Sol 3 and onwards - imaging |
Sol 3 and onwards - imaging |
May 28 2008, 06:27 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Keeping with the practice of sol-by-sol discussions, here it is.
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May 28 2008, 06:34 PM
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LOL The press have such short attention spans. The mission has hardly started and most of them have gone. lol
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May 28 2008, 06:35 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
Well, its getting to the point where they are saying "Well, here's a picture of the same part of Mars..." I don't expect them to do daily press briefings for much longer. We'll be better served by reading their web sites and blogs.
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May 28 2008, 06:36 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Not Sol 3 related - but it's a graphic image pulled out by Adobe Soundbooth of the Melacom recording from MEX If I had to guess, the bright part that finished at the bottom of the 'trough' would be the plasma 'blackout' period and the kink on the 'up' slope the 'chute deployment or the switch from 8k to 32k. The wider, brighter area covering most of the signal period, perhaps noise from HRSC or Spicam.
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May 28 2008, 06:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
It is probably the "You mean, we have to report from Tucson?" syndrome.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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May 28 2008, 07:24 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Actually, a lot of the press from JPL were headed out to Tucson. They may just have run out of questions. Most of them are now heading on to Florida to cover Shuttle launch, I think.
--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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May 28 2008, 07:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
Not Sol 3 related - but it's a graphic image pulled out by Adobe Soundbooth of the Melacom recording from MEX heh,.. when I played the file, my audio player's default visualisation module kicked in and produced this (it didn't fit onto one screen's width so I've crudely pasted chunks from two screenshots together to get the whole thing.) As scientific as a newpaper horoscope, of course but I notice the same harmonics (if that's what they are) show up in both visualisations though. EDIT: Hmmm, Doug's shot shows a curve after the "bounce", whilst mine shows a straight line. Logarithmic vs. linear vertical scale perhaps? Any mathematicians in the house? -------------------- --
Viva software libre! |
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May 28 2008, 07:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
It looks as though you and Doug have discovered a new subatomic particle.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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May 28 2008, 08:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 20-January 06 Member No.: 652 |
It looks as though you and Doug have discovered a new subatomic particle. A Phoenon? -------------------- |
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May 28 2008, 08:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
Doug discovered it first... I suppose that makes it Doug's Boson!!
*rimshot* FX: *tumbleweed*, silence broken only by the sound of the wind whistling across the desolate Vastitas plain, the weather tell-tale slaps forlornly against the met mast... -------------------- --
Viva software libre! |
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May 28 2008, 09:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
LOL The press have such short attention spans. The mission has hardly started and most of them have gone. lol A few media outlets (worst of all, DrudgeReport) overhyped the mission with headlines like "Life on Mars?" which would naturally give the readership a hangover when they find out: that absolutely no evidence of any kind has yet been collected by the mission; that the instruments on the mission are not even capable of detecting life when they do start operating. For those people who read headlines alone, the discovery of life on Mars is already ancient history, even though it never happened. But it will continue to "happen" every few years. |
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May 28 2008, 09:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
I'm just curious, and horribly addicted: Which site get the images posted first? University of Arizona or NASA?
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May 28 2008, 09:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
University of Arizona seems to post the images as they are received on Earth, nearly real time. Definitely first.
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May 28 2008, 09:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Emily, the workspace mosaic you said you couldn't on your blog, is it this one: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=529&cID=8
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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May 28 2008, 10:04 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Thanks. I was looking at the NASA site for images and it wasn't there. How did you find it? I don't see it in any of the various galleries on the Phoenix site either...
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