Starship Asterisk*

Waiting for images and footages of UARS satellite reentry. I hope to see something like this for Hayabusa!

rstevenson wrote:It's common practice to repost previous APODs on the weekend. Nothing weirrrrrrd about it. The APOD masters have lives; they have time off; they are volunteers. Deal with your disappointment.

Rob

Weirrrrrrd reply.

I'm curious, why is this post/announcement identical to ones posted on 2004 March 7 and 2002 July 28? They are perfect copies. Go to the APOD archive list and CTRL+F for "An Anomalous SETI Signal", you'll see what I mean. Weirrrrrrd!!! :shock: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990330.html - 30/...

BTW, does SETI listen on standard UHF/VHF frequencies too? To detect "unwanted alian transimssions".

At the beginning I thought this was one of the two "alien" signals just detected as coming from one of the 54 "earth-like" planets just discovered by Kepler: http://shrewdraven.org/webfm_send/126 Then I figured out this image is from 2006... Are instead these 2 signals available ...

BMAONE23 wrote: If you have the latest JAVA, this applet will show you a good 3D view of the relationship between Earth and Hartley2
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1 ... ;cad=0#orb

thanks.

Why can't we see any tail attached to this comet? Which are Earth and Hartley positions in their orbits?



I can't find any gif animation, and I can't see youtube from this PC.

"These spectacular images," she says, "are just the beginning."

so where is the remaining?!?

Webcast is over.
Communications estabilished again with spacecraft.
flyby-mission accomplished!

First images!
http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1246

Hi-Res will be available at 23:00 CEST. (21 GMT)

flyby performed. Successfull? Who knows? :( We'll have to wait till 23:00 CEST for first images release! 17:44:56 Closest approach to Lutetia 17:54:53 End asteroid closed-loop tracking 18:00:00 Start webcast - Media event live from ESA/ESOC 18:19:53 Resume radio communications via high-gain antenna ...

Real time approach data:
http://www.dmuller.net/spaceflight/real ... on=rosetta

47.000 km to go, and counting!

jumpjack wrote:cool, thanks.
anyone which is also able to show the image description...?

never mind, I figured out which keywords to use for search and found this:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/apod.html

Properly resizes the image, and activates active desktop to display description with active hyperlinks!

cool, thanks.
anyone which is also able to show the image description...?

Do you know any script/program/whatelse able to automatically change my wallpaper everyday to current APOD? It would be really interesting to find a new APOD on my office PC every time I turn it on!

Subscribed (and counting ).

How can I know the direction from which the sun light comes in this photo? http://lc84.altervista.org/marte/immagini/mars-lake-2-edit.jpg The PDS label only specifies vertical angle: what about the horizontal one?!? Does the light come from left, right, down, downleft...? And how can I know the spac...

Notes from http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/AAREADME.TXT: Experimental Data Record ( EDR ) Products are the permanent record of the raw images obtained by HiRISE. The EDRs have the properties of unprocessed and unrectified imaging maintaining the original spacecraft viewing orientation and opti...

so... seing how far you have advanced into this, is there complete list of ppp_oooooo_tttt_ffff_c.IMG images, where one can see if some specific combination exists, online? I found this site: http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/ But I don't know if it does contain ALL images. This is a nice searc...

I found official documentation about naming convention: LINK Here it is an excerpt: ppp _ oooooo _ tttt _ffff_c.IMG ppp = Mission Phase: INT = Integration and Testing CAL = Calibration Observations ATL = ATLO Observations KSC = Kennedy Space Center Observations SVT = Sequence Verification Test LAU =...

BTW, which is the official NASA opinion about these holes/lakes?

Where can I find some explanations about naming conventions for hirise images?
What does PSP_3647_1745 stand for?
How can I find the "PSP image" for a known latitude/longuitude position?

makc wrote:

jumpjack wrote:Links to images:
...
Jeanne(-5.636 N, 241.259 E) (subject of this thread)

the TIFF version has this "lake" in about 10x10 pixels resolution.

what do you mean?

I need this kind of resolution:
http://lc84.altervista.org/marte/immagini/MarsCave1.png

Links to images:

Craters?
Dena (-6.084 N, 239.061 E)
Chloe (-4.926 N, 239.193 E)
Wendy (-8.099 N, 240.242 E)
Annie (-6.267 N, 240.005 E)

Lakes?
Abbey (-8.498 N, 240.349 E)
Nikki (-8.498 N, 240.349 E) (as above)
Jeanne(-5.636 N, 241.259 E) (subject of this thread)

My two cents about mars "holes": http://lc84.altervista.org/marte/buchi%20marte.html It's in Italian, but maybe online translators can help you. In a few words: no holes, "just" lakes. WATER lakes (also water appears BLACK from space, being it reflecting SPACE rather than SKY). m...