called a "What if" image. This image can be seen here http://pages.preferred.com/%7Etedstryk/m3s5b.jpg It was produced via extreme processing of the original data to make a Mars-like scene, but I made it clear on my website it was only a speculative image. I strongly doubt if the raw data even shows Mars at all - it could be all noise. But since this mode of processing looked strangely Viking-like, I figured I would put it on the web. I was warned by several, who said that while fun, some kooks might take it seriously. My response was that I really don't care what kooks think. Then I noticed this web page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2 They used the overprocessed image. I feel like it is being presented as a true photograph. This is of concern. -------------------- |
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Feb 5 2009, 04:36 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yikes - Google Mars has Mars 2 at the stupid Wikipedia location - it's a travesty ah tells ye!
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 PDF: 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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Feb 6 2009, 09:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Udon Thani Member No.: 4185 |
Yikes - Google Mars has Mars 2 at the stupid Wikipedia location - it's a travesty ah tells ye! How much certainty do we have on the Mars 2 position. According to most accounts it was released in the wrong orientation (or at least with the wrong coordinates set) after a failure of the mothership to update the lander data. This in turn resulted in a steep dive into the atmosphere and a crash before the parachutes could be deployed. This sounds to me like it went waaay offcourse. Hellas was probably the chosen landingsite for Mars 2, but it might have missed its target by an enormous distance and I doubt if there is much knowledge as to where it eventually crashed... Given all the uncertainties with ephemeris data at the time and the various coordinate-systems used, I doubt whether any of these probes are anywhere near their stated coordinates. |
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