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Mars Image
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Posted on 09/03/2003 8:39:47 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite imaged the planet Mars.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crevolist; imaging; mars; space
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To: RadioAstronomer
Yours is cooler. :o)
It's all I could see when I first looked at your pictures of Mars. Did a quick Google for cowboy on horse and found just the shot I wanted. Kind of eerie.
I wish I would've had a telescope last week.
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posted on
09/03/2003 9:53:04 PM PDT
by
arasina
(Tag line dedicated to my friend Don DiFranco, 9/11/01 WTC Tower 1)
To: general_re
are ya sitting at the console or not? ;)In charge I aint. LOL!
To: arasina
I wish I would've had a telescope last week.Will still be just fine for the next few weeks as well :-)
To: RadioAstronomer
Excuses, excuses... ;)
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posted on
09/03/2003 9:58:23 PM PDT
by
general_re
(Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?)
To: RadioAstronomer
![](http://home.san.rr.com/notime/gorby1.jpg)
...The planet Gorby.
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posted on
09/03/2003 10:04:14 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: arasina
Let me clarify that.
LOL - I knew there must 've been a reason to open this thread...
To: RadioAstronomer
Will still be just fine for the next few weeks as well :-)
Doesn't one of Mars moons orbit the opposite of basically the entire universe? Clockwise?
BTW, I don't like being told I'm wrong! LOL!
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posted on
09/03/2003 10:10:47 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(A source of alternative energy; windmills in front of liberals mouths.)
To: RadioAstronomer
Okay; we know you're hiding the "Face on Mars" images to protect your space alien pals...... what's-his-name Richard C. Hoagland, ex-NASA employee and erstwhile champion of crank-science, said so on the Not-Art-Bell-Anymore Overnight Freak Show....
To: Freedom_Isn't_Free
Mars, Moon, what's the difference? ;-)
To: jwh_Denver
Doesn't one of Mars moons orbit the opposite of basically the entire universe? Clockwise?Uhhhh.... Nope
Phobos: 28 km long & 20 km wide
Deimos: 16 km long & 10 km wide
Orbits at about 3 and 7 planetary radii
(Earth's Moon orbits at about 60 radii)
Both orbit synchronously
tidally locked, like the Moon
Both orbit prograde direction
Phobos orbits in 7 hours 59 minutes
Deimos orbits in 30 hours 18 minutes
To: Cultural Jihad
Mars, Moon, what's the difference? ;-)30-150 or so million miles! LOL
To: longshadow
Okay; we know you're hiding the "Face on Mars" images to protect your space alien palsROFL! :-)
To: united1000
This is my favorite
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posted on
09/03/2003 10:34:15 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: Cultural Jihad
To: longshadow
Art-BellLate at night, many times I used to listen to his show in the control room :-)
Made the night go faster. :-)
To: general_re; RadioAstronomer
Admit it - you guys are running outside and spelling out dirty words with the cars in the parking lot, and then shooting pictures from space, aren't you?"Geeks gone wild!" I love it!!! RA, I think they've finally got you pegged. :^)
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posted on
09/03/2003 11:00:42 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman
Shhh..... you will kill all the mystique of ol RA! hehehehe
To: RadioAstronomer
Thought you may be interested. Took this shot last Saturday night.
This was the best of about 50 exposures.
Along with the polar ice cap, some faint surface detail can be seen. Used the manual focus on the telescope, and it was tedious and critical. An electronic focuser is in the near future.
Getting ready to go to a CCD imaging format next, including a modified webcam where hundreds of the same image can be stacked in a software program. This stacking process can bring out unbelievable resolution and detail. Many amateurs are now experimenting with these inexpensive modified webcams and software.
This shot isn't Hubble, but I was happy to get at least one with surface detail.
To: RadioAstronomer
Toast them with your Pepsi, RA.
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posted on
09/03/2003 11:08:27 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: Joe Hadenuf
WOW! I love the picture! :-)) Way cool!
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