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[Tman]

Wow Emily, you are fantastic!

It is very nice to browse over in this way. I guess, in this form, you could it even deliver back to JAXA for a nice mite

In the Cruise phase page currently I get only black images when I click on a thumbnail.

Edited: There are still more of these dark images, I guess they need yet a tonal value adjustment.

[ngunn]

For me that amazing 3D animation updates by halves - top, bottom, top, bottom . . . Can anyone advise how to avoid this?

[djellison]

Sounds like a symptom of a sluggish machine that can't play a big anim-gif - I can make a .mov of it tonight now if I'm a bit cheaky at work waiting for videos to render that should solve the problem for you as long as you can play quicktime movies. One option - save the gif and load it in Quicktime. Other option - just load the attached quicktime movie instead

Doug

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 Itokawa_3d_guld_swul_57.mov ( 340.91K ) Number of downloads: 1247

 

[ngunn]

Brilliant, thanks Doug.

[belleraphon1]

These data were released in FITS format. I downloaded it all and used IMG2PNG to convert it to PNG format (thanks, Bjorn!!). I created browse pages and downloadable Zip archives of the entire data set.

This is sort of an experiment to see if people like this and find it useful. I'd appreciate feedback.

http://planetary.org/explore/topics/hayabusa/rawdata.html

--Emily

Absolutely fantastic job, Emily. I would call this a very successful experiment just from the angle of getting data out to those of us who can be a bit tschno-challenged at times.

Beautiful stuff... what a fantastic little space craft... what strange and wonderful visions of that little rubble pile in space..... this is a true treasure trove and the folks at JAXA and ISAS should be proud.

Hope they bring her home.

Craig

[tedstryk]

Great job making it accessible!

[elakdawalla]

In the Cruise phase page currently I get only black images when I click on a thumbnail.

Edited: There are still more of these dark images, I guess they need yet a tonal value adjustment.

Since the images are 16-bit, for a lot of them, all the pixel values are pretty near the black end of the histogram. Just adjust the contrast in whatever imaging software you prefer.

And you're welcome, guys. This is relatively easy for me to do, because it takes very few brain cells, only quick and accurate clicking, typing, and downloading, and some tricky uses of batch processing software, and Excel text editing functions to create the html for me. I can easily do it while the rest of my brain (and, often, one of my hands) is occupied entertaining the baby. In payment all I ask is that you post some more nice image products that I can share on the blog.

Got any requests for other data sets that would be valuable to have done this way?

--Emily

[CosmicRocker]

That truly is excellent, Emily. We're all grateful that you had that one hand free. As for other datasets that you might do, I'm not sure what is available, but might be interesting to see imagery from some neglected mission that we could try to work with. I suspect someone will have specific suggestions.

Thanks to all for the kind comments on the 3D animation. I'm glad people enjoyed it. ElkGroveDan: Regarding your suggestion, I probably won't get around to it until I retire later this year.

[4th rock from th...]

Emily, thanks for the work in making the data accessible with all the info needed for us who like to do a little image processing.

These are my results, based on the nice 16bit PNGs Color saturation is as in the original data, only gamma was adjusted and some unsharp mask was used.

Perhaps processed image such as these could be made accessible next to the raw data. For my part, these images can be used freely, just add "processed by R. Nunes" to the credits.

As for some other datasets, that's a great idea... perhaps it would be easier to start at the beginning, with older missions, because the data volume is lower and the images much less circulated in an accessible form. Off course, as discussed on other topics, much of the stuff doesn't even exist any more. Anyway, just three suggestions: Giotto and Vega, Phobos, Pioneer (PVO, 10, 11).

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[elakdawalla]

Thanks, 4th rock, and they're duly blogged!

I'll have to look in to these other data sets and see if I can work with them. Doing Hayabusa was facilitated by the fact that I could download all the data in a day or two, and then batch-convert the files with IMG2PNG. I agree that starting from as far back as possible is a great idea, for both of the reasons that you mention.

I think it's a nice idea to post processed views next to the raw data, except that these raw data pages are generated automatically from the Excel spreadsheet of the image metadata. Adding in processed versions will require more hand-editing and maintenance than I really want to do.

--Emily

[nop]

Dear Emily and Guys,

Thank you for your excellent images and movies! We Japanese are grateful for your providing eye-friendly data.

Here are some more images and movies mostly by Japanese fans. Sorry that they are written in Japanese,
but I hope you'll enjoy images at least.

Stereograms:
http://yunzu.qee.jp/sitefolder/copages/itokawa/itokawa.html

Wireframe animations:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~ken-ishi/3D-Itokawa.htm

Plug-ins for 3D Polygon Modeler Metasequoia (http://www.metaseq.net/metaseq/index.html):
http://www.imasy.or.jp/~imae/kagaku/itokawa.htm
http://wanderer.jp/metasequoia/index.html

Celestia data (converted by Chris):
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10984

And my recommendation is a Google Earth file provided by Dr. Hirata (Hayabusa Science Team). Itokawa is floating over ISAS
http://kumano.u-aizu.ac.jp/~naru/Itokawa_slope_over_ISAS.kmz

Enjoy!

[CosmicRocker]

Thank you, nop. I especially enjoyed Dr. Hirata's kmz file. I was expecting a sample return, but I had no idea the plan was to bring the whole thing back home.

[tty]

There are a lot of papers on Hayabusa freely available here:

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/vol_issue/nels/AN10446455_en.html


all in japanese unfortunately....

[Stu]

Emily,

That pic on the Planetary Society blog showing Itokawa and ISS to the same scale has to be one of the coolest things I have ever, ever seen. Thanks!

[ugordan]

Just for the fun of it (and increase of the "me too" factor here), here's my go at the cool Hayabusa Earth image. I couldn't resist - there aren't that many interplanetary spacecraft images of Earth and even fewer ones that catch a glimpse of my puny country


Big thanks goes to Emily and her raw page for saving me the trouble of getting a FITS plugin!