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Posted by: Oersted Jun 12 2008, 10:30 AM

Hi all,

I thought we should have a thread with all the major-publication publicized images and APOD's made by UMSF members. We really bring Space to the public and we should be proud of it!

I would like for each entry to contain:

1) a <100kb photo of the image itself + its name.
2) a link to the real-size image.
3) the UMSF user name(s) of the creators.
4) a link to the UMSF thread(s) where the image is presented/discussed.

I want to list the images chronologically, so if you can help me out with thread contributions in the above-described format, I'll insert those contributions to this first posting.

Thanks a lot, and here goes:

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“Spirit” cover on Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine: 14 November 2005. Article: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/11145p1.xml
Also appeared in New Scientist, http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/183/id/598/l/nl-be and http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051128.html.
Real-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0511/husbandhill_av3_spirit_big.jpg
Made by: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Doug Ellison (djellison), Bernhard Braun (nirgal) and Kenneth Kremer (mars loon)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1674

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Victoria’s Secrets Revealed in Color in Aviation Week: 2 Oct 2006
Also http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061002.html
Full-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/victoria1_opportunity_big.jpg
Made by: Bernhard Braun (nirgal), Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Ken Kremer (mars loon) and Doug Ellison (djellison)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3282

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Clouds and Sand on the Horizon of Mars, APOD 2006 October 17
Full-size image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/marshorizon_opportunity_big.jpg
Made by: M. Howard (mhoward), T. Öner, D. Bouic & M. Di Lorenzo (dilo)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3324


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APOD March 13 2007 "Attacking Mars": http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070313.html
Full-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/hillaryoutcrop_spirit_big.jpg
Made by: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Doug Ellison (djellison), Bernhard Braun (nirgal) and Kenneth Kremer (mars loon)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1674&st=140


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Opportunity descends into Victoria Crater, Aviation Week & Space Technology, July 2007, article hhttp://www.mcgraw-hillaerospacedefense.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw070907p2.xml&headline=Rover%20Ready%20for%20Dangerous%20Descent%20After%20Dust%20Storm.
Full-size image: http://www.zip.com.au/~gjn/MERSFX/Images/oppy_descendsvictoria.jpg
Made by: Astro0, Doug Ellison (djellison).
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4337&st=60&p=94014&#entry94014

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Roving again: Opportunity at Victoria Crater: 3 September 2007 in Aviation Week & Space Technology
Also in Spaceflight, January 2008: http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/183/id/1651/l/en-us
Full-size image:
Made by: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo) and Ken Kremer (mars loon)
UMSF threads: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4542, http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4687&st=7

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A Path Into Victoria Crater, APOD, 2007 September 4
Made by: Eduardo Tesheiner (Tesheiner)
Full-size image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/victoriaroad2_opportunity_big.jpg
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4542&st=0&p=98037&#entry98037

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[Image?]

Opportunity at the Bright Band on Sol 1307: 8 October 2007 in Aviation Week & Space Technology
Full-size image:
Made by: Ken Kremer (mars loon) and Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4687

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Phoenix Mosaic: 9 Jun 2008 Cover for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine Article: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw060908p1.xml&headline=Phoenix%20Imagery%20Reveals%20North%20Polar%20Plain
Also appeared as http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080612.html.
Full-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/PhoenixMosaic_h_9Jun08.jpg
Made by: Ken Kremer (mars loon) and Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5221&st=0

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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/armpanels_phoenix.jpg

Phoenix Digs for Clues on Mars, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080615.html
Full-size image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/armpanels_phoenix_big.jpg
Made by: James Canvin (jamescanvin)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5218&st=117

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Remember, this thread is a work in progress, help me out here!

There must also be Cassini images I don't know about... So, add your info to this thread!

Posted by: jamescanvin Jun 12 2008, 10:43 AM

QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 12 2008, 11:30 AM) *
I would like for each entry to contain:

1) a <100kb photo of the image itself + its name.


Any chance you edit your post to follow your own advice - those first two in-line images are over that. The first is over 1MB! I'm going to make them plain links for now to help dial up users, feel free to make it a thumbnail link if you wish.

Posted by: ngunn Jun 12 2008, 11:51 AM

QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 12 2008, 11:30 AM) *
I thought we should have a thread with all the major-publication publicized images and APOD's made by UMSF members.


I think this is an excellent idea. I hope you will include RPascal's Huygens mosaic which was much reproduced and which helped Jason Perry locate the landing site.

One of my favourites from APOD was called something like Clouds over Meridiani, an image produced in four stages by four different UMSFers.

Another category for inclusion could be images that win competitions run by NASA, ESA etc. or on sites like TPS (Ciclops, spacEurope?)

Posted by: PhilCo126 Jun 12 2008, 05:09 PM

Via this topic I would like to thank those UMSF members again who helped me illustrate my yearly MER-articles for the monthly Spaceflight magazine of the British Interplanetary Society... we even made some cover(s) wink.gif



http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1649/l/en-us

Posted by: Oersted Jun 12 2008, 06:53 PM

QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jun 12 2008, 12:43 PM) *
Any chance you edit your post to follow your own advice - those first two in-line images are over that. The first is over 1MB! I'm going to make them plain links for now to help dial up users, feel free to make it a thumbnail link if you wish.


Sorry James, I'm a technical newbie when it comes to this forum software. I thought only the smaller-size file was loaded, when the forum software makes the automatic reduced-size photo. My mistake!

I have a couple of questions:

- How do I make the thumbnail link you talk about?

- Is it possible to have such a thumbnail image link to an attachment to another posting? I would like the attached image in post # 4 of this thread http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1674 to appear as the image in the entry for that front page.

Thanks a 1,000,000.

Posted by: Oersted Jun 12 2008, 07:47 PM

QUOTE (ngunn @ Jun 12 2008, 01:51 PM) *
I think this is an excellent idea. I hope you will include RPascal's Huygens mosaic which was much reproduced and which helped Jason Perry locate the landing site.

One of my favourites from APOD was called something like Clouds over Meridiani, an image produced in four stages by four different UMSFers.

Another category for inclusion could be images that win competitions run by NASA, ESA etc. or on sites like TPS (Ciclops, spacEurope?)


Hi there ngunn,

I need some more pointers to threads or so, to find those images you're talking about by RPascal and the one called clouds over Meridiani.

Regarding the idea about including more sites, I think it would be best to stick to publications and APOD, because otherwise I fear the first posting will become far too long. We are that good! smile.gif I agree it is rather arbitrary though, because all those other sites are equally worthwhile of course.

