Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Mar 10 2006, 09:20 AM
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Giotto’s brief encounter
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSZ0NVGJE_index_0.html Twenty years ago, in the night between 13 and 14 March 1986, ESA’s Giotto spacecraft encountered Comet Halley. |
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Mar 10 2006, 02:04 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10184 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This anniversary is a challenge to the UMSF image processing wizards. Giotto's images are available through the PDS. A great deal more could be done with them using today's techniques... but they are difficult to work with! I did a bit of this a decade ago but didn't take it far. The highest resolution images are tiny postage-stamp views of a small area... I think they could probably be combined to reduce noise and to create new mosaics.
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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