Jupiter from HiRise, Wow...just wow! |
Jupiter from HiRise, Wow...just wow! |
Jan 25 2007, 01:36 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-March 06 Member No.: 722 |
I don't know if anyone's posted this yet...but it's definitely worth a re-post.
I figured they would try something like this again. http://geekcounterpoint.net/files/category-10.html Just wait until they turn that bad boy towards Earth... [Edit: Image no longer available] -------------------- Mayor: Er, Master Betty, what is the Evil Council's plan?
Master Betty: Nyah. Haha. It is EVIL, it is so EVIL. It is a bad, bad plan, which will hurt many... people... who are good. I think it's great that it's so bad. -Kung Pow: Enter the Fist |
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Jan 25 2007, 10:01 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Well - given that photographing the Moon with Earthshine results in the normal part of the Earth being totally bleached out - I doubt it. I imagine that there's a fairly big "keep out" zone for HiRISE pointing when it comes to the Sun - and at a time when Moonshine would be most usefull, chances are they'd be in that keep out zone.
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Jan 25 2007, 03:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062 |
Well - given that photographing the Moon with Earthshine results in the normal part of the Earth being totally bleached out - I doubt it. I imagine that there's a fairly big "keep out" zone for HiRISE pointing when it comes to the Sun - and at a time when Moonshine would be most usefull, chances are they'd be in that keep out zone. Doug That is correct. I beleive the zone is a 20 degree away from the sun keep-out zone, so it might be quite difficult. Even harder when you consider we've already taken a picture of the moon, on our way out of the Earth-moon system (Before I was a part of HiRISE...). This just happened to be a time when we had a stellar Calibration the same time as an opening to Jupiter, a lot of things that came up lucky. BTW, I don't think this picture has been officially released yet... |
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