I guess it will also make sense to just include images by "space amateurs". We have quite a few mission members (among them of course MarsEngineer), but they get images published not as UMSF members, but as mission members, JPL employees, etc.

I hope some more UMSF'ers will pop by this thread, and help finding the pics!

Posted by: ngunn Jun 12 2008, 07:58 PM

Hi! Here's the APOD one:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061017.html

I'll have to dig for the other.

Posted by: ngunn Jun 12 2008, 08:17 PM

Here's the Huygens one:

http://www.beugungsbild.de/huygens/huygens_mosaic_final.html

And in a moment I'll find a UMSF post with that link.

Here it is, copied from a 'search members posts' for RPascal:
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One of the most exciting questions for me is, if the radar swath data will result in a definite decision how the Huygens mosaic and Cassini ISS/VIMS correlate.
Some month ago I tried to find this correlation, with the result that I felt I had to introduce a relatively large calibration mismatch to find a good visual agreement of Huygens and ISS. But now it has come to my knowledge that Huygens radar, as well as radar tracking of Huygens from earth, seems to be in good agreement with the timer height calibration, so it looks as I have to give up this idea.
http://www.beugungsbild.de/huygens/ISS_huy...correlate3.html

Does anybody know what radar resolution is expected at the Huygens landing site?
Will ISS also obtain some high resolution images?

--René
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IIRC Jason cited this image in the official literature relating to the Huygens site location. Before this, and just after Huygens landed, an earlier version of the same Pascal mosaic featured in much of the press coverage.

Posted by: Oersted Jun 12 2008, 09:54 PM

ngunn, I added the Clouds and Sands image, thanks again!

Even though the Huygens is probably the one with the most scientific merit of them all, it doesn't quite fit in his thread. But wauw, it really is something! Didn't know an UMSf member made it.

Now, if somebody could explain me how I can add an image of an attachment from another posting... smile.gif

Posted by: Astro0 Jun 12 2008, 11:09 PM

When Opportunity was poised to enter Victoria Crater (just before the storm hit), I did this SFX image, seen in this http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4337&view=findpost&p=94014.



It was picked up by AWST - story http://www.mcgraw-hillaerospacedefense.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw070907p2.xml&headline=Rover%20Ready%20for%20Dangerous%20Descent%20After%20Dust%20Storm. They also used the image as a double page spread in their July 2007 issue.

The full image is still available on my old http://www.zip.com.au/~gjn/MERSFX/indexSFX.html webpage.

Astro0

Posted by: Tesheiner Jun 13 2008, 07:57 AM

QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 12 2008, 08:53 PM) *
- How do I make the thumbnail link you talk about?


Two possibilities.
First one: Include an image (thumbnail or not) in the post using the "Insert Image" button. It will add a "code" like:
CODE
[img]http://www.thesite.com/link.to.the.thumbnail.image.jpg[/img]

Then, select the whole code and add a link using the "Insert Link" button. The "codes" will look like this:
CODE
[url="http://www.thesite.com/link.to.the.big.image.jpg"][img]http://www.thesite.com/link.to.the.thumbnail.image.jpg[/img][/url]


Second one: Include an image in the post using the attachment options. Important: it should be smaller then 200x200 pixels. Images that small are *not* reduced by the forum's sw and don't look like an attachment.
Then, select the whole attachment and add a link using the "Insert Link" button. The "codes" will look like this:
CODE
[url="http://www.thesite.com/link.to.the.big.image.jpg"][attachment=14666:1R266590...1314R0M1.jpg][/url]


Now, speaking of published images, once I was really surprised to find one of my "dirty" mosaics at APOD.
APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070904.html
UMSF: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=4542&view=findpost&p=98037

Posted by: ngunn Jun 13 2008, 08:17 AM

QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 12 2008, 10:54 PM) *
Even though the Huygens is probably the one with the most scientific merit of them all, it doesn't quite fit in his thread. But wauw, it really is something! Didn't know an UMSf member made it.


I can see the point. As far as I know Rene Pascal created the Huygens mosaic first and joined UMSF subsequently to discuss the issue of locating the site in Cassini images. But it's significant I think that he did come here, where Jason is also a highly valued active member.

If my version of history needs correcting I hope one of the principal players will step in!

Posted by: volcanopele Jun 13 2008, 09:26 AM

Sounds about right.

BTW, do my APOD images count? If so, and you can find which are mine, you get a cookie laugh.gif

Posted by: Oersted Jun 15 2008, 09:34 AM

QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 13 2008, 01:09 AM) *
When Opportunity was poised to enter Victoria Crater (just before the storm hit), I did this SFX image, seen in this http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4337&view=findpost&p=94014.

[...]

Astro0


Thanks Astro0, it's added!

Posted by: Oersted Jun 15 2008, 09:47 AM

QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 13 2008, 09:57 AM) *
Second one: Include an image in the post using the attachment options. Important: it should be smaller then 200x200 pixels. Images that small are *not* reduced by the forum's sw and don't look like an attachment.
Then, select the whole attachment and add a link using the "Insert Link" button. The "codes" will look like this:
CODE
[url="http://www.thesite.com/link.to.the.big.image.jpg"][attachment=14666:1R266590...1314R0M1.jpg][/url]


Thanks for those explanations Tesheiner. What I REALLY need to be able to do, is to link to an image that has been used as an attachment in another person's posting. Is that in any way possible?

QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 13 2008, 09:57 AM) *
Now, speaking of published images, once I was really surprised to find one of my "dirty" mosaics at APOD.
APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070904.html
UMSF: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=4542&view=findpost&p=98037


Added!


Posted by: Oersted Jun 15 2008, 09:49 AM

QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jun 13 2008, 11:26 AM) *
Sounds about right.

BTW, do my APOD images count? If so, and you can find which are mine, you get a cookie laugh.gif


Well, I'm overweight, so not pining for cookies smile.gif

Could you please offer some linkage?

Posted by: Oersted Jun 15 2008, 09:59 AM

QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jun 12 2008, 07:09 PM) *
Via this topic I would like to thank those UMSF members again who helped me illustrate my yearly MER-articles for the monthly Spaceflight magazine of the British Interplanetary Society... we even made some cover(s) wink.gif



http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1649/l/en-us


Added, thanks!

Posted by: Oersted Jun 17 2008, 09:17 AM

QUOTE (ngunn @ Jun 16 2008, 11:14 AM) *
Here's why it's better. Draw a diagonal from top left to bottom right of the whole image and divide it in the golden ratio. You're right in the back of the scoop! Now add a vertical and a horizontal through that point (both similarly divided of course). The lower left rectangle neatly contains the solar panel. Next draw the diagonal of this rectangle and extend the line of the robot arm to meet it. There you have (more or less) a right angle close to bottom centre of the view - the two lander components, passive and active, (yin/yang?) counterposed in the most dramatic possible configuration. That's why this version, and Astro0's, works so well.

