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1 posted on 08/27/2012 5:30:55 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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2 posted on 08/27/2012 5:32:56 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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I’ll be jumping back to read and watch at the source article, but I wanted to THANK YOU first, for providing a thread on something other than political conventions.


3 posted on 08/27/2012 5:39:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( Lame and ill-informed post)
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An Undead Thread Tech&Science ping to something neat.


4 posted on 08/27/2012 5:44:33 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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VERY cool. Thanks.


5 posted on 08/27/2012 5:44:33 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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bttt


7 posted on 08/27/2012 5:50:22 PM PDT by PogySailor (Obama is a SCOAMF)
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Utterly AMAZING that anyone with the knowledge and time, can sit down on their home computer and do this. SMH...


9 posted on 08/27/2012 5:56:01 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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I went to the original image sequence and started oding manual motion tracking, watching a crater here or there. I made sure I always had at least two data points at any given time so that I could reposition and rotate for fluid motion.
Then I copied that motion tracking data to some null objects, and told after effects to interpolate the data in between using bezier curves.

Oh, I hate people like that.

16 posted on 08/27/2012 6:34:19 PM PDT by GVnana
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Direct link to video...@Complete MSL Curiosity Descent Interpolated HD
17 posted on 08/27/2012 6:35:00 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Marvelous!!!!


19 posted on 08/27/2012 7:02:48 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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Now, this is what you see when you look up “cool” in the dictionary.

Thanks


21 posted on 08/27/2012 7:48:13 PM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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I had been trying to follow the original thumbnail video down to the landing site, but found it impossible. With the hi-res version I could do it, and of course it is that much easier with this "massaged" version. Below is a frame of the video marked with the landing site and an excerpt of a HiRise image display at about the same scale, also marked. This image is oriented north-south. You can see the ridge line on the left of this image in earlier frames of the video, and from there you can track the landing site back to the beginning.

One comment: It looks like the entire landing site was scoured by the rockets, since numerous rocks seem to be uncovered. I guess the four scour marks are much deeper.


24 posted on 08/27/2012 9:42:35 PM PDT by dr_lew
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At about 1:17 you can see the transition between the parachute and the skycrane as the view abruptly stops swinging, looking for all the worlds like an Apollo landing.


30 posted on 08/28/2012 1:16:58 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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Yeah, but where’s the flag? (Just kidding.) Thanks for posting.


31 posted on 08/28/2012 3:33:41 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (ABO)
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Wow! Thanks!


34 posted on 08/28/2012 11:20:07 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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I can ALWAYS count on you for an interesting thread! thanks so much!
texokie


41 posted on 08/29/2012 9:47:06 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. EdmondBurke)
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