Stu
Dec 20 2006, 05:14 PM
Anyone else feel like waiting for each new batch of images is like waiting to pull a Christmas cracker? Just don't know what treats are going to be inside! (unless you're tuvas who gets a sneak peek...!
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AlexBlackwell
Dec 20 2006, 05:22 PM
Stu
Dec 20 2006, 05:31 PM
QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 20 2006, 05:22 PM)
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Must've gone up as I typed my note...
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(just looked: how the <chink chink chink> am I going to get through THAT lot before going out in half an hour?!?!?!?!)
tuvas
Dec 20 2006, 05:49 PM
I know what they were, because I'm the one who looked at them and made sure they were ready to go. FYI, I think you'll see a similar number of pictures for the next few weeks, we're starting to dump all of the releasable images from Cycle 1, and as there isn't as many people around for the holidays, we decided to take this time to release images without captions, so... Call it a ChristmaHanaQuanza (In the words of our webmaster) give to everyone out there, more images than normal.
ElkGroveDan
Dec 20 2006, 05:51 PM
QUOTE (tuvas @ Dec 20 2006, 09:49 AM)
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Call it a ChristmaHanaQuanza (In the words of our webmaster) give to everyone out there, more images than normal.
Having trouble unwrapping your Christmas gift. Servers on overload?
volcanopele
Dec 20 2006, 05:51 PM
QUOTE (tuvas @ Dec 20 2006, 10:49 AM)
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I know what they were, because I'm the one who looked at them and made sure they were ready to go. FYI, I think you'll see a similar number of pictures for the next few weeks, we're starting to dump all of the releasable images from Cycle 1, and as there isn't as many people around for the holidays, we decided to take this time to release images without captions, so... Call it a ChristmaHanaQuanza (In the words of our webmaster) give to everyone out there, more images than normal.
I thought it was Christmakwanzahanadan.
tuvas
Dec 20 2006, 06:07 PM
QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 20 2006, 10:51 AM)
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I thought it was Christmakwanzahanadan.
Not in the words of our webmaster, so...
I don't notice anything about the web servers, but I have local access, so... All I can do is suggest patience...
AlexBlackwell
Dec 20 2006, 07:05 PM
I've only done a cursory scan through this latest release, but I have to say that the lower part of
PSP_001388_1565 ("Delta in Crater South of Parana Basin") is a good example of how HiRISE can document the distribution of small impact craters.
And I liked
PSP_001368_1400 ("Gully Apron In Crater"), too
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EDIT: With respect to PSP_001388_1565, I should have said "the entire image is a good example..."
djellison
Dec 20 2006, 07:17 PM
QUOTE (tuvas @ Dec 20 2006, 05:49 PM)
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ChristmaHanaQuanza
Technical phrase is a whole HiBunch of pictures.
Doug
tuvas
Dec 20 2006, 07:24 PM
I think that might be carrying the HiWords to a bit of an excess...
djellison
Dec 20 2006, 07:29 PM
Oh - it's far far too late to say that
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Doug
tuvas
Dec 20 2006, 07:56 PM
Just thought I would quote the HiBlog about the image release:
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Further, many of these are samples of the Northern Plains (reconnaissance for the Phoenix Mars Lander) which are very flat and featureless. To continue the X-mas gift metaphor, they are the HiRISE equivalent of tube socks.
um3k
Dec 20 2006, 08:12 PM
QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 20 2006, 02:29 PM)
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Oh - it's far far too late to say that
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Doug
HiWell HiStated, HiMate!
Hi
Nix
Dec 20 2006, 09:13 PM
http://www.awalkonmars.com/PSP_001330_1395..._crop100per.jpgHere's a 100% hicrop from the gullies images -first one in the row of release #5
Nico
djellison
Dec 20 2006, 10:13 PM
I've just orded a switch of ISP from Plusnet to a different company... do you think 300-off-peak-Gig will be enough
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Doug
lyford
Dec 20 2006, 10:51 PM
QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 20 2006, 11:05 AM)
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I've only done a cursory scan through this latest release, but I have to say that the lower part of
PSP_001388_1565 ("Delta in Crater South of Parana Basin") is a good example of how HiRISE can document the distribution of small impact craters.
