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- Ransomowris, on 10/12/2007, -6/+418"Moment Frozen in Time"
So, in other words, a picture? - void2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+189can't wait to have a nice big freeway and artificial light blocking it out
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -4/+154judging from the colors, looks like the next default Ubuntu wallpaper with almost no rework required.
- Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -3/+89The rover should get inside - sand people will be out soon...
- TomTruelle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+80youre missing a sun there buddy...
- DarkMeld, on 10/12/2007, -3/+70I have to say the sunset on earth looks better
- PeteyUK, on 10/12/2007, -9/+71Tatooine anyone?
- IdelosIX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+58Um, when did Mars lose it's atmosphere?
- bonyicecream, on 10/12/2007, -10/+57http://www.digg.com/space/Sunset_on_Mars_jpg_link
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/A_Moment_Frozen_in_Time
I'm OK with you submitting a dupe on this because it's pretty cool and it hasn't made the front page in almost half a year, but for the love of god, come up with an original title. - Jawsh91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43Forget a "Picture" Section
We totally need a "Moment frozen in time" section already - steviebaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42There's a Starbucks just out of shot
- djwk1928, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Why is there a robot in your picture and no robot in the original dugg picture?
- ihate2reg4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32If you rove without rhythm, you won't attract the worm.
- PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29"Why is there a robot in your picture and no robot in the original dugg picture?"
and if it's a portrait of the robot WHO THE ***** IS TAKING THE PICTURE?
I demand accountability of our mars rovers.....they're having martian/robot orgy grokfest over there and all we get are pictures of sunsets.... - JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23"Hey b*tch. This is real. Learn to read, especially when you paste it in your reply. ... Go back to your hole."
I'm always amazed that people can be so rude in a response and yet feel they're gentlemanly enough to censor their own mild swearing. It's like a prostitute shoving her bare breasts in your face while at the same time covering her ankles because they stir base passions. - bigboehmboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I agree.
*hugs atmosphere* - FeartheKnighted, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21The sun, she is so small
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Let's see you take a better picture of a martian sunset. :P ;)
- Fedge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20...they're....
*sigh* - Ledenses, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20@guice:
NASA used Adobe Photoshop® software to edit the robot out. - virologydustin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23I like the picture because it is something we can all relate to, even though it is far away on an alien world.
- vrioux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Hey b*tch. This is real. Learn to read, especially when you paste it in your reply.
"The mosaic was assembled from frames taken by the panoramic camera on the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol (May 19, 2005); see PIA07997."
The fake image is the one on the page you refer to. They added a rover on top of the hills, that's all. The sunset in the original article is real and does NOT contain any artificial rover.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07997
Go back to your hole. - alkajazz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I gotta go to Tashi station and get some power convertors.
- alamody, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/specialEffects/spirit/images/PIA07997_plusRover-A667R1.jpg
- Ricapar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13http://ricapar.net/upload/t.jpg
There, I fixed it. - bigboehmboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I know Mars has an atmosphere. It's just less than a hundreth of the pressure and 95% CO2. Not very huggable.
- bobcrotch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15It isn't 10 minutes staring at the monitor beautiful
- mattym, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Everyone fire up Binary Sunset by John Williams....
- Redemption289, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20Yeah, having an atmosphere is nice. Not only do we get to live (breathe and etc.), we get to see pretty red sunsets as well. (Unless you live in New York)
- GeneralKickass, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13I'm surprised the sand worms haven't gotten to it.....
- guice, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Cause NASA photoshopped the robot out in the one linked above.
- driftwood07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8this has been my background since the last time this was on digg {:
- billcd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Those sure to look like foot prints in the lower left of that photo..........
I know there just rover tracks. - Emachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Our sun is bigger.
XD - drafhk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Or fending off an invasion of demons?
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Vectorphobe - The one with the rover is actually the "photoshop", it looks beautiful I think though. It looks so real and creepy at the same time, I'm not sure why.
Special-Effects Spirit Silhouetted on "Jibsheet"
This synthetic image of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover on top of a rock called "Jibsheet" was produced using "Virtual Presence in Space" technology. Developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., this technology combines visualization and image-processing tools with Hollywood-style special effects. The image was created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic. The size of the rover in the image is approximately correct and was based on the size of the rover tracks in the mosaic. The mosaic was assembled from frames taken by the panoramic camera on the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol (May 19, 2005); see PIA07997.
Because this synthesis provides viewers with a sense of their own "virtual presence" (as if they were there themselves), such views can be useful to mission teams in planning exploration by enhancing perspective and a sense of scale.
Image Note: Rover model by Dan Maas; synthetic image by Koji Kuramura, Zareh Gorjian, Mike Stetson and Eric M. De Jong.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell - Toasterstrudull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Someone photoshopped the rover in, not out. Look at the shadow. It's not going the correct direction at all. And also what would be taking the photo if the rover was over on the ridge?
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -12/+17btw, direct link from below (alamody) for anyone that wants a new Wallpaper:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/specialEffects/spirit/images/PIA07997_plusRover-A667R1.jpg - dungbeetle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The sky has a blue hue to it. That's not what I was expecting.
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You do realize that what you just posted says it's NOT fake. They changed color a bit, and compiled different REAL images.
- Vectorphobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@1021
that is one of the most poorly photoshopped pictures I've ever seen, zoom in once and the rover is casting a blob shadow. -.- - osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Vectorphobe - The one with the rover is under a directory called "specialEffects", the image name is "PIA07997_plusRover-A667R1.jpg" This, well and logic, leads me to believe the picture without the rover is the original. But I'll let you go on thinking you spotted a bad photoshop job...
- popothebright, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10..I just looked at that for about 10 minutes. Beautiful.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4You should get yourself to Rekall. You know, for the memory of a lifetime.
- shyner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did anyone else wish when they looked at that picture that they were actually standing there?
- friedcalamari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On Mercury our SUN is bigger. :p
- billcd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It really has nothing to do with the composition of the photo. What makes the shot great is that it's from MARS!!! It's a place where no human has ever been!
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I see you've been submitting a lot lately exoendo, I only remember this because when we still had a ranking feature i'd always be a bit behind you and you'd go up and at one point you made a huge fuss about your name.
- veersite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6It's cool if you imagine yourself standing there in an environmental suit taking it in on your way back to a Mars outpost station or something.
Neat. - specialK16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, we have a Burried as Old....
but I'm not kevin. -
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