NASA’s rovers and landers have been taking spectacular photos of the Martian landscape, including panoramas stitched together from dozens of individual frames. These sweeping Mars-scapes are some of the most striking space images ever.
The images show everything from rocket launches and air shows to the Curiosity rover sitting on a tiny Mars. Many of the photos include something interesting that make them slightly different from ordinary ‘little planet’ photos you’ll come across: Here’s an out-of-this-world image of Ma...
MARS (Planet)HYPERSPECTRAL imaging systemsSPECTRAL imagingMULTISPECTRAL imagingPLANETARY surfacesREMOTE sensingWe propose to replace traditional spectral index methods by unsupervised spectral unmixing methods for the exploration of large datasets of planetary hyperspectral images. The main goal of this article ...
For the real part of the refractive index, we use values from Warren and Brandt79. For martian dust, we incorporate the spectral absorption properties derived by Wolff et al. 80. Optical properties of snow, firn, and glacier ice mixtures with dust are computed using the method of Khuller ...
Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems SAG: Science Advisory Group SC Sim: Spacecraft Simulator SDC: Science Data Center SOS: Small Observation Sequence Sp. SOS: Special Small Observation Sequence SPICE: Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-matrix, Events SRR: System Requirements Revie...
THEMIS passed 60,000 orbits of the Red Planet this past summer. It is carried on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, the longest-operating spacecraft from any nation at Mars. Since arriving there, the ASU camera has taken nearly 400,000 images. The camera - which operates in five visual and ni...
3) I am also now providing the bump-map both in a standard grey-scale, and also in the new RGB normal map format. Rendering the planet with the normal map instead of the old bump map reveals dramatically realistic shading and surface detail. Finally, these maps are offered in higher reso...
NASA confirmed to Snopes that the image was real, but it depicted a rather mundane object. Read More Is This Car Really in Space? Written by: Dan Evon Feb. 7, 2018A series of images showing a Tesla Roadster looking down on earth from space are real. ...
Astronomers said the image of the face on the red planet was a wholly incidental trick of nature. The face, however, was oriented on the Martian meridian, but it was considered incidental too. Specialists from the Boston-based Analytic Sciences created a 3-D image of the above-mentioned stru...
Using these bands of satellites, we’ve been able to track changes in the surface of the planet. We’ve been able to see how gullies have grown out of the sides of craters. In images now spanning over five years, we can look (in high resolution) at one place time after time after ...