EDIT: You have to click on the APOD picture to get the whole composition - and to discover that it's James's mosaic.


And I've just added it to the "UMSF published Images and APODs thread":

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5235

However, I now have a problem: I am not allowed to add more images to the first posting in that thread sad.gif

I wonder if it would be possible to make an exception to the posting rules, because I think it IS very helpful to have a single posting with all those pics.

Great job getting the APOD James!


Posted by: ngunn Jun 17 2008, 10:17 AM

QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 17 2008, 10:17 AM) *
I wonder if it would be possible to make an exception to the posting rules, because I think it IS very helpful to have a single posting with all those pics.


Interesting policy question here. Doug, I know you've said in the past that UMSF is not intended as an archive or a reference source. Yet undoubtedly some of us use it as such from time to time. It strikes me that what Oersted wants to do here is indeed to create an archive - in this case one that is particularly pertinent to the expanding outreach function of this forum, and therefore a particularly worthy case.

Would you be willing to entertain the idea of a subforum called 'Archives' in which an individual member could, by agreement, set up and maintain a read-only thread of this kind? It seems to me that this would be ideal for what Oersted wants to do, and others may come up with their own equally deserving suggestions. A list of members willing to be identified as professionals involved in space missions might be one. A list of mentions of the forum in the professional literature might be another.

Posted by: Tesheiner Jun 17 2008, 10:27 AM

QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 17 2008, 11:17 AM) *
...
However, I now have a problem: I am not allowed to add more images to the first posting in that thread sad.gif

I wonder if it would be possible to make an exception to the posting rules, because I think it IS very helpful to have a single posting with all those pics.


Mmm, I see a problem with too many pictures: bandwidth. I, among others, have dial-up at home (still on the middle-age!!!) and the first post, even keeping the images at/around 100KB, takes a lot of time to load. I would suggest a different approach: Make a mosaic with all the pictures, include it on the first post, and change the current pictures by links.

Another idea: Change each image by a thumbnail linking to the real picture.

Posted by: Oersted Jun 17 2008, 04:54 PM

I'd like thumbnails, but that wouldn't change anything, since I've hit the ceiling on the number (not size) of pictures.

Posted by: djellison Jun 17 2008, 08:17 PM

QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 17 2008, 10:27 AM) *
Mmm, I see a problem with too many pictures: bandwidth.


And, forum rules don't have exceptions. There isn't a magic ' except for this thread ' button on the rules. Do it in multiple posts. One post with a million images is not a forum post anymore - it's trying to make a web-page out of a forum post. A commendable thread, no doubt, but it's just not something the forum can accomodate. A forum wiki, however, would. That's a thought.




Doug

Posted by: ngunn Jun 17 2008, 09:49 PM

I hope there is a way forward for this worthy enterprise. Glad you're on the case Doug.

Posted by: Ian R Jun 17 2008, 10:15 PM

I am delighted to be able to add one of my own images to this thread; namely my mosaic of the Apollo 15 landing site. Tony Reichhardt of Air & Space Magazine has written a piece detailing the recent photographic survey of Hadley Rille and its environs by the Japanese Kaguya probe:

http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Apollo_Revisited.html

Tony contacted me and kindly asked if he could use the mosaic in his article, which I readily agreed to in an instant:

http://www.airspacemag.com/photos?c=y&articleID=19979884&page=4

Posted by: Astro0 Jun 17 2008, 10:53 PM

I may have a possible solution.
Outside the forum a few of us have been talking about an Outreach resource website.
There are lots of members here who give talks and presentations and produce resources that I'm sure they'd be happy sharing.
A page that includes a gallery of UMSF created images that have appeared in publication is certainly something that I think fits into the Outreach category.
Rather than glogging up UMSF, the moderators could pin a thread for Outreach Resources, where such things could be discussed and then materials hosted through the proposed Outreach website.

What do you think?

Astro0

Posted by: hendric Jun 18 2008, 02:26 PM

That would be a great idea. I think this would be a good thing for the Planetary Society to host, but it might be hard for them to allow random ppl to edit. I would love to be able to download Doug's, Stu's, etc. presentations, along with some of the awesome movies created here.

Posted by: dmuller Jun 19 2008, 12:59 AM

The Outreach resource website Astro0 is referring to can easily accommodate the indexing of such images and it can be searched by keyword etc. Since it's a ground-up design, it can also be modified. Thus indexing the images is definitely possible, I am just not sure how many supersized images it can hold on the server and bandwidth issues. The webhost as such is quite good but some of the images can be rather large

Posted by: hendric Jun 19 2008, 07:56 PM

Server and bandwidth issues can easily fixed by throwing money at them. (Ask, and ye shall get paypal'ed!) The bigger concern is maintenance and governance. That's why I suggested TPS.

Posted by: dmuller Jun 22 2008, 06:15 AM

Something along these lines? (Sorry Stu for pinching your artwork)

Search results (search for +phoenix):


Item description:


Tags / keywords need to be managed for consistency (the more ye get paypal'ed the more ye have time to work on it ... also gives time for db maintenance etc). Server hosting can be outsourced. Governance would probably use a "moderated democratic" approach through feedback / rating / reporting.

Posted by: Stu Jul 4 2008, 05:28 AM

Does having an image featured on http://www.spaceweather.comcount..?

They've very kindly used a couple of my 3D Phoenix images today... smile.gif

Oh well, I'm proud of it, anyway...

Posted by: jamescanvin Jul 12 2008, 09:18 AM

Does this count? smile.gif

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/11/1195385.aspx

Posted by: imipak Jul 12 2008, 12:19 PM

Even more so when it's the front-page lead story on a "name" news site..!



Posted by: jamescanvin Jul 12 2008, 12:49 PM

Wow, well spotted, I knew it was on the sci/tech page but it wasn't on the front page of the whole site earlier.

That bumped the hit rate up a bit, over 1000 views on that image on my site in the last hour alone!

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Jul 12 2008, 01:22 PM

I suspect the UMSF hits are going to go up as well since they linked to Astro0's Cape Verde post directly.

