MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
Aug 28 2005, 08:59 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Hmmm...I wonder if they have done any ridiculously high resolution IMAX movies using full resolution shots of these rotations...
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Aug 28 2005, 10:17 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
If and when the Messenger data is on the PDS - I'll work it into a WMVHD movie if appropriate. I've been playing with MER imagery at 720p25 format, and it looks fab
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Aug 29 2005, 01:42 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-March 05 Member No.: 198 |
The MESSENGER team has posted a quite amazing "movie" composed of 358 images they took during their craft's recent flyby showing the spinning Earth during one complete rotation disappearing into the void.
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Aug 31 2005, 10:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
That movie is one of the most spectacular things I've ever witness...I love the sun's reflection off the ocean and land masses.
To loosely quote "Pale Blue Dot"..."Everyone who has ever lived or died, been written about...was right there" One fragile planet spinning in dark emptiness. Eric P / MizarKey -------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Aug 31 2005, 10:02 PM
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It is; it's a lovely piece of work.
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Sep 1 2005, 07:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
That little movie captures the reality of what science fiction films have been speculatively presenting for more than a half a century.
Seeing the real thing at last, in such high definition realism, is immensely moving for me. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 1 2005, 07:24 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Correct me if I'm wrong - but Messenger's imager is a 1024 x 1024 instrument isnt it? - I wonder/hope if they captured that data at full res, or downsampled it to 512 x 512. If they DID do it full res, I promise - hand on heart - to make a full resolution version when the data is released.
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Sep 11 2005, 12:36 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I was looking at the chart below. I noticed that beginning in October of next year, this mission should start getting interesting. Given the quality of the earth imagery, I am really excited about what we might see. I also wonder what if any science will be done at Venus.
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Sep 11 2005, 02:27 PM
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Quite a bit -- they even intend to use the laser altimeter to measure Venusian cloud top altitudes.
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Sep 11 2005, 05:43 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 11 2005, 02:27 PM) Thanks Bruce. My anticipation is building. Do you have any other information about Venus plans? I haven't seen much on how the Messenger instrument suit would be used. -------------------- |
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Sep 11 2005, 10:59 PM
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Several years ago, Sean Solomon told me a fair amount about it -- but I'm not sure whether that's among the hundreds of stored E-mails that I later lost in an Outlook Express breakdown. I'll check when I get the chance. Suffice it to say that they plan to use virtually every Messenger instrument that CAN be used at Venus.
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Sep 12 2005, 02:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
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Sep 12 2005, 06:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
QUOTE (um3k @ Sep 12 2005, 07:37 AM) Does that mean that we'll finally get some true (enough) color images of Venus? (really excited emoticon goes here!) It's easy to get a true color picture of Venus -- take it from Earth! Getting that with excellent resolution and the fuller phases is another matter, but the true color of Venus isn't exactly an outstanding mystery. Note that the ability to align color channels in digital processing helps enormously with the chromatic edge effects that haunted film photography. http://www.celestron-nexstar.de/referenzen..._gudensberg.jpg http://users3.ev1.net/~glennlray/Astro/Venus-20010203c.jpg http://dvaa.org/Photos/TomBash/VenusPhasesC11.jpg http://www.kk-system.co.jp/Alpo/kk04/v040511a.jpg |
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Sep 12 2005, 06:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
I know you can get them from Earth, I meant pictures taken by a spacecraft.
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Sep 13 2005, 03:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
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