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Question regarding Huygens surface video
sittingduck
post Dec 9 2016, 08:29 AM
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Recently I found a short animation of several of the images taken of the Titan surface by Huygens after it landed:

Link to animation.

I see that several objects appear to move in and out of frame, which I have read is attributed to fluffy aerosols kicked up from the surface settling down again.

My question is, what is the explanation for the object which appears to move horizontally from left to right? If it is in fact the same object in all 3 frames from frame 11-13, it appears at (x,y) pixel coordinates (74,290), (119,291), and (212,297). Is it something on the lens, drifting to the side perhaps?

Because I do not know how this sequence of images has been combined, and whether or not they are chronological or in reverse order, or whether there are missing intermediate frames, I cannot estimate the time that passes during the movement of this small blob.

Finally, is there a table somewhere with timestamps of all the Huygens triplets?

Regards,
Nick
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- sittingduck   Question regarding Huygens surface video   Dec 9 2016, 08:29 AM
- - elakdawalla   That looks incredibly JPEGgy, so I'd hesitate ...   Dec 9 2016, 08:28 PM
- - JohnVV   that animation is of SO LOW quality that it is 100...   Dec 11 2016, 11:49 PM
- - JRehling   The jpeginess, as others noted, is far too great t...   Dec 12 2016, 05:30 PM
|- - 4throck   The image sequence (in chronological order) shows ...   Dec 13 2016, 04:04 PM
- - algorimancer   I would have expected little change in the jpeg im...   Dec 13 2016, 06:16 PM
- - belleraphon1   This may be pertinent to the discussion http://ww...   Dec 14 2016, 02:01 PM
- - Spock1108   But those white dots are snowflakes / wads of aero...   Dec 15 2016, 08:36 PM
- - alan   I recall an initial mention of the alleged motion:...   Dec 15 2016, 10:22 PM
- - 4throck   I think that the issues mentioned (jpg compression...   Dec 16 2016, 10:30 AM
- - algorimancer   The Huygens descent imager (DISR) utilized a custo...   Dec 16 2016, 04:36 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (algorimancer @ Dec 16 2016, 08:36 ...   Dec 16 2016, 05:02 PM
||- - algorimancer   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Dec 16 2016, 11:02 AM...   Dec 16 2016, 05:35 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (algorimancer @ Dec 16 2016, 11:36 ...   Dec 18 2016, 12:15 AM
|- - Explorer1   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Dec 17 2016, 04:15 PM) T...   Dec 18 2016, 03:03 AM
|- - sittingduck   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Dec 18 2016, 01:15 AM) E...   Dec 18 2016, 12:36 PM
|- - algorimancer   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Dec 17 2016, 06:15 PM) ....   Dec 19 2016, 07:15 PM
|- - Stefan   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Dec 18 2016, 01:15 AM) E...   Jan 4 2017, 02:53 PM
- - PDP8E   algorimancer, Here is a fast cosine function I use...   Dec 17 2016, 05:53 PM


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