I am impressed at the clarity of even the preview "browse" resolution! And in this image is another good example, though I must say I don't understand how someone as bright as Sir Arthur C. ever thought dunes in channels were "glass tubes/worms."
Nix
Dec 20 2006, 10:53 PM
QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 20 2006, 11:13 PM)
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I've just orded a switch of ISP from Plusnet to a different company... do you think 300-off-peak-Gig will be enough
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Doug
What ISP then. HiGig?
Nico
djellison
Dec 20 2006, 10:59 PM
Oh, a little company in the UK - heard lots of impressive things about them - Vivaciti...a business bundle with good upload and low contention
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- But for the purposes of this thread - yes - they are HiSP
Doug
Bjorn Jonsson
Dec 20 2006, 11:02 PM
Stu
Dec 20 2006, 11:14 PM
QUOTE (Nix @ Dec 20 2006, 09:13 PM)
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Here's a 100% hicrop from the gullies images -first one in the row of release #5
Nico
Thanks for that Nico; I was starting to worry that all I'd got in my cracker was a nasty, nostril-pinching plastic moustache and one of those red plastic film "truth fishes" that curl up in your hand...
PDP8E
Dec 20 2006, 11:20 PM
I have a broadband Cable modem with 10Mbits/sec download and 200Kbits/sec upload
a 1 GByte file loads between 300KBytes/sec and 800KBytes/sec depending on 'mysterious internet loads'
That means I get a 1GByte file down in 15 to 30 minutes (the connection is very bursty - it can zoom up to 1.1MBytes/sec download for a few secs to 20 secs)
The cable is reliable (Comcast); one outage that I recall of less than 2 hours in the last 4 yrs (if its out while I am at work or sleeping -- does it count?)
dvandorn
Dec 20 2006, 11:32 PM
wowsh!!!!!!!!!! im so glad to be alive
CosmicRocker
Dec 21 2006, 07:07 AM
Hi, Ya'all, as they say around here.
Ditto, dvandorn. I finally managed to get a copy of the 1.2 gig Gusev image, and now this. Does anyone have some crops to share with those of us damned to dialup?
ngunn
Dec 21 2006, 09:44 AM
As another soul stuck at the wrong end of the telescope can I add a cropped detail request for that conspicuous little white patch on 001380_2520? (with scale bar if possible)
Nix
Dec 21 2006, 10:12 AM
You mean this patch of 'snow'?
Nico
edit; now with 25 meters scalebar
ngunn
Dec 21 2006, 10:21 AM
That's the one, thanks Nico. I can see now that it lies in a shallow basin. It does look very pristine, doesn't it? Probably nothing unusual, but striking in it's lonely isolation.
Nix
Dec 21 2006, 10:26 AM
You're welcome ngunn, I've replaced it for a version with scalebar included. I immediately noticed the 'lonely' patch too, it's one of the first images from that batch I took in.
Nico
tuvas
Dec 21 2006, 04:58 PM
QUOTE (Nix @ Dec 21 2006, 03:12 AM)
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You mean this patch of 'snow'?
Nico
edit; now with 25 meters scalebar
I've seen stuff like that in a few of the images, they are quite interesting, to say the least...
kenny
Dec 21 2006, 05:27 PM
The "snow patch" is also surrounded by a greater density of boulders than seems to be the norm here. I was wondering if they are ejecta from a little crater which the snow patch occupies, a crater which has been deformed by the polygon-forming processes which dominate this landscpe
kenny
AlexBlackwell
Dec 21 2006, 05:59 PM
QUOTE (Nix @ Dec 21 2006, 12:12 AM)
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You mean this patch of 'snow'?
