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 Jan 20 2012, 08:45 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver  Group: Moderator Posts: 4045 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33  |
It appears Rosetta stuff, including the Mars flyby Osiris data, has hit the PDS. I don't have time to look at it now, but I'm downloading it. http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/holdings/
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Jan 21 2012, 12:15 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3534 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Finally...
A couple of RGB products: NAC view of Moon from 2nd Earth flyby, magnified 2x:  Full frame NAC view of Mars with Phobos and its shadow: 
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Jan 21 2012, 12:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1101 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 530 |
^ I can't believe they just sat on that Mars shot for nearly five years.
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Jan 21 2012, 01:23 AM
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 Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3965 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Nearly every shot of Mars includes Phobos. And to think these weren't shared with the world because they were "overexposed" and therefore not of any interest.......grumblegrumblegrumble......
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Jan 21 2012, 01:27 AM
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Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3965 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
OMG....is this what I think it is??? Can it be one of Mars' moons, mostly Marslit, setting behind Mars' nightside, Mars' atmosphere forward-scattering sunlight to us...? There is a TON of these, a whole animation of crescent Phobos? setting. Not sure what the source of the noise is. If my interpretation is correct, WOW.
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Jan 21 2012, 01:29 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3534 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 21 2012, 02:23 AM)  Is this a crescent view of Deimos???? The index file labels that as "Post CA Phobos Spectrophotometric". Here it is in RGB, magnified 2x:
Note that all images are mirrored so they need to be flipped. I have no idea which way north is supposed to be. -------------------- |
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Jan 21 2012, 02:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3534 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Global inbound shot revisited:
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Jan 21 2012, 04:12 AM
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Lovely. I'd like to see this or something very much like this used as the 'default' Mars image rather than that Viking photomosaic centered on Valles Marineris.
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Jan 21 2012, 04:14 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Moderator Posts: 4045 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Gordan, lovely treat. Just got home from the symphony. I will have to have a crack at these in the coming days.
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Jan 21 2012, 04:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1101 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 530 |
QUOTE (ugordan @ Jan 20 2012, 10:13 PM) Global inbound shot revisited: Love the way it gets whitish at either edge. Just beautiful. |
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Jan 21 2012, 05:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4516 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Fantastic! Thanks everyone.
The thing that looks like an earwig's posterior in the Mars shots is Gale crater. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 21 2012, 11:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3534 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Thanks for pointing that out Phil, that's one more note for the images.
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Jan 21 2012, 11:47 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
At the time of the encounter it was made known that some images of a "crescent Mars" had been taken, but hadn't been released because they were "over-exposed". I was - some may recall!
 - rather upset about that, and emailed the ROSETTA team more than once asking for the images to be released, even if they were over-exposed, because they were still of interest. Nope.Found them.
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Jan 21 2012, 01:52 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
I had just a quick look at the data, but I couldn't find what I was looking for: the raw Philae image of the orbiter with the background of Mars (to me, the best UMSF image ever!)
has anybody seen it? -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Jan 21 2012, 02:31 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
I think, that it's similar situation as in case of the Stardust' Tempel 1 images. Mars and Earth data from Rosetta are not officially released and same situation in case of the Philae lander.
QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 21 2012, 02:27 AM) OMG....is this what I think it is??? Can it be one of Mars' moons, mostly Marslit, setting behind Mars' nightside, Mars' atmosphere forward-scattering sunlight to us...? There is a TON of these, a whole animation of crescent Phobos? setting. Not sure what the source of the noise is. If my interpretation is correct, WOW. Nice findings! Ugordan: Beautiful images! -------------------- |
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