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We have used these devices for classical image-data compression in the processing units of the Venus Express Monitoring Camera (VMC) and the Dawn Framing Camera (DawnFC), both now in successful op- eration for several years. For the Solar Orbiter PHI processing unit, we decided to use two...
Charlie Brewer: Maybe I'm an anachronism, but I like to figure it out that way and it's like, "Well, I need to make 12 wire frames and so I need a couple of days to do that," or so on. The second way I use it is for site maps and for that you can really add a lot ...
An image of Venus captured by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Venus is always brilliant and shining with a steady, silvery light. Evenings in the western sky at dusk from Jan. 1 to Aug. 4. Mornings in the eastern sky at dawn from Aug. 22 to Dec. ...
Of course, you can bring your phone with you on the day of observation. If you’re curious to know what a particular star in the sky is, you can point your phone in that direction using the GPS function. Just remember to lower the luminosity of your phone and to use the night mode...
A convenient way to crop a picture is to use the zoom. Some cameras have an optical zoom, some a digital zoom, and some have both. Both zooms make the target seem closer, but they do so in very different ways. Where possible, turn off the digital zoom. It is not increasing the amo...
Aloy can use a quick travel system that enables her to instantly teleport to every campfire she discovers (its icon on the world map must be green). However, the system has one serious limitation - a jump to selected area consumes the fast travel packs. You can use all of them very qu...
An artist's interpretation of NASA's LCROSS spacecraft observing the first impact of its rocket booster's upper stage before heading in for its' own crash into the Moon's South Pole.(Image credit: NASA.) Get ready for a uniquecosmic collision! Early this coming Friday morning (Oct. 9)...
For Mercury and Venus, this is the period during which the planet is well seen in either the morning sky or the evening sky. For Mars and beyond, an apparition is measured from the time the planet becomes visible in the dawn sky (rising shortly before the Sun) to the time it ...
No true stargazer will fail to become familiar with the constellations, and fortunate is he whose introduction to the skies comes to him through nature's eyes alone and not through any telescope. So few of those who use the eyepiece first ever get to really know the stars." So, as ...