Posted by: nprev Jul 12 2008, 01:51 PM

Yep...98 people on right now (11 members), and it ain't even 0700 PDT on a Saturday morning yet. Emily's blog got a nice bump in that article, too! smile.gif

Posted by: Stu Jul 18 2008, 02:30 PM

I know it doesn't 100% count as 'published' but I'm chuffed that http://www.spaceweather.com has very kindly used another of my Phoenix anaglyphs today... smile.gif

Posted by: nprev Jul 18 2008, 02:38 PM

Congrats, Stu! smile.gif Very nice write-up, too!

(Yes, gonna go get the glasses today, finally; nasty week at work, couldn't sneak out early enough to make the trip & still beat traffic home. It's Friday, things are slow...heh, heh, heh...)

Posted by: Stu Jul 23 2008, 07:27 AM

Does having my http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/22/carnival-of-space-63/count..?

Naah, thought not... wink.gif Chuffed by it anyway.

Posted by: Astro0 Jul 23 2008, 10:52 AM

Stu, if it gets used beyond this forum then I think it counts!
Look how times we've all been on Emily's PS blog wink.gif

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Jul 23 2008, 03:08 PM

Good one Stu!

Posted by: Astro0 Jul 29 2008, 12:20 PM

UMSF contributor and space art genius, http://www.donaldedavis.com/ has a Phoenix panorama published in the September 2008 edition of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine. It serves as the background to the article.


Posted by: Stu Nov 12 2008, 08:37 AM

WOW! GREAT work guys!!!

Today's APOD:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/PhoenixHolyCowMosaicAPOD.jpg


Posted by: PhilCo126 Nov 12 2008, 11:13 AM

Thanks for sharing... I've entered some UMSF mosaic work for my 7th article on MER operations (to be published BIS Spaceflight magazine of January 2009)

Posted by: dilo Nov 12 2008, 06:27 PM

Is a honor to see such image as Phoenix epitaph!
Thanks guys and thanks to Ken for perfect timing in submission. biggrin.gif

Posted by: PhilCo126 Jan 6 2009, 01:33 PM

Well, proud to announce the 3rd MER-related cover for BIS Spaceflight magazine:




Posted by: PhilCo126 Jan 7 2009, 04:34 PM

Well, it's official now: http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1920/l/en-us

Thanks again for the help of Alan Martin, Eduardo Tesheiner, Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer for their assistance in getting high resolution versions of these images!!!

Posted by: Paolo Jan 7 2009, 04:41 PM

Wow! An issue with Phillip, Asif and Dwayne all together. This is going to be one of the best in months!

Posted by: mars loon Jan 7 2009, 06:23 PM

QUOTE (Paolo @ Jan 7 2009, 05:41 PM) *
Wow! An issue with Phillip, Asif and Dwayne all together. This is going to be one of the best in months!


I also have a 2 page MSL article in that issue (p. 44-45) , in addition to the Oppy cover mosaic and others co-created by Marco and me. i'll be posting images and lecture update shortly.

ken

Posted by: imipak Jan 7 2009, 08:18 PM

I finally got round to joining the BIS a couple of months ago for /exactly/ this sort of thing. Thanks (and congratulations) to everyone involved!

Posted by: Stu Mar 31 2009, 01:34 PM

Does this count?

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/30/bouncing-boulders-on-mars


Posted by: imipak Mar 31 2009, 07:49 PM

Very nice!

Posted by: Stu May 18 2009, 05:53 PM

... and I'm gonna claim this, too...

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/18/poetry-in-space-final-pilgrims-to-the-hubble-space-telescope

smile.gif

Posted by: mhoward May 18 2009, 06:34 PM

Stu, you've made me into a poetry fan.

Posted by: Pavel May 18 2009, 06:49 PM

Beautiful! Stu, your poem made my eyes teary. I hope the astronauts will read it.

Posted by: Tesheiner May 18 2009, 07:23 PM

QUOTE (Stu @ May 18 2009, 07:53 PM) *
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/18/poetry-in-space-final-pilgrims-to-the-hubble-space-telescope

... by Nancy Atkinson. Mmm, are you sure you're not relatives? wink.gif

Posted by: Stu May 18 2009, 07:28 PM

QUOTE (Pavel @ May 18 2009, 07:49 PM) *
Beautiful! Stu, your poem made my eyes teary. I hope the astronauts will read it.


Actually, it was given to them before launch by a KSC guy I know on Facebook, so I'm pretty sure they read it.

Which is nice. smile.gif

And no, no relation. Honest. laugh.gif

Posted by: cbcnasa May 19 2009, 01:38 PM

What an moving poem to go with the fantastic images. I am excited to see what visions come when Hubble reopens its eye.

Posted by: nprev May 20 2009, 12:26 AM

Beautiful work, Stu...and for what an audience! smile.gif

Posted by: Stu Jun 23 2009, 01:35 PM

Very honoured to have my two Hubble poems featured on the Hubble Heritage website smile.gif

http://heritage.stsci.edu/commonpages/art/literature/index.html

Posted by: PhilCo126 Oct 21 2009, 07:52 AM

Which are the latest UMSF images released to the "general public" ?
I believe I saw UMSF images on SpaceflightNow.com unsure.gif



Posted by: S_Walker Oct 22 2009, 11:13 AM

QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Oct 21 2009, 02:52 AM) *
Which are the latest UMSF images released to the "general public" ?
I believe I saw UMSF images on SpaceflightNow.com unsure.gif


There will be a 7-page article in the January 2010 issue of S&T featuring UMSF images, authored by Emily Lakdawalla.

A good read!

Sean Walker

Posted by: PhilCo126 Dec 2 2009, 10:20 AM

Well, it's official another UMSF.com image has made the cover of BIS' monthly Spaceflight magazine:
The January 2010 will be available at News & Magazines agents from 16th December...
It's a great article which mentions UMSF.com as suggestions poured in how to extract Spirit.
I've thanked everybody involved: Dan Maas, Doug Ellison, Ken Kremer, Marco di Lorenzo, Alan Martin, Eduardo Tesheiner, Glen Nagle...
Thanks again!
wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/2101/l/en-us

Posted by: paxdan Dec 2 2009, 10:43 AM

A quick reminder that UMSF.com is a different website. This is unmannedspaceflight.com or UMSF, but not UMSF.com.

Posted by: djellison Dec 2 2009, 11:23 AM

Quite. Call it UMSF if you like (I do). But do NOT call it UMSF dot com. That used to be a church website I believe, since mvoed to a .org, and the .com URL is now for sale for about $5000

Posted by: PhilCo126 Dec 2 2009, 12:58 PM

Got me scared there... ohmy.gif Re-checked the article and I did mention our favorite site as " unmannedspaceflight.com "
(a forum of online community of unmanned spaceflight enthusiasts)

Special thanks to Dan Maas, James Canvin, Glen Nagle and Stuart Atkinson...

cover credits:
Artist compilation © Glen Nagle
Mosaics © James Canvin, Stuart Atkinson
Raw data © NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M
Original Rover art © MAAS Digital LLC

Posted by: Stu Feb 9 2010, 10:53 PM

Apparrently I got "BoingBoing" 'd... is that good?

