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[brianc]

Does anyone have the original webcast or TV feed coverage of the Spirit and Opportunit EDL landing events (or links to these), the only one I can find is a short MPEG on the MER site that links an Animation with a few clips of JPL control center and a somewhat broken-up commentary by Mr Lee.

[edstrick]

I have essentially complete NASA TV converage of the MER landings and the Stardust comet flyby and Cassini arrival and Titan arrival. That includes pre-encounter and post encounger/landing etc press briefings as well as the real time converage.

These were taped on quasi-super-VHS from DirecTV. The quality is quite decent, but I'm convinced that all the lower-viewership channels are overcompressed, resulting in soft details and fine textures that break up into quasi-geometric mottling. They're saving bandwidth for the *big game* etc.

I'm about to take all coverage of Deep Impact on DVD-R, which should eliminate further degradation of the signal by tape.

I also have fairly complete NASA-TV Voyager Neptune coverage on VHS from a C-Band satellite, if the tapes haven't degraded in the last 16 years.

I'm in no position at the moment to dub the tapes to DVD, but I'll be able to do that later, though I'm not sure when. I'd like to make them available, but it's not going to happen for a while. I'm oversubcribed with elderly family, work, and everything else.