MARS, BITCH.

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:34 AM, lumpenprol said:

<3

i explored uranus lol

mars panorama

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

looks like a whole lotta nothin

  On 8/6/2012 at 8:05 PM, Eggylips said:

200,000 people watched the nasa stream live

Something not quite right there mate because 700,000 people watched it live on the XBOX live player alone. Myself and 80 of my friends list included.

With regards to the photo colour queries: It's not in colour, due to it requiring less bandwidth and them needing to get images as soon as they could before the sunset. They tend to do one channel at a time as its quicker. they are also limtied by what they can do after touchdown, as the first 24 hours they are operating off a program, doing instrumentation testing, essentially making sure all the bits are in one piece. They can only do one thing at a time, and it takes 14minutes to do that. The way they actually do alot of the colour, is by having a calibration globe type thing. Somewhere within view of the camera, is a pallette of colours, they can then match those colours with whatever else is in the scene shade wise. From what I remember from things like Pathfinder and Phoenix.

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:37 PM, abusivegeorge said:

With regards to the photo colour queries: It's not in colour, due to it requiring less bandwidth and them needing to get images as soon as they could before the sunset.

not quite. the original images were in b/w because they were taken using the hazard avoidance cameras, which are low-resolution and b/w, but could be used immediately upon landing. the other cameras, which needed to be deployed before use, are all 1600x1200 true colour for still images, or 1280x720 true colour for 10fps video.

Terraformed Mars rendering:

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said.

What? I need more context

  On 8/9/2012 at 7:30 PM, compson said:

What? I need more context

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvwxvCOSH4

taken from mast camera

IDM

yeah! Those mountains are badass!

  On 8/9/2012 at 6:46 PM, compson said:

!Hah! That's fucking awesome.

I dunno why I quoted that, long image.

  On 8/10/2012 at 1:21 AM, zazen said:

 

IDM

fucking amazing

  On 8/10/2012 at 2:38 AM, kaini said:

  On 8/10/2012 at 1:21 AM, zazen said:

 

IDM

fucking amazing AMAZON

hot damn thats one cool photo

UHh, what's so cool about that black and white poorly combined photo besides the pointy mountains?

I would say this deserves that kinda foamy mouth reaction though.

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:02 PM, jules said:

mars panorama

 

 

http://www.panoramas...eley-haven.html

The combination of that sweet looking robot on that barren surface of mars is tremendous! whats not cool about that? the mountains are just the icing on the cake.

  On 8/10/2012 at 4:20 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:02 PM, jules said:

mars panorama

 

 

http://www.panoramas...eley-haven.html

that's an earlier rover... prepare to drool

now. we're going to get EVEN BETTER IMAGES THAN THIS.

The bad cropping combination of a bunch of images (for why is it like that with a shot that doesn't have much of a wide perspective at all?) destroys the cool factor to me more so than it being in low detail black and white

  On 8/10/2012 at 4:29 AM, kaini said:

  On 8/10/2012 at 4:20 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:02 PM, jules said:

mars panorama

http://www.panoramas...eley-haven.html

 

that's an earlier rover... prepare to drool

Yeah, I knew it was having seen it a while back, just saying I want to see shots like that from Curiosity. When this shit gets real I'ma be gettin all foamy mouthed fo sho

the cropping makes it even more idm imo

it's the photo equivalent of the little gap in teartear

  On 8/10/2012 at 4:31 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

The bad cropping combination of a bunch of images (for why is it like that with a shot that doesn't have much of a wide perspective at all?) destroys the cool factor to me more so than it being in low detail black and white

 

  On 8/10/2012 at 4:29 AM, kaini said:

  On 8/10/2012 at 4:20 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:02 PM, jules said:

mars panorama

http://www.panoramas...eley-haven.html

 

that's an earlier rover... prepare to drool

Yeah, I knew it was having seen it a while back, just saying I want to see shots like that from Curiosity. When this shit gets real I'ma be gettin all foamy mouthed fo sho

you will. i will. like i said on facebook earlier when curiosity actually gets rolling imma have a fuckin proper sciencegasm.