Hi all,
I thought we should have a thread with all the major-publication publicized images and APOD's made by UMSF members. We really bring Space to the public and we should be proud of it!
I would like for each entry to contain:
1) a <100kb photo of the image itself + its name.
2) a link to the real-size image.
3) the UMSF user name(s) of the creators.
4) a link to the UMSF thread(s) where the image is presented/discussed.
I want to list the images chronologically, so if you can help me out with thread contributions in the above-described format, I'll insert those contributions to this first posting.
Thanks a lot, and here goes:
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“Spirit” cover on Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine: 14 November 2005. Article: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/11145p1.xml
Also appeared in New Scientist, http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/183/id/598/l/nl-be and http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051128.html.
Real-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0511/husbandhill_av3_spirit_big.jpg
Made by: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Doug Ellison (djellison), Bernhard Braun (nirgal) and Kenneth Kremer (mars loon)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1674
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Victoria’s Secrets Revealed in Color in Aviation Week: 2 Oct 2006
Also http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061002.html
Full-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/victoria1_opportunity_big.jpg
Made by: Bernhard Braun (nirgal), Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Ken Kremer (mars loon) and Doug Ellison (djellison)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3282
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Clouds and Sand on the Horizon of Mars, APOD 2006 October 17
Full-size image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/marshorizon_opportunity_big.jpg
Made by: M. Howard (mhoward), T. Öner, D. Bouic & M. Di Lorenzo (dilo)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3324
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APOD March 13 2007 "Attacking Mars": http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070313.html
Full-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/hillaryoutcrop_spirit_big.jpg
Made by: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo), Doug Ellison (djellison), Bernhard Braun (nirgal) and Kenneth Kremer (mars loon)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1674&st=140
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Opportunity descends into Victoria Crater, Aviation Week & Space Technology, July 2007, article hhttp://www.mcgraw-hillaerospacedefense.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw070907p2.xml&headline=Rover%20Ready%20for%20Dangerous%20Descent%20After%20Dust%20Storm.
Full-size image: http://www.zip.com.au/~gjn/MERSFX/Images/oppy_descendsvictoria.jpg
Made by: Astro0, Doug Ellison (djellison).
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4337&st=60&p=94014&#entry94014
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Roving again: Opportunity at Victoria Crater: 3 September 2007 in Aviation Week & Space Technology
Also in Spaceflight, January 2008: http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/183/id/1651/l/en-us
Full-size image:
Made by: Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo) and Ken Kremer (mars loon)
UMSF threads: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4542, http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4687&st=7
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A Path Into Victoria Crater, APOD, 2007 September 4
Made by: Eduardo Tesheiner (Tesheiner)
Full-size image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/victoriaroad2_opportunity_big.jpg
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4542&st=0&p=98037&#entry98037
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Opportunity at the Bright Band on Sol 1307: 8 October 2007 in Aviation Week & Space Technology
Full-size image:
Made by: Ken Kremer (mars loon) and Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4687
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Phoenix Mosaic: 9 Jun 2008 Cover for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine Article: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw060908p1.xml&headline=Phoenix%20Imagery%20Reveals%20North%20Polar%20Plain
Also appeared as http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080612.html.
Full-size image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/PhoenixMosaic_h_9Jun08.jpg
Made by: Ken Kremer (mars loon) and Marco Di Lorenzo (dilo)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5221&st=0
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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/armpanels_phoenix.jpg
Phoenix Digs for Clues on Mars, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080615.html
Full-size image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/armpanels_phoenix_big.jpg
Made by: James Canvin (jamescanvin)
UMSF thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5218&st=117
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Remember, this thread is a work in progress, help me out here!
There must also be Cassini images I don't know about... So, add your info to this thread!
Via this topic I would like to thank those UMSF members again who helped me illustrate my yearly MER-articles for the monthly Spaceflight magazine of the British Interplanetary Society... we even made some cover(s)
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1649/l/en-us
Hi! Here's the APOD one:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061017.html
I'll have to dig for the other.
Here's the Huygens one:
http://www.beugungsbild.de/huygens/huygens_mosaic_final.html
And in a moment I'll find a UMSF post with that link.
