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Post by Slinger on Nov 30, 2018 15:29:25 GMT
Composites are ok, CGI are a cheat! There are usually subtle, but detectable, clues.  |
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Post by rfan8312 on Nov 30, 2018 17:11:58 GMT
Kind of wild how much matter and dust can be see in space. Out there it may feel like a void but the bigger picture reveals something much different.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 30, 2018 22:30:19 GMT
Except that everything is so very far away!
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 1, 2018 6:28:25 GMT
Recent update from NASA - InSight has landed in a small impact crater depression and is at an angle of 4 degrees - which is fine as it is designed to operate with up to 15 degrees of tilt. And the robotic arm to be used for deploying the scientific sensors has been unlatched. Progress! Here's a (real  ) before and after picture ...  Although, strangely, it does seem to be snowing on Mars at the moment.   |
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 2, 2018 15:34:11 GMT
Simulation of InSight's solar cell array deployment  |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 2, 2018 21:52:48 GMT
Nice!
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 7, 2018 6:04:47 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 7, 2018 19:30:47 GMT
One of InSight's 7-foot (2.2 meter) wide solar panels was imaged by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera, which is fixed to the elbow of its robotic arm.  |
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 9, 2018 9:56:37 GMT
The sound of the wind on Mars, as heard by 2 sensors on the InSight lander
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 13, 2018 11:06:19 GMT
InSight's first full selfie.  The lander "used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images". |
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Post by Slinger on Dec 13, 2018 15:00:39 GMT
When I think back to the moon landing(s) the quality of today's images is nothing short of amazing.
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 20, 2018 7:11:40 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Dec 20, 2018 7:42:43 GMT
Awesome. Can't help wondering at the apparent random placement of the motifs on it.
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 20, 2018 7:53:18 GMT
That'll be the Ken Ishiwata Signature Edition seismometer then?!
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 11, 2019 13:03:44 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Jan 11, 2019 14:13:43 GMT
A bit off-topic, but I've just read that the Chinese Chang'e 4's lander and its rover, Yutu 2, have taken pictures of each other. There's got to be a "world's most expensive selfie" joke in there somewhere.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 11, 2019 16:00:05 GMT
The photos from the "dark side's surface" are a hell of an achievement.
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 11, 2019 16:53:40 GMT
The photos from the "dark side's surface" are a hell of an achievement. Tsk. It's the far side not the dark side. The moon presents the same hemisphere to the Earth all the time, hence the farside is never visible from here. But all parts of the moon get illuminated during the course of a lunar month. |
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Post by MartinT on Jan 11, 2019 16:59:38 GMT
That's why I put it in quotes  |
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 11, 2019 17:11:33 GMT
Pink Floyd have a lot to answer for.
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) before and after picture ...
