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Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by nollidge » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 7:29 PM UTC

grecy wrote: post #8

nollidge wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images. Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!

Do you have a link to the tldr of the conference about the debris? I'm curious if they think it's a problem.. ?

One of the journos asked about that, and it sounds like probably not. I know @elakdawalla was live-tweeting it, so she might mention it.

Anyway the gist was that they had not predicted that debris would get kicked up like that (or at least not this much, I think), but it doesn't sound like it'll cause problems. My take is that even if they didn't expect to kick things up during landing, she's gotta be tough enough to withstand the winds as well as a bit of rough-and-tumble while roving around.

Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by nkoren » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 7:40 PM UTC

randomdrake wrote: post #3

Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the real sites, from NASA[1]? The sources are clearly provided, but the blog doesn't bother to link to the actual, full-resolution picture page[2], which provides full-resolution JPG or TIFF and additional information, in any way. I'm as interested in the mission…

Actually, in this case I'm glad they didn't. Photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov has gone, so I didn't have any way to see this image until finding this post on HN.

Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by randomdrake » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 7:41 PM UTC

itsclearleon wrote: post #9

randomdrake wrote: post #3

Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the real sites, from NASA[1]? The sources are clearly provided, but the blog doesn't bother to link to the actual, full-resolution picture page[2], which provides full-resolution JPG or TIFF and additional information, in any way. I'm as interested in the mission…

They link to the photo journal at the bottom of the post as well as some other resources.

They link to the JPL multimedia image page. They do not link to the Planetary Photojournal page, where, one can find additional information and the various full-resolution options.

Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by kibwen » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 8:04 PM UTC

"The images in this panorama were brightened in the processing. Mars only receives half the sunlight Earth does and this image was taken in the late Martian afternoon."

This is a fascinating aspect of Mars that I'd never considered. Half the sunlight, but much less atmosphere... I wonder how much dimmer it is overall.

Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 8:09 PM UTC

It's surprising how close old sci-fi moves got just by filming in southern california.

Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by sukuriant » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

Mars receives half the light that the Earth does?! That is a ton of light!

For you photographers out there, just think: Mars's "Sunny 16" is a "Sunny 11". That's not that much darker!

I sincerely thought that Mars would be pretty dark out there since it's further from the sun. I was clearly wrong.

Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

nkoren wrote: post #12

randomdrake wrote: post #3

Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the real sites, from NASA[1]? The sources are clearly provided, but the blog doesn't bother to link to the actual, full-resolution picture page[2], which provides full-resolution JPG or TIFF and additional information, in any way. I'm as interested in the mission…

Actually, in this case I'm glad they didn't. Photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov has gone, so I didn't have any way to see this image until finding this post on HN.

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