Here it is, copied from a 'search members posts' for RPascal:
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One of the most exciting questions for me is, if the radar swath data will result in a definite decision how the Huygens mosaic and Cassini ISS/VIMS correlate.
Some month ago I tried to find this correlation, with the result that I felt I had to introduce a relatively large calibration mismatch to find a good visual agreement of Huygens and ISS. But now it has come to my knowledge that Huygens radar, as well as radar tracking of Huygens from earth, seems to be in good agreement with the timer height calibration, so it looks as I have to give up this idea.
http://www.beugungsbild.de/huygens/ISS_huy...correlate3.html
Does anybody know what radar resolution is expected at the Huygens landing site?
Will ISS also obtain some high resolution images?
--René
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IIRC Jason cited this image in the official literature relating to the Huygens site location. Before this, and just after Huygens landed, an earlier version of the same Pascal mosaic featured in much of the press coverage.
ngunn, I added the Clouds and Sands image, thanks again!
Even though the Huygens is probably the one with the most scientific merit of them all, it doesn't quite fit in his thread. But wauw, it really is something! Didn't know an UMSf member made it.
Now, if somebody could explain me how I can add an image of an attachment from another posting...
When Opportunity was poised to enter Victoria Crater (just before the storm hit), I did this SFX image, seen in this http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4337&view=findpost&p=94014.
Sounds about right.
BTW, do my APOD images count? If so, and you can find which are mine, you get a cookie
I'd like thumbnails, but that wouldn't change anything, since I've hit the ceiling on the number (not size) of pictures.
I hope there is a way forward for this worthy enterprise. Glad you're on the case Doug.
I am delighted to be able to add one of my own images to this thread; namely my mosaic of the Apollo 15 landing site. Tony Reichhardt of Air & Space Magazine has written a piece detailing the recent photographic survey of Hadley Rille and its environs by the Japanese Kaguya probe:
http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Apollo_Revisited.html
Tony contacted me and kindly asked if he could use the mosaic in his article, which I readily agreed to in an instant:
http://www.airspacemag.com/photos?c=y&articleID=19979884&page=4
I may have a possible solution.
Outside the forum a few of us have been talking about an Outreach resource website.
There are lots of members here who give talks and presentations and produce resources that I'm sure they'd be happy sharing.
A page that includes a gallery of UMSF created images that have appeared in publication is certainly something that I think fits into the Outreach category.
Rather than glogging up UMSF, the moderators could pin a thread for Outreach Resources, where such things could be discussed and then materials hosted through the proposed Outreach website.
What do you think?
Astro0
That would be a great idea. I think this would be a good thing for the Planetary Society to host, but it might be hard for them to allow random ppl to edit. I would love to be able to download Doug's, Stu's, etc. presentations, along with some of the awesome movies created here.
The Outreach resource website Astro0 is referring to can easily accommodate the indexing of such images and it can be searched by keyword etc. Since it's a ground-up design, it can also be modified. Thus indexing the images is definitely possible, I am just not sure how many supersized images it can hold on the server and bandwidth issues. The webhost as such is quite good but some of the images can be rather large
Server and bandwidth issues can easily fixed by throwing money at them. (Ask, and ye shall get paypal'ed!) The bigger concern is maintenance and governance. That's why I suggested TPS.
Something along these lines? (Sorry Stu for pinching your artwork)
Search results (search for +phoenix):
Does having an image featured on http://www.spaceweather.comcount..?
They've very kindly used a couple of my 3D Phoenix images today...
Oh well, I'm proud of it, anyway...
Does this count?
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/11/1195385.aspx
Even more so when it's the front-page lead story on a "name" news site..!
Wow, well spotted, I knew it was on the sci/tech page but it wasn't on the front page of the whole site earlier.
That bumped the hit rate up a bit, over 1000 views on that image on my site in the last hour alone!
I suspect the UMSF hits are going to go up as well since they linked to Astro0's Cape Verde post directly.
Yep...98 people on right now (11 members), and it ain't even 0700 PDT on a Saturday morning yet. Emily's blog got a nice bump in that article, too!
