The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Scarecrow · 10 Oct 2012 at 11:59

Good job all round

Combat squirrel · 10 Oct 2012 at 12:09

As ever, pure awesome, well done spaceX :cool:

Cosimo · 10 Oct 2012 at 14:52

Dragon is bolted to the Harmony module and now part of the space station.

Cosimo · 10 Oct 2012 at 15:33

Cosimo · 11 Oct 2012 at 09:23

Time to go aboard the station and take a first look inside the Dragon:

Skillmister · 11 Oct 2012 at 20:51

What exactly is it that makes Curiosity images look so... strange? Is it the atmosphere, special type of camera or something else?

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And this one especially, looks like cgi

PermaBanned · 11 Oct 2012 at 20:53

We can't really answer that without knowing what you mean by strange, but i'd say either 1) the angle or 2) the fact that's it was taken on another frickin' planet!

Skillmister · 11 Oct 2012 at 20:55

I don't even know how to describe it

It just looks so un-earthly and i can't work out why (obviously because it is, but what makes it so?!) A lot of the surfaces on the rover are really matte and the ground looks like it's rendered as cgi rather than real.

I think it's just something to do with the light.

Glaucus · 11 Oct 2012 at 21:16

That picture looks like it is taken on a beach, other than the redy colour.

quickshot89 · 11 Oct 2012 at 21:17

Its to do with the light and colours :cool:

Skillmister · 11 Oct 2012 at 21:23

Glaucus said:
That picture looks like it is taken on a beach, other than the redy colour.

I disagree, but then again i've spent far too much time looking at cgi so i end up comparing everything

stulid · 12 Oct 2012 at 17:33

Cosimo · 13 Oct 2012 at 09:12

Cosimo · 13 Oct 2012 at 09:42

Cosimo · 13 Oct 2012 at 10:33

Curiosity's Location During First Scooping

This 360-degree scene shows the surroundings of the location where NASA Mars rover Curiosity arrived on the 59th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Oct. 5, 2012). It is a mosaic of images taken by Curiosity's Navigation Camera (Navcam) on sols 59 and 60.

Smooth surfaces of the windblown sand and dust of the "Rocknest" area, in the foreground, are what signaled from a distance that this might be an appropriate place to spend about three weeks collecting and using the mission's first few scoopfuls of soil. The rover scooped up its first sample on Sol 61 (Oct. 7, 2012).

South is at the center of this panorama, north at both ends. Mount Sharp is on the horizon in the southeast. The "Glenelg" area planned as the next destination lies to the east. Tracks that Curiosity's wheels made while driving toward Rocknest recede toward the west. For scale, Curiosity leaves parallel tracks about 9 feet (2.7 meters) apart.

The scene is presented here as a cylindrical projection.

stulid · 13 Oct 2012 at 14:56

Cosimo · 13 Oct 2012 at 17:18

LA journey:

stulid · 13 Oct 2012 at 17:27

Fluttershy said:
What exactly is it that makes Curiosity images look so... strange? Is it the atmosphere, special type of camera or something else?

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And this one especially, looks like cgi

Does look a bit like a toy/model.

StriderX · 13 Oct 2012 at 17:33

Curiosity pictures are "strange" due to the fact that it is basically calibrated to an earthly colour palette, to make it look less dull.

PermaBanned · 13 Oct 2012 at 17:39

I thought Curiosity had full colour cameras?

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