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Posted by baalke on January 31, 2007, 2:17 pm
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HiRISE CAMERA VIEWS JUPITER FROM MARS ORBIT
(From Lori Stiles, University Communications, 520-626-4402)
- Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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Contact information at the end
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The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can take
interesting astronomical pictures, team scientists report today.
The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) based at the
University of
Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson has produced a view
of
Jupiter as seen from Mars orbit.
The scientists used the HiRISE camera to take a 10 megabyte image of
Jupiter and its major satellites when they were calibrating the
camera's
pointing and color response on Jan. 11, 2007. The team is releasing a
version of that image today on the HiRISE Webpage,
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu.
The image successfully served its purpose for the calibration tests.
However, the raw image was blurred because of an oversight in planning
the
unusual observation. Since, Dennis Gallagher, the HiRISE chief optical
designer, formerly with Ball Aerospace, Boulder, Colo., and now with
CDM-Optics in Boulder, sharpened the image.
With this sharpening, and because Mars is closer to Jupiter than Earth
is,
this image has comparable resolution as the Hubble Space Telescope's
pictures of Jupiter, team members noted in the image caption.
The colors seen by the HiRISE camera are not those we humans would see
because the camera detects light at a slightly longer wavelength that
our
eyes do.
The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) team, led by
University of Arizona Professor Alfred S. McEwen, is based at UA's
Lunar and
Planetary Laboratory in Tucson. HiRISE began the science phase of the
mission in November, 2006, and posts new images and captions on the
Internet
at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu every Wednesday.
More information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is
available
at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a
division of
the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the
project and built the spacecraft. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball
Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.
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Science Contact Information
Alfred S. McEwen, Principal Investigator, HiRISE
520-621-4573 mcewen@lpl.arizona.edu
UA Media Contact Information
Lori Stiles, University Communications, 520-626-4402
Yisrael Spinoza, HiRISE, 520-626-7432
HiRISE Website - http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu
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Posted by Jan Panteltje on January 31, 2007, 3:42 pm
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On a sunny day (31 Jan 2007 11:17:24 -0800) it happened baalke@earthlink.net
>of
>Jupiter as seen from Mars orbit.
>
>The scientists used the HiRISE camera to take a 10 megabyte image of
>Jupiter and its major satellites when they were calibrating the
>camera's
>pointing and color response on Jan. 11, 2007. The team is releasing a
>version of that image today on the HiRISE Webpage,
>http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu.
http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/diafotizo.php?ID=PSP_002162_9030
Looks alive to me ;-)
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Posted by Prai Jei on February 3, 2007, 3:57 pm
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> Looks alive to me ;-)
Reminds me of a funny incident in my first job (accounts clerk with an
insurance company). Agent A wrote in to cancel a certain insurance policy,
"insured deceased". Next week agent B sends in the premium. An exchange of
queries resulted in the memorable line from agent B: "The insured appeared
to be alive to me."
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