I know it doesn't 100% count as 'published' but I'm chuffed that http://www.spaceweather.com has very kindly used another of my Phoenix anaglyphs today...
Congrats, Stu! Very nice write-up, too!
(Yes, gonna go get the glasses today, finally; nasty week at work, couldn't sneak out early enough to make the trip & still beat traffic home. It's Friday, things are slow...heh, heh, heh...)
Does having my http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/22/carnival-of-space-63/count..?
Naah, thought not... Chuffed by it anyway.
Stu, if it gets used beyond this forum then I think it counts!
Look how times we've all been on Emily's PS blog
Good one Stu!
UMSF contributor and space art genius, http://www.donaldedavis.com/ has a Phoenix panorama published in the September 2008 edition of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine. It serves as the background to the article.
WOW! GREAT work guys!!!
Today's APOD:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/PhoenixHolyCowMosaicAPOD.jpg
Thanks for sharing... I've entered some UMSF mosaic work for my 7th article on MER operations (to be published BIS Spaceflight magazine of January 2009)
Is a honor to see such image as Phoenix epitaph!
Thanks guys and thanks to Ken for perfect timing in submission.
Well, proud to announce the 3rd MER-related cover for BIS Spaceflight magazine:
Well, it's official now: http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1920/l/en-us
Thanks again for the help of Alan Martin, Eduardo Tesheiner, Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer for their assistance in getting high resolution versions of these images!!!
Wow! An issue with Phillip, Asif and Dwayne all together. This is going to be one of the best in months!
I finally got round to joining the BIS a couple of months ago for /exactly/ this sort of thing. Thanks (and congratulations) to everyone involved!
Does this count?
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/30/bouncing-boulders-on-mars
Very nice!
... and I'm gonna claim this, too...
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/18/poetry-in-space-final-pilgrims-to-the-hubble-space-telescope
Stu, you've made me into a poetry fan.
Beautiful! Stu, your poem made my eyes teary. I hope the astronauts will read it.
What an moving poem to go with the fantastic images. I am excited to see what visions come when Hubble reopens its eye.
Beautiful work, Stu...and for what an audience!
Very honoured to have my two Hubble poems featured on the Hubble Heritage website
http://heritage.stsci.edu/commonpages/art/literature/index.html
Which are the latest UMSF images released to the "general public" ?
I believe I saw UMSF images on SpaceflightNow.com
Well, it's official another UMSF.com image has made the cover of BIS' monthly Spaceflight magazine:
The January 2010 will be available at News & Magazines agents from 16th December...
It's a great article which mentions UMSF.com as suggestions poured in how to extract Spirit.
I've thanked everybody involved: Dan Maas, Doug Ellison, Ken Kremer, Marco di Lorenzo, Alan Martin, Eduardo Tesheiner, Glen Nagle...
Thanks again!
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/2101/l/en-us
A quick reminder that UMSF.com is a different website. This is unmannedspaceflight.com or UMSF, but not UMSF.com.
Quite. Call it UMSF if you like (I do). But do NOT call it UMSF dot com. That used to be a church website I believe, since mvoed to a .org, and the .com URL is now for sale for about $5000
Got me scared there... Re-checked the article and I did mention our favorite site as " unmannedspaceflight.com "
(a forum of online community of unmanned spaceflight enthusiasts)
Special thanks to Dan Maas, James Canvin, Glen Nagle and Stuart Atkinson...
cover credits:
Artist compilation © Glen Nagle
Mosaics © James Canvin, Stuart Atkinson
Raw data © NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M
Original Rover art © MAAS Digital LLC
Apparrently I got "BoingBoing" 'd... is that good?
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/09/the-chocolate-hills.html
So it would seem. Congratulations, Stu, VERY well-deserved!!!
Boing, Boing . . .Bon!
Didn't know where to put this but since this is a prize shared for, at least, 5 UMSFers...here it goes.
http://beyondthecradle.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/seti-superstar-award/
Perhaps this one would fit where my Iapetus map makes an appearance?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5964/432
I made this!
