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moderation: A 360-Degree ‘Street View’ From Mars — After seeing all the amazing imagery so far from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, I know everyone wants to go there and take in the visual treats of Gale Crater. With the help of a 360-degree panorama you can virtually explore Curiosity’s landing site; sort of like a Martian version of Google’s Street View. Take a martian minute to explore the panorama at 360pano.eu. Photographer Andrew Bodrov stitched together images from Curiosity’s navigation cameras to create the panorama. “After seeing some of the stitches of Curiosity’s images at NASA’s website, I decided to stitch the panorama myself,” Bodrov told Universe Today. He uses PTGui panoramic stitching software from New House Internet Services BV (http://www.ptgui.com) to create the 360-degree view of the mountains and sky surrounding the car-sized rover that successfully landed on Mars on August 6th. (via universetoday) View high resolution

moderation:

A 360-Degree ‘Street View’ From Mars

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After seeing all the amazing imagery so far from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, I know everyone wants to go there and take in the visual treats of Gale Crater. With the help of a 360-degree panorama you can virtually explore Curiosity’s landing site; sort of like a Martian version of Google’s Street View.

Take a martian minute to explore the panorama at 360pano.eu.

Photographer Andrew Bodrov stitched together images from Curiosity’s navigation cameras to create the panorama. “After seeing some of the stitches of Curiosity’s images at NASA’s website, I decided to stitch the panorama myself,” Bodrov told Universe Today.

He uses PTGui panoramic stitching software from New House Internet Services BV (http://www.ptgui.com) to create the 360-degree view of the mountains and sky surrounding the car-sized rover that successfully landed on Mars on August 6th.

(Reblogged from crookedindifference)
turnabout: bandh: “We developed all four cameras around a common architecture so the choice of sensor was hedged across all of them. We wanted to be able to capture high frame rates, particularly with the descent camera. We also looked at a 4MP sensor but it would have run around half as fast. And the state of CMOS sensors wasn’t credible in 2004. They’re an interesting option now, but they weren’t then.” (via Why Does The Mars Rover Curiosity Only Have A 2MP Sensor? | Popular Photography) photography + space = !!! View high resolution

turnabout:

bandh:

“We developed all four cameras around a common architecture so the choice of sensor was hedged across all of them. We wanted to be able to capture high frame rates, particularly with the descent camera. We also looked at a 4MP sensor but it would have run around half as fast. And the state of CMOS sensors wasn’t credible in 2004. They’re an interesting option now, but they weren’t then.”

(via Why Does The Mars Rover Curiosity Only Have A 2MP Sensor? | Popular Photography)

photography + space = !!!

(Reblogged from turnabout)
changetheratio: Congratulation to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the successful launch of Mars Curiosity! Huge. You deserve to celebrate. And be celebrated. You’ve made Earth proud.  I also celebrate NASA/JPL for how visible women were as part of this extraordinary event. Several times on the livestream last night people made reference to kids looking at the launch of the Mars Curiosity and seeing possibilities for themselves in STEM - and thanks to a number of prominent women on the team, little girls will see a path to space for themselves too.  There were six members of the JPL team in the control room for the launch. In no particular order, they were: Pauline Hwang, Deputy Integrated Planning & Execution Team Chief Erisa Hines, Attitude Control System Engineer  Ann Devereaux, EDL Flight System Engineer  Kelly Clarke, Deputy Realtime Operations Team Chief/GDS Engineer  Leslie Livesay, Director for the Engineering and Science Directorate  Nagin Cox, Assistant Flight System System Engineering Manager  …and present in rehearsal (unsure what role she had at launch; confirming) Tracey Nielson, Fault Protection System Engineer   NASA commentator/reporter Gay Hill tied it all together as the night wore on.  Also, those delightful @MarsCuriosity tweets are voiced by a trio of ladies, led by NASA’s social media manager Veronica McGregor (who opened the press conference after the launch), with Courtney O’Connor and Stephanie Smith. Still giggling over “GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!” Anyhoo. Not that we’re indifferent to Bobak’s charms - please, we’re totally down - but we wanted to give shout-outs to the incredible ratio-changing people who were part of the MarsCuriosity’s terrific team. We’re sure there are more, but these were who we saw. See, visibility is important. Even from space.  View high resolution

changetheratio:

Congratulation to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the successful launch of Mars Curiosity! Huge. You deserve to celebrate. And be celebrated. You’ve made Earth proud. 

I also celebrate NASA/JPL for how visible women were as part of this extraordinary event. Several times on the livestream last night people made reference to kids looking at the launch of the Mars Curiosity and seeing possibilities for themselves in STEM - and thanks to a number of prominent women on the team, little girls will see a path to space for themselves too. 

