January 24, 2007, HiRISE release Options

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

January 24, 2007, HiRISE release

[djellison]

http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/di...PSP_002101_1875

Oh my. Time for another swear box.

[Tesheiner]

> http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/di...PSP_002101_1875

Climber, that's for you!

[climber]

Climber, that's for you!

That's what I call paradise !

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

HiRISE Camera Shows Mojave Crater Peak is High and Dry
By Lori Stiles
University of Arizona News Services
January 24, 2007

[MarkL]

The swear jar has got to be overflowing today! These particular images are absolutely exquisite. The frost covered dunes, the layered scarp. The gorgeous central peak. You just want so much to be there! Nothing else matches what this incredible instrument has provided us with in terms of being able to visualize such a range of landscapes on another planet.

It seems crazy to complain but I often get lost in the scale of these images. It is difficult to judge the topography and how the terrain fits in the larger context of the region. Just how high is that scarp?

Now where are those image tools we were promised by Tuvas?

[tuvas]

Now where are those image tools we were promised by Tuvas?

Still forthcoming, I can't go into too much detail,but let's just say there was a large series of unfortunate events that have resulted in HiView being delayed. But with a bit of luck, it'll be into at least alpha-testing in the next few weeks, internal to the team, and I imagine shortly thereafter it'll be released either as a beta or just full-blown to the public.

[MarkL]

Hey no pressure! Just give us what we need! Seriously I am in total awe.

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Hey no pressure! Just give us what we need! Seriously I am in total awe.

Hey, you left out: "WE'RE NOT WORTHY, O GREAT ONE!"

[OWW]

I assume that for every HiRise image taken, there is a context image? So....why are there dozens and dozens and dozens of HiRise images, but only 5 CTX images available?

http://www.msss.com/mro/ctx/images/index.html

It looks like the whole msss site died along with MGS...

[tuvas]

I assume that for every HiRise image taken, there is a context image? So....why are there dozens and dozens and dozens of HiRise images, but only 5 CTX images available?

http://www.msss.com/mro/ctx/images/index.html

It looks like the whole msss site died along with MGS...

There isn't a CTX for every HiRISE image, although there is quite a few... MSSS is just a bit slower about releasing their data, that's all there is to it. They are allowed quite a bit of time to release their data, on the order of 6 months or so...

[djellison]

HiRISE is the tax payers peoples camera- and the policy has always been to try and get the pictures out on the web as quickly as possible. Given the size of the products, the challenge in putting them together, and the nightmare of hosting dozens if not hundreds of 1Gig+ JP2's - I think the HiWeb team is doing an outstanding job.

MARCI and CTX have never claimed to subscribe to the peoples camera philosophy and are doing basically, 'the norm'. The very occasional release, plus dumping everything to the PDS in, I presume, six month chunks - six months in arrears. (i.e. Sept '07 will see the release of Sept '06 to March '07 images )

I know money is usually very tight for outreach etc - but it's a bit dissapointing to see the number of science orbit MARCI images released stuck firmly at 1 - that single image released a quarter of a year ago.

Doug

[tuvas]

By the way, you might not want to use the term HiWeb Team, as HiWeb is a product under development that is the second product that has been repeatedly promised, but never released, that will allow for one to request locations of images to be taken on the surface of Mars with HiRISE. One of these days it'll come around, but, well, yah...

[djellison]

Doh, Hi could I forget.

Doug

[Nix]

Here's a crop of those awesome Mojave Crater peaks with the gigantic (~15 meter-sized rocks tumbling down);



Nico