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/09/the-chocolate-hills.html


Posted by: nprev Feb 9 2010, 11:05 PM

So it would seem. biggrin.gif Congratulations, Stu, VERY well-deserved!!!

Posted by: ngunn Feb 9 2010, 11:09 PM

Boing, Boing . . .Bon!

Posted by: ustrax Jun 24 2010, 08:37 AM

Didn't know where to put this but since this is a prize shared for, at least, 5 UMSFers...here it goes.
http://beyondthecradle.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/seti-superstar-award/

Posted by: scalbers Jun 25 2010, 07:02 PM

Perhaps this one would fit where my Iapetus map makes an appearance?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5964/432

Posted by: ustrax Aug 26 2010, 09:03 AM

I made this! smile.gif
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/kepler/posts/post_1281039347499.html

Posted by: Lunik9 Oct 16 2010, 02:46 PM

Covers made by forum-members for the British Interplanetary Society's monthly Spaceflight magazine:

 

Posted by: Oersted Oct 31 2010, 09:16 PM

Hey all,

OK, I'm pretty stoked by this one. A classical violinist from Italy, Riccardo Minasi, saw my APOD of the Pantheon in Rome (see my sig). He liked it so much that he wanted it on the cover of his latest CD. Who was I to say no to that? smile.gif His record label paid me a handsome sum for the photo, but more than the money It feels really nice to have made a CD cover. I am guessing there won't be many of those in the future, so it was now or never... smile.gif

CD cover by a UMSF member, would that be a first? laugh.gif

http://www.grooves-inc.com/product_info.php/products_id/688434154/language/en


Posted by: ElkGroveDan Oct 31 2010, 09:23 PM

Awesome! Congratulations Soeren.

Posted by: Stu Oct 31 2010, 10:09 PM

Congratulations, well done! That's a definite first! smile.gif

Posted by: nprev Oct 31 2010, 10:32 PM

Hey, that's really cool! Congratulations!!!

Posted by: ngunn Oct 31 2010, 10:50 PM

Very well deserved. Every time you post I'm newly thrilled by that image, made possible by an almost impossible building which in itself embodies an astronomical theme given a new astronomical twist by clever photography. I hope the musician understands all the layers. Is the music any good? Heck, I may buy it for the cover anyhow.

Posted by: PDP8E Oct 31 2010, 11:02 PM

That indeed was an awesome image Soeren -- Congratulations!

Posted by: cbcnasa Nov 1 2010, 01:13 PM

Removed full inline quote - Mod


Congratulations on the work and the CD cover smile.gif

Posted by: Ron Hobbs Nov 1 2010, 05:25 PM

ESA published Emily's collage of asteroids and comet nuclei on its web page "Call for media: reacting to the threat of asteroid impacts."

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM4RWPOHEG_index_1.html

Congrats to Emily. smile.gif

I see Ted Stryk's name through the credits as well.

Posted by: Oersted Nov 1 2010, 09:47 PM

Thanks for all your comments guys, warms the heart!

QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 1 2010, 12:50 AM) *
I hope the musician understands all the layers. Is the music any good? Heck, I may buy it for the cover anyhow.


You can actually listen to snippets of the music here on the record label page of the CD:

http://www.passacaille.be/CD.aspx?ID=85

As to whether Mr. Minasi understands all the layers of the image. Well, he is from Rome, I believe, and would then know the Pantheon very well.

Posted by: ustrax Nov 2 2010, 09:36 AM

Wether you fancy Carl Sagan or not here's something where several UMSFers are involved:
http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/

Being behind the curtains on this I am really proud to see how people put their hearts into it... smile.gif
Stu, Nick, Lyford...thank you for everything!

Posted by: ustrax Nov 5 2010, 08:14 AM

AHH! What a glorious day for UMSFers!!! Looks like we've take the bridge of the USS Kepler Starship! wink.gif
Lyford at the keyboards, NPrev and Stu shooting word artillery and I well...I'm feeling like tattoo at fantasy island! biggrin.gif
http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/

Posted by: DFinfrock Nov 6 2010, 12:13 AM

Wow! Nick and Stu... such marvelous writing. And Ustrax (or should I say, Tatoo) thanks for telling me about "zee plane, zee plane"! smile.gif

I never would have seen it if you hadn't pointed it out to me.

Posted by: nprev Nov 6 2010, 02:12 AM

Thanks, man! (insert blush emoticon here.) All kudos to Rui & the Kepler project for providing the opportunity; it's a humbling thing, was very honored.

But I'm the pollywog among some big frogs indeed in this pond. Lyford's score is not only professional in its quality, but it hits all the right notes in your heart...haunting, beautiful.

Stu's story is...God, please, just read it, everybody. I still see the images he wove, and won't ever forget them.

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Nov 6 2010, 06:21 AM

Stu........ !

Posted by: nprev Nov 6 2010, 06:44 AM

Exactly.

Posted by: Stu Nov 6 2010, 07:11 AM

Thanks, guys. I am quite pleased with how that story turned out. smile.gif

And Nick, don't you dare put yourself down like that. Your essay is extremely personal and deep, deep from the heart, which makes it a fine piece of writing.

As for Lyford's music, well, it's now on my phone and I'm looking forward to listening to it next time I go up to the castle to stargaze.

Posted by: Explorer1 Nov 6 2010, 08:36 AM

A great story, Stu! I guessed the twist kinda quickly, but even so!
Just a minor correction though: 51 Pegasi b (the first found orbiting a normal star) was discovered in 1995, a year before his death, so I'm sure Carl knew about extrasolar planets.
But that's a tiny nitpick!

Posted by: Stu Nov 6 2010, 08:59 AM

Yeah, bit of a clue the story being part of celebrations of Carl Sagan's life, hard to get around that! laugh.gif

Good point on the 51 Peg date, that totally slipped by me. Put it down to "artistic licence" wink.gif

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Nov 6 2010, 04:15 PM

As one who used to do a pretty good Sagan impression, my only concern is that in your story he didn't say "billions."

Posted by: Stu Nov 6 2010, 04:18 PM

Oh, it was hard stopping myself, trust me! laugh.gif

Posted by: centsworth_II Nov 6 2010, 10:41 PM

QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Nov 6 2010, 12:15 PM) *
...he didn't say "billions."

