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Images from Viking Orbiters

machi View Member Profile	Dec 6 2010, 08:16 AM Post #1
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×. Attached File(s) f467_40x.avi ( 951K ) Number of downloads: 3376 -------------------- Blog, Flickr, Youtube, Twitter

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Bjorn Jonsson View Member Profile	May 22 2012, 11:56 AM Post #2
IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2256 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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machi Images from Viking Orbiters Dec 6 2010, 08:16 AM

nprev ....whoa!!! Nice. Thanks, Machi! Dec 6 2010, 08:38 AM

Stu Machi, I honestly think it's time you actually... Dec 6 2010, 09:15 AM

ZLD WOW! Outstanding! I really like this one... Dec 6 2010, 09:42 AM

machi Thanks! Second version with timewarp 10×. Thu... Dec 6 2010, 08:08 PM

machi Phobos mosaic from Viking Orbiter 1. Dec 11 2010, 02:22 PM

nprev ...you've done it again!!! Beauti... Dec 11 2010, 02:38 PM

sgendreau QUOTE (machi @ Dec 6 2010, 12:16 AM) ... Dec 11 2010, 05:13 PM

machi Many thanks belongs to Piotr Masek and his Viking ... Dec 12 2010, 04:36 PM

dilo Machi, your work is beautiful and very valuable... Dec 12 2010, 07:05 PM

Phil Stooke Very beautiful! Phil Dec 12 2010, 06:03 PM

lyford And inspirational! Thank you! Dec 13 2010, 04:12 PM

machi Thanks for kind words! And now for something ... Dec 15 2010, 05:54 PM

The Bad Astronomer Machi, those "Storm and Shadow" clips ar... Dec 15 2010, 06:18 PM

antipode Wow! I love the standing wave clouds in the l... Dec 16 2010, 09:11 PM

3three3 Those are some amazing pictures! I got up clos... Dec 17 2010, 03:25 AM

machi Something to celebrate Christmas and New Year. Mar... Jan 2 2011, 09:19 PM

nprev Oh, my. Daniel, you are indeed a wizard! T... Jan 2 2011, 09:39 PM

ugordan Outstanding work! Jan 2 2011, 09:56 PM

Bjorn Jonsson This is probably the best Viking view of Mars... Jan 2 2011, 10:05 PM

Juramike Beautiful! Nice work! Jan 2 2011, 10:10 PM

Stu Good grief... *another* image that deserves to be ... Jan 2 2011, 10:21 PM

machi Thanks! QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Jan 2 ... Jan 2 2011, 11:08 PM

Stu QUOTE (machi @ Jan 2 2011, 11:08 PM) True... Jan 2 2011, 11:14 PM

EDG Very nice! I like the limb of Mars right at th... Jan 2 2011, 11:16 PM

Hungry4info Adding my voice to the choir -- Very nice work ind... Jan 2 2011, 11:27 PM

tedstryk Excellent! Jan 3 2011, 01:46 AM

Ian R I don't really 'dig' Mars, as such, bu... Jan 3 2011, 08:01 AM

machi Animation of Martian cyclone from two images (f783... Jan 5 2011, 09:52 AM

ZLD Very intriguing machi! I might recommend rele... Jan 5 2011, 08:02 PM

machi Two speed-up versions, timewarp 960× and 1200×. Jan 6 2011, 07:43 PM

ZLD Next up on Weather Channel:Mars... Great work mac... Jan 6 2011, 08:12 PM

stevesliva Nice! I like the faster versions. And I see ... Jan 7 2011, 12:57 AM

nprev That is REALLY cool. Jan 7 2011, 11:19 AM

vikingmars ...And here is Mangala Vallis as seen in 1980 by V... Jan 31 2011, 08:34 AM

machi Superb work! We really need "amateurspace... Jan 31 2011, 11:45 AM

vikingmars ... And here is Olympus Mons enshrouded by its cal... Feb 2 2011, 12:05 AM

Juramike Wow! That is beautiful! Nice job! Feb 2 2011, 01:37 AM

monty python These pictures are great considering they used tub... Feb 2 2011, 09:30 AM

machi Another Martian mosaic from Viking Orbiter 1, now ... Mar 9 2011, 06:11 AM

mhoward Outstanding. Mar 9 2011, 05:42 PM

eoincampbell Dramatic limb ! Lovely view ! Brought back... Mar 10 2011, 04:23 AM

machi Two "new" Olympus Mons images from Vikin... Oct 8 2011, 12:07 AM

Juramike WOW! That second image is absolutely gorgeous... Oct 8 2011, 02:38 AM

machi I just found, that Picasa (gallery for blogspot) l... Oct 20 2011, 12:07 AM

vikingmars A calm VO1 (colorized) horizon and limb view.. Enj... Apr 9 2012, 11:01 PM

dilo QUOTE (vikingmars @ Apr 10 2012, 12:01 AM... Apr 10 2012, 09:26 AM

djellison What's the ob ID's for that one? It's ... Apr 9 2012, 11:04 PM

vikingmars QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 10 2012, 01:04 AM)... Apr 10 2012, 10:25 PM

