Huygens News Thread, News as and when we find it |
Huygens News Thread, News as and when we find it |
Jan 14 2005, 09:57 AM
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Nasa TV will be starting coverage in about 3 mins - but I'm watching multiple TV channels to see if any carry coverage - and will post any news thru the day as it happens
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Jan 17 2005, 05:28 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Joe Public has seen the picture from the surface, seen the one with the very river-delta looking thing - gone "oo - titan - thats interesting - oo look, Kate Winslet's been nominated twice in the Golden Globes' The general publics interest in this sort of thing if fleeting, and momentary. and gone before they finish reading the 500 words on page 8 of The Times. Everyone I've shown the colour surface image has gone "wow - cool" - and then we're started talking about Kate Winslett again. The public does not and will not care. No ammount of released 500 tiny JPGs is going to change that. Ever.
A routine is in place for all space missions - the data is with the scientists who made it for 6 - 12 months, then it is released to the public at large. Cassini and MER have recently broken that mould with essentially useless JPG's - but every other mission, previous oo present - has done no more than ESOC did for the Huygens descent - Three 'headline' pictures and no more, and thats more than enough for the mainstream media - enough to show joe public - not enough to steal the scientists ( who lest we forget have toiled for two decades to get this data ) thunder on doing science with them. And the proper raw calibrated data takes time to produce using techniques, technology and information that only the people who built the camera can do. No one else can do that. So, for goodness sake, let them get on with it!! That we got what appears to be much of the data set in jpg format within 48 hrs is just as much as JPL do with Cassini and MER - if it IS the exact data as transmitted from Huygens - then hell - we're 6 months ahead of ourselves already. We dont know how the images have been treated ( in the same way we dont know how the MER and Cassini images are treated ) - an 'auto levels' seems to be the most obvious way to get the most out of a murkey image of a murkey place in murkey conditions - result being it looks 'over' stretched. The Cassini auto-processing did it for 2 months - making each and every image of a saturnian moon into a white disk on a black background with no detail inbetween. A few weeks, and a few thousand images later - thats been fixed. People have put 20 years of their LIVES into making these images - let THEM enjoy them - the proper data will be yours to play with soon enough. Doug |
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