There's a whole section on this in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Billions_and_billions

He actually said "billions" a lot. And I'm sure he eventually ended up saying "billions and billions" later on, by request.

"...his frequent use of the word billions, and distinctive delivery emphasizing the "b".... made him a favorite target of comic performers.... and his final book was entitled Billions and Billions which opened with a tongue-in-cheek discussion of this catch phrase...."

You can actually read his "discussion of this catch phrase" in the Amazon "Look Inside!" function.
Click on "first pages" on the left.
http://www.amazon.com/Billions-Thoughts-Death-Brink-Millennium/dp/0345379187#reader_0345379187

Posted by: nprev Nov 6 2010, 11:12 PM

The hell of it is that no matter how many times he said "billions" he was still generally understating most things astronomical... tongue.gif

Boy, there was sure no one like him before or since, and we were so extremely lucky to have him. Peace, Carl.

Posted by: Oersted Nov 7 2010, 01:29 AM

What do you guys think of:

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/videos.html

?

Posted by: Explorer1 Nov 7 2010, 06:57 AM

It's been posted before... to critical acclaim I might add...

Posted by: Juramike Mar 15 2011, 01:48 PM

A clip from Stephen V2's movie is today's (March 15, 2011) APOD. It features images done by several UMSF members:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html

Posted by: dilo Mar 15 2011, 05:17 PM

QUOTE (Juramike @ Mar 15 2011, 02:48 PM) *
A clip from Stephen V2's movie is today's (March 15, 2011) APOD. It features images done by several UMSF members:

Great congrats to all authors, the HD movie is simply breathtaking (I can barely imagine its effects in a IMAX theatre...!) rolleyes.gif

Posted by: nprev Mar 15 2011, 11:52 PM

Think I just saw a preview of next year's must-see IMAX! cool.gif

Posted by: Stu May 2 2011, 05:49 AM

Congratulations to Bjorn on having his incredible GRS image used for today's Astronomy Picture Of the Day! :-)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110502.html

Posted by: Stu May 13 2011, 05:08 PM

Congratulations to ugordan for having his Mercury mosaic featured on Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy" blog today! Well deserved!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/13/jaw-dropping-mosaic-of-mercurys-battered-beautiful-face/

Posted by: brellis May 13 2011, 07:52 PM

*picks jaw back up* wow!

Posted by: nprev May 14 2011, 12:29 AM

Extremely well-deserved, Gordan. That image is my work computer desktop so I can explore it during slow moments! smile.gif

Posted by: Juramike Aug 5 2011, 12:59 AM

Massive congratulations to Bjorn for getting his Voyager mosaic as a Planetary Photojournal image!!!

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14412

Posted by: Oersted Aug 14 2011, 01:19 PM

That Mercury composite is indeed amazing!

Posted by: Stu Feb 8 2012, 09:16 AM

Congratulations to ugordan for having his absolutely gorgeous Enceladus pic featured on APOD today...!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod

Posted by: ugordan Feb 8 2012, 09:34 AM

Thanks, Stu. If you like that one, you'll love http://www.flickr.com/photos/10795027@N08/5416863210 from the same encounter as well. Shows the entire south polar region whereas in my single frame composite it was out of the frame...

Posted by: brellis Feb 8 2012, 02:12 PM

Well-deserved congrats, and a Q: in these pics, it looks like some of those ridges in the center of the image are raised, but that couldn't be true, could it? I have this problem all the time looking at images of craters, wonder if there's a 'smarter' way to perceive them?

Posted by: ngunn Feb 8 2012, 02:42 PM

QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 8 2012, 02:12 PM) *
I have this problem all the time looking at images of craters, wonder if there's a 'smarter' way to perceive them?


Rearrange the lighting in your room so it's coming from roughly the same direction as the illumination in the image you're viewing. This helps the brain to make the right assumption.

Posted by: john_s Feb 8 2012, 05:11 PM

However those Saturn-lit features in the center of the disk *are* raised- they really are ridges. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010DPS....42.1602P have suggested that they result from thrust faulting.

John

Posted by: machi Apr 24 2012, 04:53 PM

Congratulations to Ian for his glorious animation of Lutetia, which is today's http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120424.html
(but for unknown reason is my name under it, I suppose, that this error is based on changing names mentioned in Emily's http://planetary.org/blog/article/00003448/).

Posted by: jasedm Apr 24 2012, 06:24 PM

Simply magnificent - congrats to Ian (and machi!) who are both unfailingly reliable in terms of turning raw data into fantastic images/movies for our delectation within 48 hours of any significant encounter - thanks both!

Posted by: jamescanvin Aug 9 2012, 02:16 PM

A number of news sites picked up my version of the first MSL horizon navcams yesterday. That I know of:

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/13187816-tour-the-martian-mojave-in-3-d?chromedomain=cosmiclog

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/08/3d-navcam-curiosity.html (picture of the day)

http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2012/08/08/01008-20120808DIMFIG00323-les-premiers-instants-martiens-de-curiosity.php (4th image in the album) (was on front page of website for a while)

Posted by: Tesheiner Aug 9 2012, 02:50 PM

Wow! Congratulations. smile.gif

Posted by: nprev Aug 10 2012, 01:23 AM

Great stuff, James!!! Congrats!!!

Posted by: jamescanvin Aug 17 2012, 01:07 PM

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13321407-rover-reveals-more-of-martian-peak featuring EdTruthan, me and an UMSF shout out in general, currently has a prominant link on the MSNBC homepage. Hits on my site have gone through the roof. smile.gif

Posted by: nprev Aug 17 2012, 02:27 PM

Well done again, James! Heck, you might be heading for a permanent gig over there! wink.gif

Posted by: tedstryk Aug 20 2012, 03:36 PM

Amazing, James.

Posted by: dilo Aug 22 2012, 09:35 AM

Looking to educational pages in the MSL site, I just discovered they used our "Clouds and Sand on the Horizon of Mars" mosaic (APOD 2006 October 17) as backgroung image of "Imagine Mars" gallery: http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov/
Happy to see it but I cannot see any credit! sad.gif

PS: http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/21/13399924-curiosity-points-to-mars-destination?lite featuring Ken/mine panoramas from NavCam.

Posted by: kyokugaisha Nov 5 2012, 11:13 AM

Blimey, if I'd known my image was going up on http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121105.html today I would have cleaned up the colour bleed around the limb! ohmy.gif


Posted by: Stu Nov 5 2012, 11:40 AM

Congratulations, great pic. smile.gif

Posted by: djellison Nov 5 2012, 04:33 PM

QUOTE (kyokugaisha @ Nov 5 2012, 03:13 AM) *
if I'd known .....


