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The space pictures thread [Dial-up will die]
croxis
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Post your wonderful and happy space images here!
[IMG]http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/occult_mars.jpg[/IMG]
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Or, people could just go through the [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html]apod[/url] and [url=http://www.lpod.org/]lpod[/url] archives. ;)
I'm trying to spark some activity here and you have to ruin it!
*throws shoes and a spoon for good measure*
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[B]Gah, I wish NASA would stop artificially coloring images. Or at least I'd prefer specialized, low res, lightweight color cameras could be used alongside the main imaging stuff for the post processing. [/B][/QUOTE]
1. This isn't NASA. This is ESA.
2. They do have preprocessed ones and true-color ones available, in addition to the false-color ones I posted. Just browse the Mars Express website.
The first image is from here: [url]http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM412AATME_1.html[/url]
The second from here: [url]http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMG4O9ATME_0.html[/url]
3. Why haven't you posted any images?
So have fun. Go browse the Mars Express image gallery. 29 pages of excellent pictures there :)
[url]http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?mission=Mars+Express&keyword=+--%3E+Keyword&idf=+--%3E+ID&Ic=on&subm3=GO[/url]
[URL=http://www.the-planet-mars.com/mars-pictures.html]The Face on Mars[/URL]
I think it blinked... :D
A couple of pages that provide a good explanation of why true colour images from space are so hard:
[url]http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/mars_colors.html[/url]
[url]http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/green_mars.html[/url]
[B]The reason why they are false colour is because false colour provides much more information than real colour in most cases :) [/B][/QUOTE]
No, I understand why it's done, and they are good reasons. I guess I should've made it clear that my objection is not scientific but mildly silly and fundamentally emotional.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record[/url]
Another Reuters picture... amazing what they were able to do back then without Photoshop. ;)
I tells ya, the missions were real, the photos were fake.
[B][IMG]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/154341main_image_feature_631_ys_4.jpg[/IMG] [/B][/QUOTE]
Weird, I always thought there were depictions of an average male and female on that disk.
Yeah, not sure an uneducated alien (or human for that matter) can decipher the information either. :D
[B]You're thinking of the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque]Pioneer plaque[/url]. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yep, that's the one. Makes much more sense IMHO. :D
[B]Weird, I always thought there were depictions of an average male and female on that disk.
Yeah, not sure an uneducated alien (or human for that matter) can decipher the information either. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
The critical symbol is that of the hydrogen atoms, once you understand the importance of the time, I think then the rest could be translated by the correct level of intellegence.
Jake
[B]The critical symbol is that of the hydrogen atoms, once you understand the importance of the time, I think then the rest could be translated by the correct level of intellegence.
Jake [/B][/QUOTE]
That limits the chances for someone to understand the message even further, and if it's a greedy bastard, he, she or it might even decide to keep the disk or melt it for the metal. :D
[B]That limits the chances for someone to understand the message even further, and if it's a greedy bastard, he, she or it might even decide to keep the disk or melt it for the metal. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
Have you ever read battlefield earth? Thats how the evil baddies find out about earth..
[URL=http://www.ircbra.com/pic/moon.jpg]The Moon[/URL]
[URL=http://www.croxis.net/gallery/v/events/eclips/]http://www.croxis.net/gallery/v/events/eclips/[/URL]
[B]Have you ever read battlefield earth? Thats how the evil baddies find out about earth.. [/B][/QUOTE]
Never read the book, but I saw the movie.
I must have missed that detail. :D
[B]Here is my attempts at photographing a lunar eclipse
[URL=http://www.croxis.net/gallery/v/events/eclips/]http://www.croxis.net/gallery/v/events/eclips/[/URL] [/B][/QUOTE]
Um... I take your word for it... ;)
Nice try though.
[B]Never read the book, but I saw the movie.
I must have missed that detail. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
Thats cause the movie was total crap, the book however, is an entertaining story, you just have to ignore all of L Ron Hoover's thinly veiled scientology referances. it really is a pretty good story.
[B]That limits the chances for someone to understand the message even further, and if it's a greedy bastard, he, she or it might even decide to keep the disk or melt it for the metal. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
Actually, it's a fair bet that if another race finds it, they understand the principle of hydrogen and so will be able to decipher it. Provided they don't, as you say, melt it for scrap.
I don't think its that bad for a $150 camera!