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- ionbattle, on 10/12/2007, -8/+84cool as *****.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49There's a surprising lack of alien artifacts and mining colonies.
- curios, on 10/12/2007, -13/+53That's an ambiguous statement.
- mikeruiz7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Mind-blowing to think that's another planet. Very cool.
- Shuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Now let's get a new rover to go up there and take super hi-definition videos!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29reminds me of ubuntu.
- renatoc8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Look at the tire marks... NASA can't drive for crap...
- kd5ftn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Nice find, some more available here: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f2_mars.html
- HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Ooooooh, I'm going to put my house on that hill... right... over... there! Dibs!
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"There's a surprising lack of alien artifacts and mining colonies."
What are you talking about? http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/mr_dbr/IKNEWIT.jpg - andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15How long till I can go there my self?
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Except, of course, for the robot at the bottom.
- bluenash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12just a few hundred thousand years of terra-forming and it'll be ready to move right in.
- litfsh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@curios:
Dust devils on Mars scale pretty large, about 8-10km, but the atmosphere isn't dense enough for what we consider a tornado. Because the air on Mars is about 1% as dense as on earth, these dust devils wouldn't push you around by the force of the wind, but they'll still be zinging sand particles at roughly 50 mph (these are estimates based on models of Martian atmosphere - none of the landing craft have had devices to measure airborne particle speeds).
The craziest part about these big dust devils is that unlike earth, there's no water in the air when these twisters form. So the constant rubbing of these dry particles could build up significant static electricity! Imagine your worst fear from a tornado being that it will zap you with lightning....
Also, early martian spring is when these dust devils start up again (winter they're pretty scarce), so the timing is certainly right.
PS - IAAPS (I am a planetary scientist - in training, at least) - MaxPlante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Before YouTube, Google and Web 2.0, we did see it 10 years ago, when the first rover landed on Mars during the Pathfinder mission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder). The QTVR was released by NASA, publicly on the Internet, just hours after the landing. Now that was stunning! However, the release had happened so quickly that it really felt like a live event on the Web.
But I must admit, the resolution is a tad higher today. - lcampagn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Cool, but I'm pretty sure I saw the FIRST quicktime VR from mars about 10 years ago.
- litfsh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@curios:
Not sure exactly what you saw, but the plume of smoke could be a dust devil. Here's a cool animation showing dust devils in action:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050527a.html
The dust devils are thought to be one important reason for the rovers' longevity. Every once in a while, one goes right over a rover, sweeping the solar panels clean! - gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yep - it even works on Linux.
Speaking of, if you look straight up at the sky in that VR image, you'll see the next release of Ubuntu's wallpaper. - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@lagos3sgte
Your contacts are in backwards. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Amazing. Something completely untouched by human hands.
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Probably not, since Apple has provided free software to create QTVR movies for over 10 years now. I remember using it as a freshman in high school.
- smenzel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Incredibly cool. And a good use for QuickTime VR.
- DoctuhJason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That is pretty surreal...dugg
- Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Java is serving up the quicktime VR.
- MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4where? All I see are the tracks from the rover.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@avihappy:
Not sure who you're warning, but I think that people who click a link that says "Quicktime VR" will realize that they need QT to see this... - insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't forget:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4161/marsyr7.jpg - Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5ya know if when I see this I think of two things.....
1. Its awesome and it looks similar to someplace on earth...."makes me feel a little at home"
2. It looks soo barren that I think to myself , why isn't there anyone or anything around and who got rid of them all.
Then you watch this video of the earth and pangea,
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2828991
and like they already found some traces of water... so it must underground....? who knows. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You lack a lawn.
- curios, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6If you zoom right in towards the horizon (use cntrl/shift to zoom in/out) there appears to be a couple of anomalies. Pan left or right for a while and you will see what appears to be bright light floating near a distant mountain and then panning further, what looks like a smoke plume trailing off to the right from the ground.
!? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5direct
http://www.fotoausflug.de/panorama/mars/mars/qtvr.mov - AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hardly the first though. I saw one when the first rover landed in 1997 and sent back panoramic shots.
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3looks like the driver was drunk ;)
- jedikd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4So once we set up our colony on Mars we win the game, right?
- aRandomDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not true. There was a Quicktime VR of mars back in 1997 - proof - http://web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.com/
- HalFTW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder if they made the panorama with Hugin? :) http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
- Xill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We are going to outer worlds and creating wonderfull art, yet still beating the hell out of each others in endless wars of the Military complex and oil industries. What a paradox.
- Tollboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@curios:
that is not a weather anomaly or anything like that it is actually much more simple. it is where the 2 photographs have been fused to give the VR illusion. the reason the sky is darker on the edge of one photograph is caused by the way the light is hitting the lens of the camera so it seems a bit darker in one picture to the next depending on where the sun is. - DrScott, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3To the top left of the small mountain which is almost 180 degrees clockwise from the starting point is something flying through the air, an alien spacecraft, perhaps. Or a lens aberration. You decide.
- awol21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The atmosphere sucks also, it's lack of oxygen would cause suffocation. Terrible.
- howdesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you look closely at the tracks, I think you can see that one of the wheels isn't working properly. I recall that the rover experienced problems with a wheel early in the mission, but it must not have prohibited it from getting around too much. On another note, you've got to chalk it up to either great engineering or luck that NASA has been able to keep the rovers working so long. Rare that they get so much bang for the buck.
- Laxaloot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2rtfa... "For improved immersion, the interactive panoramic image has been contrast enhanced and the sky is an extrapolation from the narrow band of sky in the original pictures (so there is no sun, for example.)"
- NeoRicen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can't wait till sometime in the future when we get these from Titan.
- Mc_Carter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When It loads it looks like the holodeck from star trek.
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really hope NASA doesn't lose funding for these type of missions. I think it would be amazing if we could get rovers to all the planets and major moons in the solar system (accept the gas giants of course - I'm pretty sure that is impossible). With future technologies rovers would be able to last much longer, move faster, cross more difficult terrain and capture even better imagery and data - while costing less.. These type of missions cost a tiny fraction of manned missions and can add so much to our knowledge and perspective of the solar system. Seeing interactive panoramas like this just makes Mars seem so much more "real" - it looks just like a desert on earth. Just imagine getting imagery like this from Titan etc.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Look at the tire marks... NASA can't drive for crap..."
Isn't there like an 8 hour delay on driving those things? I'd say thats pretty good. - Mushroonaut, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2I tried looking for the sun....no luck. :-(
- KathyAlbrecht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That beach sucks, all those small rocks would cut your feet
- Chordinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's not much going on up on Mars eh?
Well, there's this feature, or documentary I like to call it, on Mars called 'Total Recall'. Anyone interested in learning more about the planet should check it out. - TheSurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No sorry NASA has not made any QTVR of the panoramas until recently.
The old small ones from 1997 was made by another VR photographer.
And NASA still do not have the knowledge to do the conversion correctly. I am in contact with them as they asked me for help though so perhaps they will have fullscreen QTVR at some time also.
The first QTVR from the Rover was published by me at panoramas.dk only 2 hours after the first panoramic image was released in 2004
Tuesday Jan 13 2004 02.00 GMT
http://www.panoramas.dk/mars.html
This was the first high resolution fullscreen QTVR from Mars also.
I also made the first cubic QTVR from Mars both the one you can see in BW and from the old 1997 panorama.
There is another one from the Spirit which also can be converted to full cubic which I am working on. It will contain full information in color when you look down just like the one in BW.
The problem with some of them is that the horizon is not correct and it has to be corrected to give you the right perspective.
It needs some special knowledge to do it.
Hans/panoramas.dk -
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