Sol 90+, Extended mission Options

[Guest_jumpjack_*]

I see lots of cool animations in this thread!
May I ask to the authors to post them in this thread?
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...c=5510&st=0

I'm trying to collect all cool phoenix animations.
Maybe once I have much of them, I could create a standalone webpage which directly loads all of them, so you don't have to click anyone of them to see!

[djellison]

I'm trying to collect all cool phoenix animations.

Then by all means collect them. However, they belong here in this thread - in the flow with other current Phoenix discussions.

[Ant103]

That is very nice. I'm sure someone will want to colour it . . .

Here it is


It was harder that I knew to have "good" colors. So, I'm quite satisfy .

[Stu]

Great job, Ant, a keeper for sure, and that will be shown at my astronomy society meeting tonight, thanks!

Now, looking in the opposite direction, here's an anaglyph showing some recent (Sol129) trenching activities... but I have to warn you, this one will really pull you in when you look at it...

[ElkGroveDan]

That one is really good Stu. Worth calling the kids over to have a look. You guys who do slide shows with anaglyphs to groups, need to include this one.

[djellison]

Anaglyphs on screen are tricky ( had this discussion with Jim Bell in June ) - the red just doesn't work well - it's so strange. Look at a print out, and your eyes feel 'even'. Run the same image thru a projector - and the left eye feels very very dark. I spent a good hour trying to turn up the red side of an image once, with a projector to test it - and nothing changed, it's like the wavelength of red on a projector doesn't overlap perfectly with the red on the glasses.

Doug

[ugordan]

IIRC, my crappy 3D glasses have the opposite problem - the blue filter is so dark that the red eye overwhelms the other eye. I have to squint real hard through the red filter to even out the brightnesses in both eyes. Changing the color temperature setting of the screen to lower higher helps, but only slightly.

EDIT: Nevermind that, just checked and it's the same thing with me - the red filter is vastly darker than the blue.

[ElkGroveDan]

it's like the wavelength of red on a projector doesn't overlap perfectly with the red on the glasses.

Interesting I wonder if it has to do with the filaments in those high intensity projector bulbs that you find out cost $60 when they burn out the afternoon before a presentation.

[Stu]

Just a bit of fun... something to do while I make myself another hot lemon to try and get rid of this lousy cold...

Imagined Sunset

Keyword: IMAGINED. Not suggesting accuracy of any kind. Just a fantasy postcard, ok?

Wonder what a real sunset would look like...?

[djellison]

cost $60

WOW - where do you get your projector bulbs from!! They're £100-£500 here!!!

[ElkGroveDan]

They're £100-£500 here!!!

Well admittedly I was thinking of the old slide projector bulbs. I've never actually operated a modern video or PC projecter.

Ouch £500! Better hit that "off" switch in a hurry each time.

[climber]

Nice Sunset Stu
Talking about the anaglyph, the one above works beautifully! One cannot imagine how far those pict come from. They are so real.

Edited: we can basicaly see pretty well what is in the shadows. As compared to the Moon, the little martian atmosphere is enough to better let see into shadows more like on Earth. What's your feeling?

[Pertinax]

Wonder what a real sunset would look like...?

How I do hope we will soon see Phoenix send back some images such as you have imagined.

In the mean time, I couldn't help myself -- I had to have a quick go at it myself.



Hope you feel better Stu. Colds Suck!


-- Pertinax

[Jeff7]

Clouds on Mars move pretty darn slow in realtime. And the video is quite boring, and even with the interpolation it's a bit jumpy. There's just not enough data to go on.


Approximate realtime.

Compressed to about 9% of the normal time
Here you can kind of see the clouds moving. In realtime, they're really crawling.
Add whatever music suits you.


All videos use the Xvid format. The "XviD-1.1.3" link should be the right one.


Edit: Well shoot, that's weird. I skimmed through the accelerated video file, and the movement stops completely after only about 3 minutes. It doesn't do that in the full-length file though. Odd.

I'll crop it down and have a new link up shortly.

There, new link is up. Apparently that's more than 10x faster than normal speed, with over 26 minutes of movement compressed down to 2:18.

[Stu]

Colourised version of Sol 132 dust grains... more "martian jewels" for those that like 'em...