78000 Pics From Mars Mission

DerOle writes "Here http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ are about 78.000 pics from Mars, shoot by the Mars Global Surveyor. There are even more pics to come, about 163 gigs of uncompressed data. From the page : MOC is operated daily at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). MOC consists of three cameras: A narrow angle system that provides grayscale high resolution views of the planet's surface (typically, 1.5 to 12 meters/pixel), and red and blue wide angle cameras that provide daily global weather monitoring, context images to determine where the narrow angle views were actually acquired, and regional coverage to monitor variable surface features such as polar frost and wind streaks. Most of the high resolution images are obtained by careful planning and inspection of predicted MGS orbits by Mars scientists working at and/or visiting MSSS. The company is also responsible for archiving the data once they are received on Earth."

Comments

Really!?

[n-baxley]

Add that to the 78000 that were available earlier and that makes 156,000. You've really got to hand it to those NASA guys. They take a lot of pictures.

Precision

[andy@petdance.com]

78.000 pics from Mars

I'm glad that they make sure that they have exactly 78 pictures, and that they measure it out to three places past the decimal.

Re:Precision

[Tumbleweed]

Well, you know, after that whole standard-metric conversion fiasco, they're pretty paranoid about measurements at NASA.

DerOle might be german.

[rebelcool]

In germany (and probably other european nations), a period is used instead of a comma, and a comma is used for decimal notation.