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/kepler/posts/post_1281039347499.html
Covers made by forum-members for the British Interplanetary Society's monthly Spaceflight magazine:
Hey all,
OK, I'm pretty stoked by this one. A classical violinist from Italy, Riccardo Minasi, saw my APOD of the Pantheon in Rome (see my sig). He liked it so much that he wanted it on the cover of his latest CD. Who was I to say no to that? His record label paid me a handsome sum for the photo, but more than the money It feels really nice to have made a CD cover. I am guessing there won't be many of those in the future, so it was now or never...
CD cover by a UMSF member, would that be a first?
http://www.grooves-inc.com/product_info.php/products_id/688434154/language/en
Awesome! Congratulations Soeren.
Congratulations, well done! That's a definite first!
Hey, that's really cool! Congratulations!!!
Very well deserved. Every time you post I'm newly thrilled by that image, made possible by an almost impossible building which in itself embodies an astronomical theme given a new astronomical twist by clever photography. I hope the musician understands all the layers. Is the music any good? Heck, I may buy it for the cover anyhow.
That indeed was an awesome image Soeren -- Congratulations!
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Congratulations on the work and the CD cover
ESA published Emily's collage of asteroids and comet nuclei on its web page "Call for media: reacting to the threat of asteroid impacts."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM4RWPOHEG_index_1.html
Congrats to Emily.
I see Ted Stryk's name through the credits as well.
Thanks for all your comments guys, warms the heart!
Wether you fancy Carl Sagan or not here's something where several UMSFers are involved:
http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/
Being behind the curtains on this I am really proud to see how people put their hearts into it...
Stu, Nick, Lyford...thank you for everything!
AHH! What a glorious day for UMSFers!!! Looks like we've take the bridge of the USS Kepler Starship!
Lyford at the keyboards, NPrev and Stu shooting word artillery and I well...I'm feeling like tattoo at fantasy island!
http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/
Wow! Nick and Stu... such marvelous writing. And Ustrax (or should I say, Tatoo) thanks for telling me about "zee plane, zee plane"!
I never would have seen it if you hadn't pointed it out to me.
Thanks, man! (insert blush emoticon here.) All kudos to Rui & the Kepler project for providing the opportunity; it's a humbling thing, was very honored.
But I'm the pollywog among some big frogs indeed in this pond. Lyford's score is not only professional in its quality, but it hits all the right notes in your heart...haunting, beautiful.
Stu's story is...God, please, just read it, everybody. I still see the images he wove, and won't ever forget them.
Stu........ !
Exactly.
Thanks, guys. I am quite pleased with how that story turned out.
And Nick, don't you dare put yourself down like that. Your essay is extremely personal and deep, deep from the heart, which makes it a fine piece of writing.
As for Lyford's music, well, it's now on my phone and I'm looking forward to listening to it next time I go up to the castle to stargaze.
A great story, Stu! I guessed the twist kinda quickly, but even so!
Just a minor correction though: 51 Pegasi b (the first found orbiting a normal star) was discovered in 1995, a year before his death, so I'm sure Carl knew about extrasolar planets.
But that's a tiny nitpick!
Yeah, bit of a clue the story being part of celebrations of Carl Sagan's life, hard to get around that!
Good point on the 51 Peg date, that totally slipped by me. Put it down to "artistic licence"
As one who used to do a pretty good Sagan impression, my only concern is that in your story he didn't say "billions."
Oh, it was hard stopping myself, trust me!
The hell of it is that no matter how many times he said "billions" he was still generally understating most things astronomical...
Boy, there was sure no one like him before or since, and we were so extremely lucky to have him. Peace, Carl.
What do you guys think of:
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/videos.html
?
It's been posted before... to critical acclaim I might add...
A clip from Stephen V2's movie is today's (March 15, 2011) APOD. It features images done by several UMSF members:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html
Think I just saw a preview of next year's must-see IMAX!
Congratulations to Bjorn on having his incredible GRS image used for today's Astronomy Picture Of the Day! :-)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110502.html
Congratulations to ugordan for having his Mercury mosaic featured on Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy" blog today! Well deserved!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/13/jaw-dropping-mosaic-of-mercurys-battered-beautiful-face/
*picks jaw back up* wow!
