Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond |
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Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond |
 Jun 30 2010, 12:11 AM
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Now that the naming convention for Endeavour seem set to be for places related to Australia and Cook's 1769-71 voyage, it seemed only fitting that I get to know these locations a bit better.
I just Google-imaged Cape Tribulation and this one jumped out at me. The undulations of the hills in that view were eerily similar to Oppy's current view. 
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Jun 30 2010, 06:25 AM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Jun 25 2010, 02:33 AM)  The view is starting to be great ! This inspired me some letters insertion to form the word "Endeavour" inside the crater (and a new header for my site). Sorry Ant, this reminds me totally on a scene out of 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish' from Douglas Adams: Arthur, Fenchurch and Marvin are searching the God's Final Message, and they find it on a planet, written in gigantic letters (in front of some montains?): "We apologise for the inconvenience". "Arthur takes Fenchurch to the planet where God's Final Message to His Creation is written, and they happen across Marvin, who, because of previous events, is now approximately 37 times older than the known age of the universe and is barely able to continue. Marvin, with Arthur and Fenchurch's help, reads the Message ("We apologise for the inconvenience"), smiles, utters the final words "I think... I feel good about it," and dies happy." (Excerpt from Wikipedia.en) I don't now if Opportunity was ever so depressed like Marvin, but she is also about 25 times about her lifetime ... -------------------- Need more input ...
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Jun 30 2010, 07:21 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 30 2010, 12:20 AM) A little comparison between Cape Tribulation on Earth and on Mars.  Whoah.... that is just downright spooky....  -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2010, 10:04 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 29 2010, 08:49 PM) And we have some official names to start using, too... They got it all wrong! Hicks is on the OTHER side of the crater...  http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=17513 "I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go." Captain James Cook 
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Jun 30 2010, 10:48 AM
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QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 29 2010, 03:20 PM) A little comparison between Cape Tribulation on Earth and on Mars. Hmm...Fractally-sculpted landscapes are eerily similar, even between planets. (Great catch, man! This is indeed remarkable. )
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Jun 30 2010, 02:53 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Jun 30 2010, 03:40 PM
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Nice!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jun 30 2010, 03:50 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Jun 30 2010, 03:04 AM) "I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go." Captain James Cook Take THAT Captain James T. Kirk. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jun 30 2010, 03:54 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Oi! Don't dis the Kirk Unit.
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Jun 30 2010, 05:56 PM
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The new superres is just stunning!
To illustrate what a difference a proper treatment of the raw images makes, here's a comparison between my average of the 16 superres jpegs and the official result, both at 2x:
I'd add that the identifications of the newly named features agree with Canvin's inverse polar from several months ago. No surprize there! |
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Jun 30 2010, 07:43 PM
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It's like a veil has been lifted.
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Jul 1 2010, 01:51 AM
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Fred,
I agree! The super-res from JPL shows the beauty of working with calibrated data vs. the jpegs! Maybe MSL-Curiosity could post up calibration templates/recipes and raw data in near real time? I could wait a week between jpegs and "first-approximation raw data". cheers -------------------- CLA CLL
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Jul 1 2010, 11:51 AM
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It's often hard on Mars and indeed Titan to appeciate the size of objects as there is not often anything man made to provide the scale. Remember when we saw the "cliffs" in Oppy's landing crater, and they were like a few cm high in reality, so Ants' comparison is awesome !
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Jul 2 2010, 04:47 PM
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Some new view here :
Sol 2282  Sol 2283  Sol 2284  PS : the hires view of Endeavour from the NASA is amazing. And giving names to some part of the rim give a new dimension to this exploration .
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Jul 4 2010, 01:40 PM
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We all now know where we're heading - "Cape York" - and we all know that that feature isn't visible yet. But where will it appear on the horizon when it does become visible..? I have an idea, which I'd like more knowledgeable people here to check..?
Okay, purely by lining things up from this NASA image...
... and using Google Mars...
... I reckon "Cape York" will appear somewhere around... here...
..? Anyone agree / disagree? All input appreciated.
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