Hayabusa data released!, AMICA images, shape model, and more Options

[elakdawalla]

Hayabusa's data has been released!

Press release: http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2007/0424.shtml
Site for data: http://hayabusa.sci.isas.jaxa.jp/

The release includes the AMICA (camera), NIRS, LIDAR, and XRS data, plus SPICE kernels and the shape model!!!

AMICA data (from http://hayabusa.sci.isas.jaxa.jp/amica.pl) is in FITS format. There is an observation log with basic information about each image, available through that link.

Unfortunately, I have to return to bed to attempt to overcome a bout of the flu so I can't play I knew this was coming yesterday and wanted to check for it and let you guys know about it. Have fun.

--Emily

[CosmicRocker]

These are some really amazing images. Many thanks to the Hayabusa team for making them available. I first read about it on Emily's blog, and was impressed with the animation of a rotating Itokawa that was made by Øyvind Guldbrandsen. It occurred to me that it wouldn't be difficult to turn that animation into an animated anaglyph, which I just finished. To make it a less tedious task I used the 57-frame animation that Emily posted rather than the original 169-frame version. Still, making 57 anaglyphs in one day with Photoshop is a new record for me.

This animated GIF is a little over 3 MB. I may not be able to leave it up for a long time because it uses a large part of the small amount of server space my ISP allots to me.

[elakdawalla]

This animated GIF is a little over 3 MB. I may not be able to leave it up for a long time because it uses a large part of the small amount of server space my ISP allots to me.

Cool stuff, cosmicrocker! I will probably blog this sometime this week, so I reposted it on our site -- people, you can go here for CosmicRocker's animation if you want to avoid killing his server.

--Emily