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New Huygens descent views, New views of Huygens on the way down to Titan |
 May 4 2006, 04:35 PM
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May 4 2006, 04:41 PM
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I started a new thread with this info, so I am just going to merge it into this one. Here was my original post:
A whole slew of Huygens DISR views have been released on the Planetary Photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/new The big release is a movie showing the decent to the surface of Huygens using images from DISR, colorized by DISR spectrometer data. Views from different altitudes and projections were also released as well as views of the surface that have gone through more rigourous processing in the last few months. This data release by DISR, I believe, is part of, maybe not quite a special issue, but at least a series of articles on Titan coming very soon in a well known journal that puts new issues online on Thursdays... EDIT: Never mind. Completely unrelated. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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May 4 2006, 04:45 PM
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May 4 2006, 05:21 PM
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May 4 2006, 05:41 PM
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QUOTE (volcanopele @ May 4 2006, 05:41 PM)  The big release is a movie showing the decent to the surface of Huygens using images from DISR, colorized by DISR spectrometer data. Now that is extremely slick. Anyone know if a higher res movie is going to be made available? |
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May 4 2006, 06:00 PM
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A high-resolution version of the movie (both silent and with sound), can be found at http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/DISR/Multimedia/Titan_Movies.htm. Please note that these movies are in Windows Media Video format.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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May 4 2006, 06:05 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 4 2006, 10:21 AM) Oh, it's covered with them -- Huygens just didn't land near one. |
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May 4 2006, 06:43 PM
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awesome doesn't do justice. It is a hell of a set of products.
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May 4 2006, 09:34 PM
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QUOTE (volcanopele @ May 4 2006, 07:00 PM) A high-resolution version of the movie (both silent and with sound), can be found at http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/DISR/Multimedia/Titan_Movies.htm. Please note that these movies are in Windows Media Video format. I had problems playing these with Windows Media Player 10 despite the fact that they are WMV format - VLC to the rescue 
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May 4 2006, 10:18 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 4 2006, 09:21 AM) Like this?
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| Guest_Richard Trigaux_* |
May 5 2006, 06:12 AM
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What is interesting is that at last they suceeded in processing the complete image, including the one of the bottom camera, which was very hard because of uneven lighting. So we have the complete view now.
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May 8 2006, 12:58 AM
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Massive release on the photojournal.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08117 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08118 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08116 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08115 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08114 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08113 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08112 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08427 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08119 Here is my Phil-O-Vision take on the after-landing image. 
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May 8 2006, 02:01 AM
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Interesting: in the descent movie you can see they used an elevation model to add relief. I'm surprised though by how much they have the light colored 'islands' standing out above the surrounding dark colored 'sea'. I had always pictured that being much flatter looking at the images.
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May 8 2006, 04:12 AM
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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08117
"During its descent, the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer took 3,500 exposures. " ??? There were about 600 visual images in the raw image catalogue. If half the exposures were lost with channel A, does that mean that there were ~1000 spectral images? |
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| Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
May 8 2006, 05:26 AM
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Most of those "exposures" were simply spectra -- not images of any sort. (I've even seen an exact count of them somewhere, although I can't remember where.) Don't forget that a single CCD array was used for all of DISR's data: images, spectra, and even photometry.
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