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[djellison]

Frames at 10s intervals instead of the 20s intervals (iirc) they used to have.

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Duration (hhmmss)   =  00:12:45
Data Vol (Mbits)    =      0.84

Doug

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[djellison]

One thing I've often thought of is that we have these great anims from time to time, but they're not 'real time'

What would that eclipse have looked like in REAL time?

It lasted about 80 seconds end to end, so I mocked up something in 3ds Max, and uses Quicktime to add a few effects to it, and this is what it might have looked like, if seen in real time.

Doug

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 deimos_706b.mov ( 75.25K ) Number of downloads: 445

 

[ljk4-1]

One thing I've often thought of is that we have these great anims from time to time, but they're not 'real time'

What would that eclipse have looked like in REAL time?

It lasted about 80 seconds end to end, so I mocked up something in 3ds Max, and uses Quicktime to add a few effects to it, and this is what it might have looked like, if seen in real time.

Doug

Imagine future Mars colonists with various ways of racing the eclipses to keep the moons in front of Sol as long as possible, just as we do with jets on Earth.

Viking 1 had the shadow of Phobos pass right over it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_Phobos_on_Mars

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-441/ch9.htm

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-425/ch38.htm

[djellison]

Viking 1 had the shadow of Phobos pass right over it:

I know - that's why I want to see them try a Navcam movie looking at the ground during one - because we know it makes a lot of difference to the terrain.

Doug