How Spirit Takes Pictures

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 15, 2004 @10:31AM from the do-not-shake-it-like-a-polaroid dept.

Some Clown writes "MSNBC has a great article on the details of the camera system on the Mars Rover titled How Sprit makes great photos. Apparently the high resolution images are all done with a 1-megapixel camera. All the money is in the CCD and Lens. The hardcore digital photographers in the crowd will probably find the article to be only a teaser on the technical specs, but the rest of us in the unwashed masses should find it interesting."

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Re:Original by Some+Clown · 2004-01-15 10:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Sorry 'bout that. I happened to see the MSNBC one first and had already added that link. Does it really matter though?

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Re:Original by wideBlueSkies · 2004-01-15 10:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dude,

That has to be the greatest sig ever! I'm grinning even as I type this. :)

wbs.

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Re:Amazing by Mod+Me+God · 2004-01-15 10:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

ok... no personal offense and totally OT, but why do you use such piece-of-shit line breaks???

Courier (or similar) I can face, but whay is the point of splitting a line over several lines. Kinda like Outlook's treatment of plain text emails (they HAVE to be split somewhere 72 and 112 chars) which really pisses me off (plain text emails on tunderbird on Windows need no such breaks).

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Re:Original by Gherald · 2004-01-15 11:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Thanks =)

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Re:I was honestly surprised. by SirDaShadow · 2004-01-15 12:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know it is a lossless format, so it obviously isn't JPEG.

I don't understand why Jpeg 2000, which has a lossless option (which beats the crap out of TIFF) is not popular. Can anyone please tell me why? The only widespread app using it is the Yahoo Messenger Webcam (about 1-2 kbyte/s normal mode and 10-15kbyte/s "super" mode)
Re:Well ya by Jerf · 2004-01-15 16:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

'When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.'

Do not argue with the folks who took "Semantics" and "Linguistics" from abstract, useless philosophy and made a profession of turning it into running code on real machines.

Annoy us futher and we'll convince you that what you call a "kilobyte" is actually named Terrence the Twenty Third, who is called The Man of 10907481356194159294629842447337828624482641619962 32692431832786189721331849119295216264234525201987 22395729179615702527310987082017718406361097976507 75547990789062988421929895386098252280482051596968 51613591638196771886542609324560121290553901886301 01790025253579991720001007960002653583680090529780 58809523505016301954756539110053123645600148474260 35293551245843928918752768696279344088055617515694 34994540667782514081490061610592025643850457801332 64935658360472424073824428122451315177575191648992 26365743722432277368075027627883045206501792761700 94569916849725787968385173704999690096112051565505 01155612714914925153421057489666295470327863215057 30828430221664970324396138635251626409516168005427 62343599630892169144618118740639531066540488573943 48328774281674074953709935118687563599703901170218 23616749458620969857006263612082706715408157066575 13728102702231092756491027675916052087830463241104 93645687549209673229824591847634273837902724484380 18526977764941072715611580434690827459339991961414 24274141059911742606055648376375631452761136265862 83833686211579936380208785376755453367899156942344 33955666315070087213535470255670312004130725495834 50835743965382893607708097855057891296790735278005 49356215610907958451729541159729274798775277385600 08204118558930004777748727761853813510493840581861 59865221160596030835640594182118971403786872621948 14987276036536162988561748224130334854387853240247 51419417183012281078209729303537372804574372095228 70362277636394529086980625842235514850757103961938 74496298668081887696628157781530793931790931436483 40761738581819563002994422790754955061288818308430 07964869323217915876591803556521615711540299212027 61556078731079374774668415283629877086994501520312 31862594203085693838944657061346236704234026821102 95895495119708707654618662279629453645162075650935 10189060237738215395327762086769785897319663303088 93304665169436185078350641568336944530051437491311 29883436726523859540490427345592872394952522718461 74043678547546104743770197680255766058810380772707 07717942221977090385438585844095492116099852538903 97465570394397308609093059696336076752996493841459 81857059637545614973558278136238332889063090042880 17321424808663962671333528009232758350873059614118 72378142210146019861574738685509689608918918044133 95585248228675411132126387936755676503403629700319 30023397828465318547238244232028015189689660418822 97600081543761065225427016359565087543385114712321 42272666054035817814690908065764689505876619971865 05665475715792896 Distinct States, which means About One Page, but all it is is a slithy jabberwock, and by then you'll be so confused you'd believe anything just to shut us