Rosetta - Early Orbital Operations at Comet 67P C-G, August 6, 2014 - November 13, 2014 Options

[Malmer]

Malmer, thank you so much. I'd love to share your images on Facebook with friends but I just know many of them do not have red/blue 3D glasses. Could you produce one more image that's a non-anaglyph please?

I will rerender the animations in a more user friendly way. Youtube have got 3d support so im going to experiment a little with that. You can choose from a bunch of different display modes. 3d and non 3d. I will post it here when I get it right.

[Harder]

Malmer,
in view of your fabulous comet visualisations I feel it would be most appropriate when ESA sends you a VIP invitation to attend the Philea landing event in Darmstadt!

[Mercure]

Some new NavCam images showing the plumes in spectacular detail.
CometWatch – 26 km on 26 September

It looks like the jets are impinging off the upper right lobe of the comet (the "chin" of the head). Or is that just an effect of the changing viewpoints during the capture of the four images?

[wildespace]

Managed to get Microsoft ICE to assemble the mosaic. I think it came out pretty good. Image further processed to remove noise and improve constrast.



Full-sized: http://l3.picsurge.com/o9KH6W/ESA_Rosetta_...926_stitch2.jpg

[Phil Stooke]

That's very nice. And look - a new image set from only 18 km:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/10/06/co...e-j-from-18-km/

The closer we get, the rougher it looks.

Phil

[Mercure]

Very handsome mention of Matthias' work on that ESA blog page.

[Gerald]

... a new image set from only 18 km ...

The overlap of A and D1 allowed for an anaglyph:

[SpaceScout]

The closer we get, the rougher it looks.

I absolutely agree. I just cropped out images of a boulder seen twice the 14 and 30 September (2.5 m/pixel and 1.4 m/pixel).


The boulder seems to be made of rounded blocks ~25 m wide (white arrows) reminiscent of conglomerates seen on Itokawa.
Are the strata of the comet composed of conglomerates? Did the rounded blocks accreted on the comet parent body? Fascinating object!

[wildespace]

That's very nice. And look - a new image set from only 18 km:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/10/06/co...e-j-from-18-km/

The closer we get, the rougher it looks.

Phil

ICE stitch: http://l2.picsurge.com/8rzoMg/ESA_Rosetta_...0_D1_stitch.jpg

[Phil Stooke]

I have reprojected the limb of the 'head' from the Sept. 30 image as if it is all one long straight ridge. I never expected such dramatic scenery.

Phil

[Malmer]

Todays Composite and Anaglyph:

http://mattias.malmer.nu/2014/10/comet-on-september-30/

Cool of the ESA blog to mention me like that. Bit proud of that

I'm struggling with delivery formats. How should I post the stereo animations? Anaglyph seems very 80:s tech. But youtube have managed to mess up displaying of 3d tv.
It used to be possible to just choose from all these options when watching 3d content. But now that little options menu is gone (or I cant get it to work at least on my machines)
I could post side by side stereo that would work if plugged into a 3d TV like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYTcW3ctjU. But it looks like crapola for anyone else.

I could perhaps post a fallback mono version. But then you would have to know how to find them on youtube. (my youtube fu is not very strong yet so I'm not sure on how to link them together in a coherent way.)
What do you think?

[djellison]

Probably the best way is to let people download two separate movies - a left and right eye - and then people can use something like Stereoscopic player ( http://www.3dtv.at/Index_en.aspx ) to play it in any format they choose - Anaglyph - X-Eye - Over and Under etc etc. If hosting them's a problem, I'm sure UMSF and/or TPS can help

[elakdawalla]

My Fuji 3D camera produces 3D videos in .avi format -- when I play one of these, Windows Media Player opens two synchronized video windows playing left and right eye, and I can position them side by side to view it cross-eyed or wall-eyed. Can you output in that format? It's not as good as streaming it on Youtube. I wonder if there's a way to have two Youtube windows in side-by-side players and make them play simultaneously?

(Example output from my 3D camera here, 72 MB)

[JohnVV]

-- for the NON Microsoft Windows crowd --

VLC 2.15 also will open two windows for the video
https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/emily/20110404-115900.avi

[fredk]

As far as still images, I'd vote for including the separate L and R frames, in addition to the anaglyphs. For studying fine detail, nothing beats cross-eyed (or parallel) of two ghost-free images. Of course you can always extract L/R frames from an anaglyph, but if it's in jpeg format, some residual ghosting will always be there (and most obvious in the extreme contrast of a subject like C-G). An alternative would be an uncompressed anaglyph (eg png) from which it should be possible to extract the original L-R frames without ghosting.