Extremely well-deserved, Gordan. That image is my work computer desktop so I can explore it during slow moments!
Massive congratulations to Bjorn for getting his Voyager mosaic as a Planetary Photojournal image!!!
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14412
That Mercury composite is indeed amazing!
Congratulations to ugordan for having his absolutely gorgeous Enceladus pic featured on APOD today...!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod
Thanks, Stu. If you like that one, you'll love http://www.flickr.com/photos/10795027@N08/5416863210 from the same encounter as well. Shows the entire south polar region whereas in my single frame composite it was out of the frame...
Well-deserved congrats, and a Q: in these pics, it looks like some of those ridges in the center of the image are raised, but that couldn't be true, could it? I have this problem all the time looking at images of craters, wonder if there's a 'smarter' way to perceive them?
However those Saturn-lit features in the center of the disk *are* raised- they really are ridges. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010DPS....42.1602P have suggested that they result from thrust faulting.
John
Congratulations to Ian for his glorious animation of Lutetia, which is today's http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120424.html
(but for unknown reason is my name under it, I suppose, that this error is based on changing names mentioned in Emily's http://planetary.org/blog/article/00003448/).
Simply magnificent - congrats to Ian (and machi!) who are both unfailingly reliable in terms of turning raw data into fantastic images/movies for our delectation within 48 hours of any significant encounter - thanks both!
A number of news sites picked up my version of the first MSL horizon navcams yesterday. That I know of:
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/13187816-tour-the-martian-mojave-in-3-d?chromedomain=cosmiclog
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/08/3d-navcam-curiosity.html (picture of the day)
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2012/08/08/01008-20120808DIMFIG00323-les-premiers-instants-martiens-de-curiosity.php (4th image in the album) (was on front page of website for a while)
Wow! Congratulations.
Great stuff, James!!! Congrats!!!
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13321407-rover-reveals-more-of-martian-peak featuring EdTruthan, me and an UMSF shout out in general, currently has a prominant link on the MSNBC homepage. Hits on my site have gone through the roof.
Well done again, James! Heck, you might be heading for a permanent gig over there!
Amazing, James.
Looking to educational pages in the MSL site, I just discovered they used our "Clouds and Sand on the Horizon of Mars" mosaic (APOD 2006 October 17) as backgroung image of "Imagine Mars" gallery: http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov/
Happy to see it but I cannot see any credit!
PS: http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/21/13399924-curiosity-points-to-mars-destination?lite featuring Ken/mine panoramas from NavCam.
Blimey, if I'd known my image was going up on http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121105.html today I would have cleaned up the colour bleed around the limb!
Congratulations, great pic.
Their source often seems to be Emily's blog so what gets posted there usually ends up being what's reposted at APOD.
Oh, I'm definitely not complaining!
Just reminded me of the little flaws in the image my eyes are always drawn to. We could probably tweak stuff without end but have to draw the line at some point.
Great mosaic - the Cassini PDS stuff is a treasure trove for anyone who likes to process raw data into beautiful images/mosaics/color composites etc.
A rather gorgeous new calendar features a rather gorgeous image of Europa created by our very own Ted Stryk... and it was produced in cooperation with The Planetary Society too...
Review and ordering details here...
http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/calendar-review-the-year-in-space-2013
Maybe I can update this thread ^^
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140218.html
Ted Stryk is credited for a two-page Europa mosaic in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic.
It wasn't news to me...I knew they were going to use it, but not when or how.
Ted's image today at APOD is nice. Apparently we are having a km / mi mixup again, though. Also, as usual, I am having a very hard time finding the original posting of the image.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140919.html
I had nothing to do with the sizing of these four images, but yes, it is clearly way off.
I probably could have gathered that if I had put a little more thought into the whole thing. Fact checking is in short supply all around...
Our much missed mars_stu (Stuart Atkinson) hits APOD with his processing of the http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141223.html image.
Damia is on http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html today. Félicitations!
Oh God! I hate listening to my own voice, let alone watching myself appear on the BBC's flagship tech programme!
