NASA Remasters 20-Year-Old Galileo Photographs of Jupiter's Moon, Europa 38
An anonymous reader writes with news that NASA has released remastered pictures of Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft. "Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa. The mosaic of color images was obtained in the late 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. This is the first time that NASA is publishing a version of the scene produced using modern image processing techniques. This view of Europa stands out as the color view that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution. An earlier, lower-resolution version of the view, published in 2001, featured colors that had been strongly enhanced. The new image more closely approximates what the human eye would see. Space imaging enthusiasts have produced their own versions of the view using the publicly available data, but NASA has not previously issued its own rendition using near-natural color."
Remastered? (Score:1)
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But it was staged! The stage was in the World Trade Center and 9/11 was a coverup to hide it! They used a timetraveling UFO from Area 51 to bring the footage back to 1969. It was all thought up by the Illuminati to prevent us from seeing that the lizards have taken over our government!
never send a robot to do a man's job... (Score:2)
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I get that. I was tweaked by the "as the human eye would see it" editorial statement. "Color corrected high resolution image" would have been enough.
Although, now that you mention it, I bet a oil painting done by an astronaut in synchronous orbit of Europa would be great.
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Until the woman uses colour names like "Peach", etc. to describe it
PEACH IS A FRUIT!!
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- even if we were sending humans, they could still only show us pictures
- we're not sending robots to know how it looks from a human eye, we're sending them to get scientific data
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Not really. That far from the sun, the human eye would not get enough light to capture an accurate image.
Send the best instrument: a Mark I Eyeball.
Darwin says it's actually the latest iteration in a line of millions of eyeballs.
Maybe I'm just lonely, but it (Score:2)
looks like a mammogram
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Antenna problems (Score:1)
Too bad Galileo had antenna problems. It could have taken far more snapshots from far more angles with less image compression. Overall it was a successful mission because it had other powerful instruments, but was light on the imaging side.
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I assume you are jesting. It did have RTGs.
The main antenna folded similar to an umbrella when in launch packaging. It failed to open all the way, perhaps due to the lubricant hardening in storage caused by the launch backlog from the first shuttle disaster. A back-up omnidirectional antenna was used instead, which produced a usable signal of something roughly like 1/200 of the intended primary antenna.
Man! (Score:1)
Looks like it smashed into one helluva bug!
20-Year-old photos? (Score:1)
We're haven't reached the mid-2010's, so unless "late 1990's" includes 1994 or 1995, it hasn't been 20 years yet. Unless of course 15 years is now being rounded up to 20 years because kids these days are as good with mathematics as they are with english. What's a 25% difference between friends?
In case I'm wrong, please note that as usual I haven't read TFA, only the summary.
The full res image (Score:3, Informative)
This is the full resolution image as a JPEG [nasa.gov]. More details on this page [nasa.gov], including a link to the TIFF version. Bonus: a heck of a lot less overhead to display versus that badly optimized redorbit.com page.
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This is the full resolution image as a JPEG [nasa.gov]. More details on this page [nasa.gov], including a link to the TIFF version. Bonus: a heck of a lot less overhead to display versus that badly optimized redorbit.com page.
Thanks for that. Much better.
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Golden Years (Score:2)
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The NASA article is a government work and not subject to copyright, so I can save you from doing any clicking whatsoever:
The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution.
The view was previously released as a mosaic with lower resolution and strongly
More importantly... (Score:3)
What kind of shirt were they wearing when they made the announcement? The world needs to know.
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As of about 3 days ago, all space mission specialists are required by HR to work in the nude, so as to not offend anyone with a blog.
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...a Bill Cosby shirt [ducks head]
Careful there... (Score:4)
In addition to the newly processed image, a new video details why this likely ocean world is a high priority for future exploration.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
Instead of a crappy blog link, here's the source (Score:1)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/n... [nasa.gov]
Wait, wait!! Let me do this Slashdot style, and find the worst possible source for the material... Here's a Gizmodo link which references the RedOrbit article which links to JPL:
http://gizmodo.com/europa-rema... [gizmodo.com]
Can it get worse? You bet! Let's go deeper into the brown web... a vast sea of crappy auto-generated content.
http://mobilitybeat.com/gizmod... [mobilitybeat.com]