Jupiter from HiRise, Wow...just wow! |
Jupiter from HiRise, Wow...just wow! |
Jan 25 2007, 01:36 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-March 06 Member No.: 722 |
I don't know if anyone's posted this yet...but it's definitely worth a re-post.
I figured they would try something like this again. http://geekcounterpoint.net/files/category-10.html Just wait until they turn that bad boy towards Earth... [Edit: Image no longer available] -------------------- Mayor: Er, Master Betty, what is the Evil Council's plan?
Master Betty: Nyah. Haha. It is EVIL, it is so EVIL. It is a bad, bad plan, which will hurt many... people... who are good. I think it's great that it's so bad. -Kung Pow: Enter the Fist |
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Jan 25 2007, 11:32 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 8-December 05 Member No.: 603 |
I can't wait to see this Jupiter picture, but in the meantime, some of the posts in this thread got me thinking about other possible targets. It looks to me like MRO could be in a position to take some nifty pictures of Ceres later this year (August-ish) at a resolution near 20 km/pixel. If I did the numbers right, this would be better than the Hubble pictures at the value of 30 km/pixel quoted in wikipedia.
Bart EDIT: D'oh! My bad! I was off by a factor of 10. Only 200 km/pixel. |
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Jan 26 2007, 09:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062 |
It looks to me like MRO could be in a position to take some nifty pictures of Ceres later this year (August-ish) at a resolution near 20 km/pixel. If I did the numbers right, this would be better than the Hubble pictures at the value of 30 km/pixel quoted in wikipedia. If, and I stress, if HiRISE were to do such a picture again, one of three things would have to happen. 1. It would have to be an extremely high priority, known about weeks or longer in advance, or 2. It would have to be near the next stellar callibration (Which I beleive is in early July). 3. The object would have to be in Martian orbit (I know there are a few calibration images of Deimos and Phobos, but they are rare). It is very difficult to plan an image that isn't pointing at Mars, there is a pretty large list of flight rules that have to be check to make sure they aren't violated, stuff like making sure it's not pointed at the sun, etc. The Jupiter image took well over a month to plan, be tested on the OTB (Basically a MRO simulator, used to make sure the spacecraft won't crash), and be uploaded to the spacecraft. I'm not saying it can't happen, just that it would take something pretty important to go through so much hassle. |
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