Archives for July 2006
RE: Another Mars panorama on the way?
Published on 30 Jul 2006 at 9:26 am.
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According to this Opportunity rover update posted yesterday, the vehicle has once again experienced a “cleaning event” with regards to it’s solar panels/power system. Also notice that the rover activities for Sol 891 include a panoramic camera mosaic (that answers that question). The rover is currently parked about 25 meters from Beagle Crater.
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Another Mars panorama on the way?
Published on 28 Jul 2006 at 10:13 pm.
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I was browsing the latest posted raw images from the Mars rover Opportunity and I couldn’t help but notice a sequence of Panoramic Camera images overlapped at the edges. I stitched together 5 of of these images (Left Panoramic Camera : Filter 2 (753nm near-infrared) : Non-linearized : Full frame EDR acquired on Sol [...]
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NASA posts Solid Rocket Booster Video
Published on 10 Jul 2006 at 3:54 am.
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On Sunday NASA (quietly?) posted video of the launch of STS-121 Discovery taken from cameras mounted on the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs). These videos are in Windows Media Player 9 format. For those of you on Macs (like me) I recommend the Flip4Mac WMV plugin for Quicktime — it’s free and works well.
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