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or was that cellphone-photographer jim b's lost joshua tree shot just beaming in ?
Hey, so that's where I left my thermos bottle.
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"The Viking Landers have two eyes and therefore can view the landscape in three dimensions, just as we do with our own eyes. However, presentation of stereoscopic pairs has been a frustrating problem. Because the camera separation is almost 1 m, objects close to the spacecraft are viewed with orientation equivalent to that for an object at the tip of one's nose. The pictures have to be carefully rectified so that the relative scales remain the same throughout the scene. The distance between the images must be controlled to permit optimum fusion."
The NASA rover Opportunity landed in a shallow crater on Mars over the weekend and transmitted back images of a smooth red surface punctured with bedrock outcroppings. Ray Suarez discusses the mission and its findings with Orlando Figuero, director of NASA's Mars exploration program.
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per nyt watchers of the sky story
nasa mars landscape digital color photograph
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- bill 1-27-2004 6:52 pm
or was that cellphone-photographer jim b's lost joshua tree shot just beaming in ?
- bill 1-27-2004 7:04 pm [add a comment]
Hey, so that's where I left my thermos bottle.
- mark 1-27-2004 10:30 pm [add a comment]
(pls note ive posted addl links on the original post)
3-D
"The Viking Landers have two eyes and therefore can view the landscape in three dimensions, just as we do with our own eyes. However, presentation of stereoscopic pairs has been a frustrating problem. Because the camera separation is almost 1 m, objects close to the spacecraft are viewed with orientation equivalent to that for an object at the tip of one's nose. The pictures have to be carefully rectified so that the relative scales remain the same throughout the scene. The distance between the images must be controlled to permit optimum fusion."
- bill 1-28-2004 2:39 am [add a comment]
The NASA rover Opportunity landed in a shallow crater on Mars over the weekend and transmitted back images of a smooth red surface punctured with bedrock outcroppings. Ray Suarez discusses the mission and its findings with Orlando Figuero, director of NASA's Mars exploration program.
- bill 1-28-2004 6:00 am [add a comment]