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Footage of Curiosity’s Descent onto Mars Interpolated to 25 Frames per Second
PETAPIXEL ^ | August 27, 2012 | Michael Zhang

Posted on 08/27/2012 5:30:44 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER

NASA’s Curiosity Rover snapped photographs at 5 frames per second as it descended onto the face of Mars a few weeks ago. The footage that results when the images are combined into a 15 frame per second HD video is pretty amazing, but apparently not amazing enough for a YouTube user named hahahaspam. He spent four straight days taking the 5 fps footage and interpolating it to 25 frames per second. This means that instead of a video showing the choppy landing at 3 times the actual speed, his video shows the landing smoothly and in real time!

(Excerpt) Read more at petapixel.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: curiosity; mars
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

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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