Moon Images By SMART-1 |
Moon Images By SMART-1 |
Jan 20 2005, 02:45 PM
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SMART-1 is approaching its operational orbit. ESA has released some images of the Moon on this page:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=36358 -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Jun 1 2006, 07:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
These two images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board
ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, show the difference between lunar highlands and a mare area from close by. Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMGBM9ATME_index_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 2 2006, 08:32 AM
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These two images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, show the difference between lunar highlands and a mare area from close by. That's an official release? That the Moon actually has (get this!!) dark and light areas? Perhaps, in a week or so, when the Moon is a bit fuller, we could all go outside one night and confirm this remarkable ESA fact? Hopefully SMART-1 will be followed by EXTREMELYINTELLIGENTINDEED-2. Andy G |
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Jun 2 2006, 09:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
That's an official release? That the Moon actually has (get this!!) dark and light areas? Perhaps, in a week or so, when the Moon is a bit fuller, we could all go outside one night and confirm this remarkable ESA fact? I fail to see where in the press release it is they claim credit for "discovering" the dark and light areas so what's all the fuss about? Seems to me that it's fashionable now to bash SMART-1 press release frequency so everybody feels to need to jump on this wagon. I have a better candidate -- why don't we attack, for example, the VIMS instrument' s team aboard Cassini instead? I don't see all too many releases from an instrument that supposedly has better visibility through Titan's haze than ISS, but that doesn't seem to bother anyone. Not fashionable enough, I guess... -------------------- |
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Jun 3 2006, 12:43 PM
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I have a better candidate -- why don't we attack, for example, the VIMS instrument' s team aboard Cassini instead? I don't see all too many releases from an instrument that supposedly has better visibility through Titan's haze than ISS, but that doesn't seem to bother anyone. http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=45962 |
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Jun 30 2006, 11:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
A sudden flurry of activity at last from ESA, demonstrating that they had the images all the time:
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMN1GL8IOE_index_0.html There's 136 images in that movie alone - more than we've seen to date. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jul 1 2006, 07:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Damn, Bob, you're right!
They say: "From these distances, a series of images could be obtained with some overlap between them, that allowed to build a mosaic during a good part of the orbit". Partial result should be something like this: These are only 7 frames (I excluded very first ones due to heavy over-exposure); some enlargement was needed on first ones, so spacecraft was in the approaching phase of it's elongated orbit (1000x5000 Km). Any volunteer wants to complete this work for entire orbit? -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Jul 1 2006, 08:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
...and this is the final portion, showing north polar region between Carpenter and Goja craters:
-------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Jul 1 2006, 01:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
...and this is the final portion, showing north polar region between Carpenter and Goja craters: Marco: Good stuff! It's sad that we're reduced to silly things like frame-grabbing, but at least there's something there for us to play with at last. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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