Yet here it is, ladies and gents: my appearance on Saturday's edition of 'Click', in which I discuss stumbling across new rings of Saturn, as well as providing a little insight into how I transform raw images of both Saturn and Pluto into (hopefully) eye-catching color composites. Fast forward to 9:12 for the segment in question ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b064cxb8/click-25072015
For US viewers, check out the BBC WORLD NEWS schedule:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldnews/programmes/schedules/northamerica
And yes: I did manage to squeeze in a reference to UMSF that *DID* make the cut
Nice work Ian! I take it my cheque is in the post.
Two great UMSF references with it being mentioned in the subsequent astronomy segment as well.
Aw, gee -- and I was just flipping through the on-screen program guide on my cable TV service looking for some actual news (it's getting to be a lost cause watching the American cable news networks if you want to see actual news) and I am afraid to say I passed by the BBC World News channel because it wasn't the news segment, it was the Click show.
I'll have to see if they're re-running it later. I rarely see anything about my real life (things like this forum) spilling out into the world everyone else sees. It's reassuring to see it happen. Thanks, Ian!
-the other Doug
Congrats Ian!
Here's a short clip that can be accessed outside the UK:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33678001
Got a quick glimpse of our forum handles too!
I was watching the BBC short segment and I grabbed my mouse... except it was my cell phone, and it did not respond like my mouse should have ... this is the second time this has happened in few months ... does anybody else think their cell phone should behave like a mouse? or is this a future App waiting to be invented?
I wouldn't know; I'm still on a flip phone. It'll probably be pried from my cold dead hands too...
Congratulations to Thomas Appéré, Jan van Driel, Ian Regan, and Emily Lakdawalla for images published in the December Solstice issue (Volume 35, Number 4) of The Planetary Report. Nice images! (I hope I didn't miss any other UMSF folk in that issue - lots of images.)
I think belated acknowledgement and congratulations are due for Bjorn's magnificent achievement of making it to the front cover of Sky & Telescope (or at least his Voyager GRS composite did, anyway).
The cover of the March 2016 issue:
...I did not know. Spectacular!!! Congratulations, Bjorn!
Superb, Bjorn! Of course, your work is always superb, but now it's superb in a new venue.
That is awesome! Plus it's fantastic to see such a great glossy from an image that's older than I am by a few years.
Absolutely fantastic front cover, the personal sense of gratification must be immense, yet I don't recall any mention of the upcoming front cover image ever being mentioned in the 'Coming Soon' thread.
A talented yet, modest man it would seem.
Congratulations to Mattias Malmer for the use of his shape model of comet 67P featured in today's http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161003.html interactive visualization from ESA.
Some familiar names in this new press release for a inspiration campaign: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2995/a-valentine-from-cassini-with-love/
Three JunoCam PJ06 image/video products, which have been selected as APODs within a little more than a week, thanks to Seán:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170529.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170603.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170607.html
Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter--Movie by Gerald Eichstädt featured on Day in Review. Congratulations Gerald!!!
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ride-with-juno-as-it-flies-past-the-solar-systems-biggest-moon-and-jupiter?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=daily20210714-1
Wonderful. Swear Jar.
The Juno images are such rich sources of pareidolia that it's rarely worthwhile to mention specific instances.
But did anyone else see a troop of horses, one with a rider? And a seated goblin worthy of Maurice Sendak?
Question: Are those flashes lighting?
My question is, are the lightning flashes based on data from JunoCAM, or are they an artistic flourish?
While I’m no longer keeping up with every development, I understand that the Juno mission has observed dark-side lighting with its Stellar Reference Unit, but I believe that the extent to which lightning is visible in Junocam images has been the subject of lively discussion on UMSF.
In the JPL writeup it states "Using information that Juno has learned from studying Jupiter’s atmosphere, the animation team simulated lightning one might see as we pass over Jupiter’s giant thunderstorms". So artistic flourish based some observational data.
Thanks Floyd, and my apologies to the forum for not reading all the way to the end of the description.
No problem Tom, I usually skip the writeup and go strait to the images or figures myself.
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