machi Nice! Images from Vikings have some magic, wh... Apr 10 2012, 01:16 PM

elakdawalla QUOTE (machi @ Apr 10 2012, 06:16 AM) Nic... Apr 11 2012, 12:40 AM

SFJCody I love the 'warm' look that vidicon images... Apr 11 2012, 02:15 AM

machi Region from Argyre Planitia to the Thaumasia Fossa... May 18 2012, 08:15 PM

vikingmars QUOTE (machi @ May 18 2012, 10:15 PM) Reg... May 20 2012, 08:37 AM

PDP8E machi! that is so beautiful -- your mastery of... May 18 2012, 08:55 PM

elakdawalla Aaand that's another Daniel Machacek work that... May 19 2012, 12:01 AM

Drkskywxlt Amazing picture, machi! Love the view of the ... May 19 2012, 01:37 AM

nprev Daniel, there are no words. May 19 2012, 02:25 AM

ugordan Gorgeous! May 19 2012, 01:02 PM

gndonald Wow, just wow!! Always Argyre... May 19 2012, 02:49 PM

Stu Stunning Daniel, just stunning. May 19 2012, 05:30 PM

eoincampbell A feast for the eyes, Viking comes alive, it's... May 19 2012, 06:51 PM

machi Thanks to all! With all my Vikings mosaics a... May 20 2012, 10:49 AM

Bjorn Jonsson Possibly the best Viking mosaic of Mars I have eve... May 22 2012, 11:56 AM

Phil Stooke Spacecraft motion between frames? Phil May 22 2012, 01:30 PM

machi "Was this done to correct for the vidicon dis... May 22 2012, 01:55 PM

Lightning Isis does not provide enough metadata for a fine a... May 22 2012, 07:34 PM

djellison It's hard to map project an image when two cor... May 22 2012, 07:52 PM

Lightning Sure it's harder, but... not that much, it... May 25 2012, 12:17 AM

machi "Isis does not provide enough metadata for a ... May 25 2012, 08:17 AM

vikingmars Conway Snyder (Viking Project Scientist at JPL) ha... Jul 4 2012, 11:41 PM

vikingmars ... Although the images were taken as panchromatic... Jul 5 2012, 10:20 PM

machi It's gorgeous! "The size of the mosa... Jul 6 2012, 12:24 PM

vikingmars QUOTE (machi @ Jul 6 2012, 01:24 PM) I th... Dec 13 2012, 09:16 AM

Phil Stooke Merci! It's beautiful. Phil Jul 6 2012, 05:03 PM

elakdawalla This appears to be a new global color Viking image... Feb 11 2014, 11:59 PM

vikingmars QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 12 2014, 12:59 A... Feb 13 2014, 08:04 AM

JohnVV unfortunately the usgs servers are maxing out at a... Feb 12 2014, 07:21 AM

elakdawalla I don't plan on hosting the full-resolution da... Feb 15 2014, 12:39 AM

vikingmars QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 15 2014, 01:39 A... Feb 17 2014, 01:11 PM

JohnVV what do you know the dl speed of the cub is now at... Feb 15 2014, 01:28 AM

jccwrt One of my long-running projects has been reprocess... Nov 2 2015, 11:29 PM

jccwrt The global dust storm of 1977 while it was still a... Mar 2 2016, 12:31 AM

jccwrt Here's a 5-frame color mosaic of Chryse Planit... Jul 22 2016, 06:34 PM

jccwrt Here's a 15-frame mosaic of the region northwe... Dec 10 2016, 08:19 PM

Decepticon It amazes me home much we missed back in the 80s... Dec 10 2016, 11:53 PM

machi That's gorgeous image Justin! Dec 11 2016, 12:12 AM

nprev Stunning. The wide-field views of Mars from the VO... Dec 11 2016, 12:22 AM

Bjorn Jonsson This is an awesome mosaic and one thing I like is ... Dec 12 2016, 11:39 PM

jccwrt Here's a Viking Orbiter scan across Mars, cent... Apr 2 2017, 04:27 AM

bobik Stunning view as always, jccwrt! But please no... Apr 2 2017, 06:37 AM

jccwrt Thanks for the correction, I've updated the fl... Apr 3 2017, 03:11 AM

jccwrt Somewhere in the northern hemisphere in November 1... Sep 27 2017, 04:47 PM

Phil Stooke Your hunch is correct. Lomonosov is the largest c... Sep 28 2017, 01:15 PM

jccwrt Thanks Phil! Sep 30 2017, 05:47 PM

jccwrt Some Viking color mosaics I've worked on over ... Dec 26 2017, 07:17 AM

jccwrt I've been experimenting with a trial and error... Mar 30 2018, 10:16 PM

Sean Great work Justin, I tried this idea before and ca... Mar 30 2018, 11:16 PM

Phil Stooke They are really nice. It's good to see the be... Mar 31 2018, 06:24 PM

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