Winter Quarters, at Low Ridge Haven |
Winter Quarters, at Low Ridge Haven |
May 9 2006, 02:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Water fowl have nothing to do with this topic. Now that you mention it, waterfowl really do make a mess of things. If any of those show up we're done for. The only thing worse for a rover's solar panels than ducks, would be parking it under an olive tree. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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May 9 2006, 02:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
ljk - Stu knows that, which is why he said 'ducks' afterwards as a metaphor for the incoming slap from me, as I'm usually the one who shouts "OI - IT WASN'T BLOODY DUST DEVILS" Doug Nobody tells me anything. And now you're saying that dust devils have BLOOD in them?! So that's why Mars is so red.... Do I really have to put a smiley face in here? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 9 2006, 02:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2918 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I'm usually the one who shouts "OI - IT WASN'T BLOODY DUST DEVILS"
Doug I Hope your' not too nervous waiting for the next one! I mean "quote", not DD -------------------- |
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May 9 2006, 06:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2816 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
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May 9 2006, 06:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Oh, no. Cr*p c*rcles! Maybe it's the Bird 'Flu...
Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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May 9 2006, 07:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2816 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
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May 9 2006, 07:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
3.7m!!! Wow... at that size, you could paste the full-resolution hard copy to curved backing boards and build yourself a nice diorama. Come to think of it, wouldn't a diorama like that be perfectly at home a few feet behind (and half-encircling) a desk + computer(s)? -------------------- --
Viva software libre! |
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May 9 2006, 09:12 PM
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Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
I could get used to a background like that
Stu Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
http://500px.com/sacred-photons & |
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May 9 2006, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Here is the mosaic after brushing on Sol 830. Taken with the Mi camera. jvandriel It is so dirty, full of powder. I cannot see anything from the surface. Does the RAT have no brusher to clean them? Now I realized that it is not a stone surface. Oh. anyway. it is so sticky (some humidity or the sands has some cohesive properties). Rodolfo |
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May 9 2006, 10:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Thanks for the comments on the SFX image.
The full-size image is now online at my webpage. I had to compress the JPG file a little because I've run out of space at my ISP account. Hmm, maybe it's time to actually register a domain name and get some room to grow. Just as an aside about panoramas as wallsize images. At the DSN Complex where I work we have a full-scale replica of the Rover displayed on a simulated Mars surface with a 6-metre by 2-metre (20-feet x 6-feet) background panorama taken by Spirit from the top of Husband Hill. The effect of the Rover sitting in front of this spectacular image (with some SFX enhancements; extended sky etc) is amazing. I'll have to take a photo of it and post it here later. Any good commercial printer that can do large-format printing can work with images like the McMurdo pan. At a final print resolution of 100dpi you can easily bump up the scale of this image to beyond your average wallsize. It may cost you between $1-$2K to produce it on a good medium like 2-3mm foamcore, but the final effect would be well worth it. Astro0 |
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May 9 2006, 11:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Any good commercial printer that can do large-format printing can work with images like the McMurdo pan. At a final print resolution of 100dpi you can easily bump up the scale of this image to beyond your average wallsize. It may cost you between $1-$2K to produce it on a good medium like 2-3mm foamcore, but the final effect would be well worth it. Astro0 AstroO: Do you have *any* idea how much a divorce costs? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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May 10 2006, 01:48 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 136 Joined: 13-October 05 From: Malibu, CA Member No.: 527 |
Yup, a $2K picture of Mars with Rover at my house would land me in court in a heartbeat. I get heavy flack over an 8x10, the priorities are so different. "Normal people just don't overdose on multiple pictures of some damned machine running around on Mars!" "Just how many do you need?" And so it goes... |
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May 10 2006, 02:01 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10145 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
"Just checking up on the rovers, dear!"
"Are those *&^%*%^$ things still going?" Phil (I'm kidding, of course... ) -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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May 10 2006, 02:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Gee, now I'm going to be responsible for divorces.
Well, if your partner doesn't like Mars and Rovers, maybe you weren't meant to be together anyway (really kidding!) I'm fortunate that my wife is extremely understanding. I know that I have to be, as she is a fanatical Superman fan/collector. So she has no grounds for complaint...as long as I don't complain. Of course, the $1-$2K is in Australian dollars, probably much cheaper elsewhere in the world. But then what price do you place on enjoying feeling like you're on Mars. Here's a shot of our exhibit at the Canberra DSN. There's still some Mars-like soil to put in to finish it off. The public are just amazed by how large the rover actually is...they expect it to be like a small toy. Mind you, they had no idea about the size of Sojourner either. Astro0 |
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May 10 2006, 02:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
"Another rock! How Exciting!" But then I threaten her with taking up model railroading instead....
Astro your SFX site is beautiful! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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