Anyone knows if there is a way to get all the raw images of the pathfinder mission without ordering the CD set ?
A source like tho one for the MER mission ?
Been googleling around for quiet a while, but found nothing but the homepage images


TIA, Dirk

http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/mpfl-m-imp...im_0001/browse/
http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/mpfl-m-imp...im_0002/browse/
http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/mpfl-m-imp...im_0003/browse/
http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/mpfr-m-rvr...rowse/rover.htm

Ahh, Thanks um3k !!
Thats what iv`e been looking for

BBC article about MPF it was this day in 1997 that the rover left the lander after another bit of 4th July mission planning.

I find it hard to believe that it was 8 years ago, this was the first mission I remember following on a daily basis on the internet.

EIGHT YEARS

I feel old

Doug

You feel old?

I remember the most exciting days of my life, waiting (with little patience) for the biggest thing that would happen during my lifetime.

I remember it as if it was yesterday.

It was 36 years ago.

Old, you say?

-the other Doug

The first mission I followed (via going to the library and pulling every scrap I could) was Phobos 2. Yes, I feel old.

So do I. I was at secondary school when it happened. I would get up early in the morning to download the images and mission reports over my 33.6 kbit modem and print them out while eating my cereal.

I'll be fifty+ by the time people are walking on Mars. No childhood memories of men on a new world for me.

I rememer going to a tiny little office in a small IT company in Tetbury, Glos, to download pictures from Pathfinder onto a floppy disk and printing them out on a dot matrix printer at home! That was joy! Then, I started at University just as Pathfinder wound-down and got all the images in the blink of an eye down the Uni connection, and put them on a Zip disk!

Now - I download MER images at home on a 2Mbit line, and put them onto DVD

I wonder what I'll be downloading with and saving to when MSL arrives.

Doug

For those of you geezers old enough to remember, NASA planned another 4th of July spectacular in 1976. That was the original intended landing date for Viking (1, I think), America's 200th birthday. Unfortunately, they were still doing reconnaissance from orbit and weren't able to settle on a landing site, so they had to delay the landing to July 20, the anniversary of the first manned lunar landing.

And talk about OLD -- I remember watching Alan Shepard's suborbital flight when I was 5 years old!

Thinking of all this - I still dont know if/how one can get from the data we have for Pathfinder via the PDS - to the equiv of a MER RAD file

Doug

To a solid state memory of 1 TB on your 100-buck computer without any moving or turning parts, that you bought at the supermarket .

The supermarket bit is already true for my laptop It came from Aldi

Doug

I'm thinking about buying an imac. But they don't sell apples at our supermarkets....now what ?

Marcel:

Our local Co-op has an *excellent* fruit and veg section!

Bob Shaw

It's true - 1.7 Gig Centrino, 80gb HDD, 1440x1050 screen, 512mb of ram ( which I've upped to 1024) and a DVDRW drive

£799 at Christmas

Doug

Which brand ?

The mighty....GERICOM

(no, I hadnt heard of them either - but it's been fine since day 1 )

Doug

So far as I know Aldi and Lidl are both doing excellent computer kit at the moment (such as very cheap USB 2 external 200Gb HDs for about £100). The Gericom laptops seem to be Medion re-brands, and they're among the best I've seen (or worked on). One word of warning with purchase from *any* non-traditional retail source - support and/or warranty issues are a bit of an uphill struggle. Not that they're any better with some of the mainstream retailers...

...how do I know? My old company provided contract support for the blighters, and I heard many complaints from customers. A high proprtion of the complaints were not entirely reasonable, as if you've bought a highly inexpensive PC from a cut-price grocery supermarket then it's not really likely that somebody in-store will be able to answer your questions, is it? And it really was quite good kit!

Never been off topic THAT far

My fault: Sorry Pathfinder, you did not deserve that.

Thanks for the tip though......I will monitor Aldi closely from now on