There were six members of the JPL team in the control room for the launch. In no particular order, they were:

  • Pauline Hwang, Deputy Integrated Planning & Execution Team Chief
  • Erisa Hines, Attitude Control System Engineer 
  • Ann Devereaux, EDL Flight System Engineer 
  • Kelly Clarke, Deputy Realtime Operations Team Chief/GDS Engineer 
  • Leslie Livesay, Director for the Engineering and Science Directorate 
  • Nagin Cox, Assistant Flight System System Engineering Manager 

…and present in rehearsal (unsure what role she had at launch; confirming)

  • Tracey Nielson, Fault Protection System Engineer  
NASA commentator/reporter Gay Hill tied it all together as the night wore on. 
Also, those delightful @MarsCuriosity tweets are voiced by a trio of ladies, led by NASA’s social media manager Veronica McGregor (who opened the press conference after the launch), with Courtney O’Connor and Stephanie Smith. Still giggling over “GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!”

Anyhoo. Not that we’re indifferent to Bobak’s charms - please, we’re totally down - but we wanted to give shout-outs to the incredible ratio-changing people who were part of the MarsCuriosity’s terrific team. We’re sure there are more, but these were who we saw. See, visibility is important. Even from space. 
(Reblogged from crookedindifference)

Here's how to watch the mars robot landing tonight. Because it's a robot.

(Reblogged from climateadaptation)
npr: Do you think 300-sq feet would be enough for you? — tanya b. wnyc: New York City apartments may get even smaller. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday launched a competition for developers to design a building with micro-units of no more than 300-square feet in Manhattan for the city’s expanding small-household population. More on WNYC News Blog | Brian Lehrer Asks: What’s the Smallest Apartment You’ve Ever Had? Yes, it would be, if it was well designed. Design is especially critical when talking about tiny spaces.

npr:

Do you think 300-sq feet would be enough for you? — tanya b.

wnyc:

New York City apartments may get even smaller. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday launched a competition for developers to design a building with micro-units of no more than 300-square feet in Manhattan for the city’s expanding small-household population.

More on WNYC News Blog | Brian Lehrer Asks: What’s the Smallest Apartment You’ve Ever Had?

Yes, it would be, if it was well designed. Design is especially critical when talking about tiny spaces.

(Reblogged from npr)

newyorker:

Views of the 2012 Venus Transit (the last of our lifetime) were brought to the world in ways never before imagined, via orbiting spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope using the moon as a mirror, International Space Station astronauts, and, of course NASA broadcasting, live, via the web in high definition from ten locations around the world.” Here’s a selection of twelve such photographs from NASA and Flickr users: http://nyr.kr/Lwpn5z

(Reblogged from newyorker)

smithsonianmag:

Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration

The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation.

Photos: NASA

Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.

(Reblogged from npr)
futurejournalismproject: NASA Has a Data Problem, And a Contest to Solve It NASA has about 100 terabytes of information gathered from its various space missions. The data sits in various databases created over the years and is difficult to get to and manipulate. So its Tournament Lab is holding a contest make the data more accessible to both scientists and the public. Via the NASA Tournament Lab: [W]hile rich in depth and breath, the [Planetary Data System] databases have developed in a disparate fashion over the years with different architectures and formats for different scientific needs; thereby making acquisition of data problematic! So, NASA is holding a series of Challenges to generate some simply awesome ideas for mobile or web based applications that will appeal to general users, to search and display compelling facts about the data. Instead of just scientists, our audience will be the millions of school age students, their teachers and parents, game designers and general civilians of the world. We want to deliver this incredible data to users in a way that excites them – and thus, to help them understand the value and potential of this data. Contest prizes are up to $10,000 and you can learn about it here. If you want to jump right into the data, you can do so here. Image: Moscow at Night, captured March 28 by the International Space Station. Via NASA. View high resolution

futurejournalismproject:

NASA Has a Data Problem, And a Contest to Solve It

NASA has about 100 terabytes of information gathered from its various space missions. The data sits in various databases created over the years and is difficult to get to and manipulate.

So its Tournament Lab is holding a contest make the data more accessible to both scientists and the public.

Via the NASA Tournament Lab:

[W]hile rich in depth and breath, the [Planetary Data System] databases have developed in a disparate fashion over the years with different architectures and formats for different scientific needs; thereby making acquisition of data problematic!

So, NASA is holding a series of Challenges to generate some simply awesome ideas for mobile or web based applications that will appeal to general users, to search and display compelling facts about the data. Instead of just scientists, our audience will be the millions of school age students, their teachers and parents, game designers and general civilians of the world. We want to deliver this incredible data to users in a way that excites them – and thus, to help them understand the value and potential of this data.

Contest prizes are up to $10,000 and you can learn about it here. If you want to jump right into the data, you can do so here.

Image: Moscow at Night, captured March 28 by the International Space Station. Via NASA.

(Reblogged from futurejournalismproject)

crookedindifference:

Graphical timeline of the Universe

This more than twenty billion years timeline of our universe shows the best estimates of the occurrence of events since its beginning, up until anticipated events in the near future. Zero of the scale is the present day. A large step on the scale is one billion years, a small step one hundred million years. The past time have a minus sign, e.g. the oldest rock on Earth was formed about four billion years ago and this is marked at -4e+09 years. The “Big Bang” event happened 13.7 billion years ago.

(Reblogged from spytap)

the-star-stuff:

Rock Star Cosmic Pioneers By MeganLee

These awesome prints are available at her shop, meganlee.etsy.com. Check out her blog too, Megan Lee.

(Reblogged from the-star-stuff)