Thanks, Nico, and I'm glad you put "snow" in quotation marks.
At first glance, the light-toned material appears to be a substrate underlying the region, exposed by whatever process(es) formed that particular depression.
tty
Dec 21 2006, 08:57 PM
It looks like collapse feature of some kind. Perhaps the cryokarst version of a doline?
tty
SteveM
Dec 21 2006, 10:38 PM
QUOTE (Nix @ Dec 21 2006, 05:12 AM)
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You mean this patch of 'snow'?
Nico
Thanks for the image, I'm another one who hasn't invested in a computer that will handle the JPEG2000 images and wouldn't be able to see anything in full detail if you and others weren't kind enough to send selected crops.
When I looked at the center of the white area in Photoshop, I found that it was totally saturated -- every pixel was totally white. Was there any detail visible using the wider dynamic range of the JPEG2000?
Thanks again, Steve
tuvas
Dec 21 2006, 10:41 PM
Any computer can handle JPEG 2000 images, the trick is to find a program that will allow it with any computer... Once we have HiView it'll be even better, so...
Sunspot
Dec 21 2006, 11:28 PM
If you're using Windows just download Irfanview:
http://www.irfanview.com/
ngunn
Dec 22 2006, 11:33 AM
I don't own a computer. I use our college system, which I share with several hundred staff and several thousand students. I am therefore not at liberty to download software when I choose. Nor can I download very large images or movies, though the systems people will do it for me if I make a special request as they have done for some MER panoramas, Mars and Titan movies and the Hayden Planetarium's excellent Orion Nebula in 3D movie. Websites that take more than a few seconds to open come up with 'access denied' and this includes NASA most of the time. I don't want to push my luck by asking for access to all the HiRISE images just now, so thank you once again Nix and the others who have posted cropped details (including the HiRISE team themselves for posting that detail of the natural arch). I just hope the system under development will work like the earlier 'zoomify' which was perfect for me.
About that patch of 'snow' - I wonder if there's enough to make a snowman? (Lightcolouredsubstrateman?)
ustrax
Dec 22 2006, 11:43 AM
QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 21 2006, 05:59 PM)
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At first glance, the light-toned material appears to be a substrate underlying the region, exposed by whatever process(es) formed that particular depression.
A depression?
It looks like an elevation to me...
ngunn
Dec 22 2006, 12:01 PM
QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 22 2006, 11:43 AM)
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Nice perspective - just needs a tiny snowman waving to camera
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- but it still looks like the white stuff is in a hollow (unless I'm seeing the whole thing backwards and those 'boulders' are actually small pits . . . )
Sunspot
Dec 22 2006, 12:02 PM
It's Frost.
PDP8E
Dec 22 2006, 06:23 PM
QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 22 2006, 07:02 AM)
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It's Frost.
its something! Sun is at the left, looks like a depression
<sharpened, adjusted, tweaked, fooled around with...oh and an attempt at colorization>
kenny
Dec 22 2006, 11:09 PM
Nice attempt, but the colorization has the curious effect of making the boulders so much harder to see than in the monochrome verison...
Gonzz
Dec 23 2006, 05:22 AM
It's another beacon
Gsnorgathon
Dec 23 2006, 05:49 AM
I'm reminded of images of pit craters on Ganymede. Though my default assumption is frost, I can't help but wonder about Alex's suggestion of a substrate. Could there be a process that would leech volatiles from a shallow substrate? Maybe acting as a cold sink and encouraging frost deposition?
Tman
Dec 23 2006, 11:47 AM
QUOTE (Gonzz @ Dec 23 2006, 06:22 AM)
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It's another beacon
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No no, since it seems to be overexposed, it could be another bottomless (ice) hole like then Ultreya which was in contrast too dark for a final definition - so to speak it's (snow) white-little-Ultreya...
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