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The space pictures thread [Dial-up will die]

croxiscroxis I am the walrus
Post your wonderful and happy space images here!

[IMG]http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/occult_mars.jpg[/IMG]
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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Alternatively, people could post them as links, and dial up wouldn't have to die.

    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. ;)
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    *sniff*

    I'm trying to spark some activity here and you have to ruin it!

    *throws shoes and a spoon for good measure*
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [IMG]http://sleekgeek.typepad.com/sleekgeekcom/images/lunar_space2.jpg[/IMG]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [URL=http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsexpress/270-2803066fco-AppolinarisP_H.jpg][img]http://www.esa.int/images/2702803066fco-AppolinarisP_L.jpg[/img][/URL]
    Click for high res
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [URL=http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsexpress/258-170505-0945-6-fco-01-AramChaos_H.jpg][img]http://www.esa.int/images/258-170505-0945-6-fco-01-AramChaos_L.jpg[/img][/URL]
    Click for high res
  • ArethusaArethusa Universal Cathode
    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.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Arethusa [/i]
    [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]
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    The reason why they are false colour is because false colour provides much more information than real colour in most cases :)
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    ... and people should really get broadband... believe me, you will never want to go back to dial-up, yes, it's that nice. :)

    [URL=http://www.the-planet-mars.com/mars-pictures.html]The Face on Mars[/URL]

    I think it blinked... :D
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [url=http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/face.html]Just in case anyone still believes the face thing.[/url]

    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]
  • ArethusaArethusa Universal Cathode
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [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.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    [IMG]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/154341main_image_feature_631_ys_4.jpg[/IMG]
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    Does anyone have any idea if those gold discs have a practical chance of being deciphered, should they be found by another civilization? I don't know if a reader was included, and I'd be curious if, say, the prototype was given to some university with no information on its format so they could try to puzzle it out.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Here you go:

    [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record[/url]
  • DarthCaligulaDarthCaligula Elite Ranger
    How about THIS?!!! [url]http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/a12hlmet.jpg[/url]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Please tell me you don't believe that stuff.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Why, it's a stage projector... :D

    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.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [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
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    You're thinking of the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque]Pioneer plaque[/url].
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [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
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Stingray [/i]
    [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
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i]
    [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
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Stingray [/i]
    [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..
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Focus is a little soft, i should really use a tripod when i'm using my 2x teleconverter.

    [URL=http://www.ircbra.com/pic/moon.jpg]The Moon[/URL]
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    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]
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Entil'Zha [/i]
    [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
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [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.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Stingray [/i]
    [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.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Stingray [/i]
    [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.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    [url]http://www.croxis.net/gallery/v/events/eclips/IMG_1272.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1[/url]

    I don't think its that bad for a $150 camera!
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