Just saw the ad for that today on DC
Looks very cool.
Looks very cool.
...Hence my user title.Kmarion wrote:
The track used in the When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions promotions is 'Gimme Shelter' by the Rolling Stones.Poseidon wrote:
Hmm, where have I heard that song before...Kmarion wrote:
Japan has also really stepped up it's contribution to the ISS (Kibo laboratory).
Side note: Discovery Channel June 8th
http://www.google.com/search?q=when+we+ … =firefox-a
That'll be to watch on my new HDTV.
One small thing, so far all these colour photographs are "false colour". I mean shit, how hard is it to install a real colour camera onto the thing? Especially if you're a multi billion dollar budgeted organisation.
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They had to scrap that and use the money for gas.Mek-Stizzle wrote:
One small thing, so far all these colour photographs are "false colour". I mean shit, how hard is it to install a real colour camera onto the thing? Especially if you're a multi billion dollar budgeted organisation.
:S
Real cameras probably wouldn't work on Mars. The technology they are using to transfer the images may not be able to transmit full colour images and they probably scraped a lot of "useless" stuff to make the rover lighter / more versatile.Mek-Stizzle wrote:
One small thing, so far all these colour photographs are "false colour". I mean shit, how hard is it to install a real colour camera onto the thing? Especially if you're a multi billion dollar budgeted organisation.
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A lot of pictures from space aren't taken in the visible spectrum, so that's why those are 'false color'.Mek-Stizzle wrote:
One small thing, so far all these colour photographs are "false colour". I mean shit, how hard is it to install a real colour camera onto the thing? Especially if you're a multi billion dollar budgeted organisation.
Like the one Kmarion listed a few posts up -- its an image formed from 450nm light (visible) and 750nm light (infrared), so they created a false color image from the data.
Object in Phoenix Lander gets scientists’ attention.Kmarion wrote:
The most interesting aspect of the new pictures was how close they came to expectations in the polar region:http://i32.tinypic.com/j7azqs.jpgNASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet’s surface on the first day of its three-month mission “to taste and sniff the northern polar site’s soil and ice,” the space agency said.
The first pictures, which the lander began taking shortly after touching down near Mars’ north pole — the end of a 422 million-mile trek — showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see.
“It’s surprisingly close to what we expected and that’s what surprises me most,” said Peter Smith, the mission’s principal investigator. “I expected a bigger surprise.”
This gives a good look at the polygonal patterns that scientists expected to see. I’m curious to see what that vertical white spot is in the lower part of the upper right quadrant just below the horizon, though. It looks like a singular rock formation. I’ll bet that gets the attention of the project managers as well.
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
On Monday, I pointed out a strange feature on the image of Mars’ horizon in the first pictures to get sent back to Earth from the Mars Phoenix Lander. Some dismissed it as an anomaly in the digital photography, but it has appeared on several pictures now. The unusual shape has some researchers very curious:Mystery image seen on Mars
May 28: One of the first images the Phoenix Mars Lander sent back to Earth shows a bright object in the distance. Denton Ebel deciphers the image with MSNBC's Tamron Hall.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp … 4#24856084
It’s almost certainly a rock, but Mars doesn’t have many with that luminosity and that shape. Everything else in the view of Phoenix looks dust-covered and relatively small. Its unusual appearance makes it stand out from everything else in the rather bleak landscape.
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God dammit
*wipes sweat off forehead*
I already said it's probably just a photographical anomaly
Seriously though, it really does look like some sort of digital mishap or something.
oh shi-, multiple pictures you say?
*wipes sweat off forehead*
I already said it's probably just a photographical anomaly
Seriously though, it really does look like some sort of digital mishap or something.
oh shi-, multiple pictures you say?
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mmmhmmmMek-Stizzle wrote:
God dammit
*wipes sweat off forehead*
I already said it's probably just a photographical anomaly
Seriously though, it really does look like some sort of digital mishap or something.
oh shi-, multiple pictures you say?
Some dismissed it as an anomaly in the digital photography, but it has appeared on several pictures now. The unusual shape has some researchers very curious:
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Yeah, probably is just a shinier-than-normal rock. And seeing as it's the permafrost region, probably icy or something (which makes it shiner/more reflective)? I dunno. Too bad the Rover can't move up to it.
Another thing, if it's analysing the soil around it. Won't it be contaminated by the rocket engines used to land the machine? I'm sure they've thought of that, but I hope it doesn't fuck up the results
Another thing, if it's analysing the soil around it. Won't it be contaminated by the rocket engines used to land the machine? I'm sure they've thought of that, but I hope it doesn't fuck up the results
This was a cool shot of it's decent captured by HiRISE.
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there are alot of interesting discoveries and inventions due to the space program. also, it breeds technological innovation in many areas outside of the direct application. one simple example we use every day is velcro. oh and tang - the flavored drink.
Game over http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081111/sc_ … _phoenix_5 .
Right on schedule.
Right on schedule.
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