Not the first time they've not checked in with someone before publishing their work. In my case - a new version of the Columbia Hills DTM movie was rendering at the exact moment they decided to put my older version on their website. Had they checked in first, I'd have asked them to wait a day or two and they could have had something even better.

It's a very odd practice.

Great mosaic though!!

Posted by: ugordan Nov 5 2012, 04:49 PM

Their source often seems to be Emily's blog so what gets posted there usually ends up being what's reposted at APOD.

Posted by: kyokugaisha Nov 5 2012, 05:18 PM

Oh, I'm definitely not complaining! smile.gif

Just reminded me of the little flaws in the image my eyes are always drawn to. We could probably tweak stuff without end but have to draw the line at some point.

Posted by: Bjorn Jonsson Nov 5 2012, 07:58 PM

Great mosaic - the Cassini PDS stuff is a treasure trove for anyone who likes to process raw data into beautiful images/mosaics/color composites etc.

QUOTE (kyokugaisha @ Nov 5 2012, 05:18 PM) *
We could probably tweak stuff without end but have to draw the line at some point.

Yes, this is very familiar.

Posted by: Stu Nov 21 2012, 02:23 PM

A rather gorgeous new calendar features a rather gorgeous image of Europa created by our very own Ted Stryk... and it was produced in cooperation with The Planetary Society too... smile.gif

Review and ordering details here...

http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/calendar-review-the-year-in-space-2013


Posted by: Ant103 Feb 20 2014, 11:07 AM

Maybe I can update this thread ^^

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140218.html

Posted by: stevesliva Jul 6 2014, 01:02 AM

Ted Stryk is credited for a two-page Europa mosaic in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic.

Posted by: geckzilla Jul 6 2014, 06:05 PM

QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 5 2012, 12:33 PM) *
Not the first time they've not checked in with someone before publishing their work. In my case - a new version of the Columbia Hills DTM movie was rendering at the exact moment they decided to put my older version on their website. Had they checked in first, I'd have asked them to wait a day or two and they could have had something even better.

It's a very odd practice.

Great mosaic though!!

I might have some insight. As you already know, there are two editors. When Bob picks one of my Hubble pictures to go up, I have received a nearly empty email with just a link to the APOD in the staging area. One time Jerry picked one and I didn't get an email. So both of them have different ways of doing things. That's not to say that Bob always sends emails and Jerry never sends them. That's just my experience. Anything more I could say would be conjecture, which I will do next responding to Gordan.


QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 5 2012, 12:49 PM) *
Their source often seems to be Emily's blog so what gets posted there usually ends up being what's reposted at APOD.

(Begin conjecture.) I could guess that this might explain the lack of contact. It could be that if it goes on Emily's blog it becomes a kind of public resource. If Emily posted it, APOD should also have no permission problems, and this could easily be assumed to be a final image and she probably provided any extra information that they would have otherwise requested. (End conjecture.)

That said, they won't know you have issues if you don't let them know. If you ever notice any mistakes or lack of credit or anything, do email Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. Copy them both on any message. They usually fix text errors before the day is over. I don't know if they will update an image after it's already up unless it is factually incorrect. I have heard a few morsels here and there about the sensitivities they have to keep in mind which I won't get into publicly but I do know they care a lot about getting things right and not upsetting anyone, even though it still happens from time to time. (Jesús Maíz Apellániz has had his double last name mistaken for a middle + last name and abbreviated to J. M. Apellániz at least twice now for reruns of Pismis 24... Poor guy! I confess I find this slightly amusing.)

Posted by: Juramike Jul 6 2014, 09:21 PM

QUOTE
Ted Stryk is credited for a two-page Europa mosaic in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic.


Tooting my own horn a bit but, there is actually another UMSF connection to the National Geographic article: I was a member of of Penny Boston's scientific expedition to the Cueva de Villa Luz sulfide cave mentioned in the text. I was in the back seat of Michael Limonick's (the author of the National Geographic article) car as they were rushing to the airport; struggling to get all the chemical sonde datafiles converted and downloaded while we bounced violently over the omnipresent Mexican speedbumps and the sonde batteries were quickly dying...

Pix of our part of the expedition can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/sets/72157638939184283/

UMSF is everywhere.

Posted by: tedstryk Jul 7 2014, 11:39 AM

QUOTE (Juramike @ Jul 6 2014, 10:21 PM) *
Tooting my own horn a bit but, there is actually another UMSF connection to the National Geographic article: I was a member of of Penny Boston's scientific expedition to the Cueva de Villa Luz sulfide cave mentioned in the text. I was in the back seat of Michael Limonick's (the author of the National Geographic article) car as they were rushing to the airport; struggling to get all the chemical sonde datafiles converted and downloaded while we bounced violently over the omnipresent Mexican speedbumps and the sonde batteries were quickly dying...

Pix of our part of the expedition can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/sets/72157638939184283/

UMSF is everywhere.


Awesome! I'm going to have to pick up a copy.

Posted by: stevesliva Jul 8 2014, 02:54 AM

QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jul 7 2014, 06:39 AM) *
Awesome! I'm going to have to pick up a copy.


I was wondering if this was news to you... I thought they may just have found the image they wanted and pulled it with the full attribution.

Posted by: tedstryk Jul 9 2014, 06:22 PM

It wasn't news to me...I knew they were going to use it, but not when or how.

Posted by: PFK Jul 12 2014, 05:46 PM

QUOTE (Juramike @ Jul 6 2014, 10:21 PM) *
Tooting my own horn a bit but, there is actually another UMSF connection to the National Geographic article:

Enjoyed the NG article, and as someone who has dabbled in sulfur (in one form or another) for the last 30 years I have to say I'm decidedly jealous of making an expedition like that sad.gif

Posted by: geckzilla Sep 19 2014, 04:36 PM

Ted's image today at APOD is nice. Apparently we are having a km / mi mixup again, though. Also, as usual, I am having a very hard time finding the original posting of the image.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140919.html

Posted by: tedstryk Sep 19 2014, 08:40 PM

I had nothing to do with the sizing of these four images, but yes, it is clearly way off.

Posted by: geckzilla Sep 19 2014, 10:35 PM

I probably could have gathered that if I had put a little more thought into the whole thing. Fact checking is in short supply all around...

