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Jul 29 2008, 04:37 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Oh yes, I'm certainly aware. ESA's public relations has always been a source of agitation for me. You'll find lots of company here, then... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 29 2008, 01:02 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Just heard back from the ESA Media office...
"We are still waiting for the material, but expecting to receive the first images by the end of the day or tomorrow. We will publish them on the web (link below) as soon as possible (tomorrow or Thursday the latest). http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html" -------------------- |
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Jul 29 2008, 07:55 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 27-June 08 From: Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. Member No.: 4244 |
unnecessary quoting removed
Thanks Stu, I was beginning to wonder also. Does anyone know what the resolution of the images at closest approach will be, 1 metre per pixel, better, worse? Hopefully we'll get some more insight as to where Phobos camefrom. Captured type D asteroid? Formed around Mars? Formed from impact ejecta from Mars? My bet is still option 1, despite the difficulties with explaining orbital mechanics, but I still think, Phobos is as alien to Mars as the spacecraft we have sent. It will be interesting to compare the new Phobos imagery with the NEAR / Shoemaker spacecraft imagery of similar resolution of asteroid 433 Eros. Perhaps Mars Express could do similar with Deimos? Comparisons with the MARSIS & multispectral imagers / spectrometers of the two would be most fascinating. Andrew Brown. -------------------- "I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.
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Jul 29 2008, 09:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Vriezenveen, Netherlands Member No.: 1067 |
Using spice kernels (for the spacecraft, Mars and Phobos) I tried to simulate the Mars Express Phobos flybies.
Underneath the images of how Phobos would approximately look like at closest approach. The field of view in these images is 30 degrees (I don't know what field of view Mars Express has). 17 july 2008 (273 km) 23 july 2008 (97 km) 28 july 2008 (361) I wonder how accurate Celestia will be |
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Jul 29 2008, 11:49 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
width of the HRSC swath is about 12 degrees - covering 5000ish pixels.
Doug |
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Jul 30 2008, 11:57 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 8-November 07 From: Berlin, Germany Member No.: 3957 |
A photo of Phobos quoted to have been made during the 93 km flyby last week was published
in the Nature & Science section of todays Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a major German newspaper. G. Paul, who is frequently writing about space topics there, gave some general information about the moon and a hint, that the photos cover the proposed Phobos-Grunt landing site. This might be an indication that some release of data is near. Best, Oliver |
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Jul 30 2008, 12:06 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
If I read that correctly, the headline says "Over Mars: A Cosmic Potato Named Phobos"? Hilarious!!!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 30 2008, 12:41 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 6-September 05 From: Paderborn, Germany Member No.: 484 |
Yes, the translation of the title is correct .
-------------------- --- Under Construction ---
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Jul 30 2008, 03:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
So can we nickname Phobos-Grunt "SPUDnik?" *ducks*
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jul 30 2008, 03:38 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 27-June 08 From: Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. Member No.: 4244 |
-------------------- "I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.
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Jul 30 2008, 04:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Jul 30 2008, 04:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
The image they provided there looks pretty distorted (The 3.74 Mb image). Do they intend to clean that up? -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Jul 30 2008, 04:45 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I don't know about distortion -- Phobos looks pretty distorted in general; I can tell you from experience that it can be really hard to tell whether you have an oblique perspective or if an image has been unequally stretched. But I have a different question. There are two image releases that lack annotations. I thought that maybe they were the two views that had been combined to create the stereo image. But it appears that they are in fact the same image, stretched differently, and it seems that there was a gap in the image, some kind of data dropout, that was handled differently between the two images. In one the gap was closed, making an obvious seam; in the other, the gap was filled by duplicating pixels. I think that's what's going on anyway -- do others agree? The two pictures are
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsex...os-Flyby_H1.jpg and http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsex...os-Flyby_H1.jpg Odd. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 30 2008, 04:53 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
The opposite of a usual activity: take apart an anaglyph to get its separate frames and voila, two more HRSC images of Phobos. Here's the red channel:
And the blue channel: Enjoy! --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 30 2008, 05:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
Interesting, the relatively small number of the tiniest craters. The dust layer must be mighty thick.
Really cool anaglyph on the home page - it really leaps off the screen at you! -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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