Posted by: Astro0 Dec 23 2014, 05:38 AM

Our much missed mars_stu (Stuart Atkinson) hits APOD with his processing of the http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141223.html image. smile.gif

Posted by: tedstryk Dec 24 2014, 01:15 PM

QUOTE (Astro0 @ Dec 23 2014, 05:38 AM) *
Our much missed mars_stu (Stuart Atkinson) hits APOD with his processing of the http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141223.html image. smile.gif


Congrats, Stu!

Posted by: charborob May 12 2015, 12:33 PM

Damia is on http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html today. Félicitations!

Posted by: Ian R Jul 26 2015, 03:47 AM

Oh God! I hate listening to my own voice, let alone watching myself appear on the BBC's flagship tech programme!

Yet here it is, ladies and gents: my appearance on Saturday's edition of 'Click', in which I discuss stumbling across new rings of Saturn, as well as providing a little insight into how I transform raw images of both Saturn and Pluto into (hopefully) eye-catching color composites. Fast forward to 9:12 for the segment in question ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b064cxb8/click-25072015

For US viewers, check out the BBC WORLD NEWS schedule:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldnews/programmes/schedules/northamerica

And yes: I did manage to squeeze in a reference to UMSF that *DID* make the cut smile.gif

Posted by: Ian R Jul 26 2015, 04:48 AM


Posted by: jamescanvin Jul 26 2015, 09:30 AM

Nice work Ian! I take it my cheque is in the post. laugh.gif wink.gif

Two great UMSF references with it being mentioned in the subsequent astronomy segment as well. smile.gif


Posted by: dvandorn Jul 26 2015, 02:34 PM

Aw, gee -- and I was just flipping through the on-screen program guide on my cable TV service looking for some actual news (it's getting to be a lost cause watching the American cable news networks if you want to see actual news) and I am afraid to say I passed by the BBC World News channel because it wasn't the news segment, it was the Click show.

I'll have to see if they're re-running it later. I rarely see anything about my real life (things like this forum) spilling out into the world everyone else sees. It's reassuring to see it happen. Thanks, Ian!

-the other Doug

Posted by: hendric Jul 27 2015, 04:44 PM

Congrats Ian!

Posted by: Explorer1 Jul 29 2015, 01:22 AM

Here's a short clip that can be accessed outside the UK:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33678001
Got a quick glimpse of our forum handles too!

Posted by: centsworth_II Jul 29 2015, 01:43 AM

QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Jul 28 2015, 08:22 PM) *
....Got a quick glimpse of our forum handles too!
Guess this one caught your eye!


Great job Ian!

Posted by: PDP8E Jul 31 2015, 02:34 AM

I was watching the BBC short segment and I grabbed my mouse... except it was my cell phone, and it did not respond like my mouse should have ... this is the second time this has happened in few months ... does anybody else think their cell phone should behave like a mouse? or is this a future App waiting to be invented?

Posted by: Explorer1 Jul 31 2015, 02:46 AM

I wouldn't know; I'm still on a flip phone. It'll probably be pried from my cold dead hands too...

Posted by: Tom Dahl Feb 28 2016, 01:48 PM

Congratulations to Thomas Appéré, Jan van Driel, Ian Regan, and Emily Lakdawalla for images published in the December Solstice issue (Volume 35, Number 4) of The Planetary Report. Nice images! (I hope I didn't miss any other UMSF folk in that issue - lots of images.)

Posted by: Ian R May 18 2016, 06:42 PM

I think belated acknowledgement and congratulations are due for Bjorn's magnificent achievement of making it to the front cover of Sky & Telescope (or at least his Voyager GRS composite did, anyway). cool.gif

The cover of the March 2016 issue:



http://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-the-march-2016-issue/

Posted by: nprev May 18 2016, 08:53 PM

...I did not know. Spectacular!!! Congratulations, Bjorn! smile.gif

Posted by: JRehling May 18 2016, 09:20 PM

Superb, Bjorn! Of course, your work is always superb, but now it's superb in a new venue.

Posted by: stevesliva May 18 2016, 10:15 PM

That is awesome! Plus it's fantastic to see such a great glossy from an image that's older than I am by a few years.

Posted by: algorithm May 19 2016, 06:32 PM

Absolutely fantastic front cover, the personal sense of gratification must be immense, yet I don't recall any mention of the upcoming front cover image ever being mentioned in the 'Coming Soon' thread.

A talented yet, modest man it would seem. smile.gif

Posted by: Tom Dahl Oct 3 2016, 11:15 PM

Congratulations to Mattias Malmer for the use of his shape model of comet 67P featured in today's http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161003.html interactive visualization from ESA.

Posted by: Explorer1 Feb 9 2017, 10:00 PM

Some familiar names in this new press release for a inspiration campaign: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2995/a-valentine-from-cassini-with-love/

Posted by: Gerald Jun 7 2017, 06:05 PM

Three JunoCam PJ06 image/video products, which have been selected as APODs within a little more than a week, thanks to Seán:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170529.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170603.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170607.html


Posted by: Floyd Jul 15 2021, 11:49 AM

Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter--Movie by Gerald Eichstädt featured on Day in Review. Congratulations Gerald!!!

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ride-with-juno-as-it-flies-past-the-solar-systems-biggest-moon-and-jupiter?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=daily20210714-1

Posted by: Tom Tamlyn Jul 16 2021, 02:21 AM

Wonderful. Swear Jar.

The Juno images are such rich sources of pareidolia that it's rarely worthwhile to mention specific instances.

But did anyone else see a troop of horses, one with a rider? And a seated goblin worthy of Maurice Sendak?

Question: Are those flashes lighting?

Posted by: Ron Hobbs Jul 16 2021, 04:27 AM

My question is, are the lightning flashes based on data from JunoCAM, or are they an artistic flourish?

Posted by: Tom Tamlyn Jul 16 2021, 02:13 PM

While I’m no longer keeping up with every development, I understand that the Juno mission has observed dark-side lighting with its Stellar Reference Unit, but I believe that the extent to which lightning is visible in Junocam images has been the subject of lively discussion on UMSF.

Posted by: Floyd Jul 16 2021, 08:04 PM

In the JPL writeup it states "Using information that Juno has learned from studying Jupiter’s atmosphere, the animation team simulated lightning one might see as we pass over Jupiter’s giant thunderstorms". So artistic flourish based some observational data.

Posted by: Tom Tamlyn Jul 16 2021, 09:52 PM

Thanks Floyd, and my apologies to the forum for not reading all the way to the end of the description.

Posted by: Floyd Jul 17 2021, 12:45 AM

No problem Tom, I usually skip the writeup and go strait to the images or figures myself.

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