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Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs
astroengine writes India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) got straight to work as it closed in on Martian orbit on Tuesday — it began taking photographs of the Red Planet and its atmosphere and surface as it slowed down to reach its ultimate destination. After a two day wait, those first images are slowly trickling onto the Internet.
Welcome to the steeplechase. Room for everyone, hats off.
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Surprisingly, it's no longer smiling. It is angry for its wrath has been awoken.
Frankly, those are some of the best visualizations I've ever seen of altitude data on Mars. It makes some of the geologic features very, very clear, compared to other data visualizations that try to do actual color or altitude color.
Are you talking about most of those false color images on that page? If so, they are actually not from this mission. Most of them (probably all except the first one) are from MRO's HiRISE camera.
we don't need no stinkin' Images!
and yet, still more interesting than anything you post.
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What a shit camera, that doesn't look even remotely like Mars.
The best photo is not of Mars...but the women workers of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) handling the Mars mission celebrating.
BBC has a good report and the photo...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-29357472
As a tweeter asks..when was the last time we saw women scientists celebrating a space mission?
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Anyone who doesn't find space exploration utterly wondrous, awesome and interesting is a simpleton. You people will be culled from the genetic base soon enough and due purely to your own idiocy.
The pictures are best viewed while chanting :
Kali Ma Shakti de! Kali Ma Shakti de!
And the high priest of the Red Planet of Doom may be seen.
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Knowing how sneeky and cheeky, manipulative, restrictive, and corrupt the whole region is, I don't believe anything that comes out of it.
No, they are best viewed wearing a pair of Chromadepth glasses.
They have finally left the reservation!
Not saying it's aliens but.....
Slashdot commenters have gone downhill. Congrats to ISRO, Indians, and humanity as a whole. Let's not let the bigots hold us down.
Are you sure those pictures aren't just the streets of Delhi? It's pretty dusty there.
An article with exactly one image from India's mission, and a slide show of false color images from NASA that most slashdotters think were from MOM.
I expected at least a few more images hinted at by the summary. It will be interesting if they can capture some of the more controversial spots to provide independent confirmation of what NASA has been telling conspiracy buffs for the past few years.
I wasn't aware that Darwin Award winners were counted as part of genocide.
Go back to your magic cave, Neanderthal.
And my respects to the team in India. Nice work!
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
I am genuinely glad more and more space exploration is happening outside of just Nasa and the US.
The more people with different perspectives and regimes we get out there the more likely the information we get back will actually be accurate :)
As soon as you go to your magic vacuum, Space Nutter.
Space seems to be a sphere about 30 billion light years across... Can you explain how sending a camera 0.0001 light years away is "exploration"?
When we do, we'll be sure to leave any remaining religious nutjobs behind so you can finish killing each other off with your sticks and stones.
Oh and it's a bit ironic that you should be using a computer developed from space technology by the very people you claim are "nutters".
exploration
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1. an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
2. the investigation of unknown regions.
It looks like dropping out of school at the third grade didn't work out so well for you.
Frankly, those are some of the best visualizations I've ever seen of altitude data on Mars. It makes some of the geologic features very, very clear, compared to other data visualizations that try to do actual color or altitude color.
Are you talking about most of those false color images on that page? If so, they are actually not from this mission. Most of them (probably all except the first one) are from MRO's HiRISE camera.
WOW, another Indian first, altitude info from a single image from 7,000km away.
Even though the Indian Mission Control have no indoor toilets, you got to tip your hat to those Indians getting it done where it counts.
It is nice to hear they made it and all that but couldn't they stretch the budget by a couple of thousand more dollars to build a decent camera? Don't blame the bandwidth either they can always send a down sampled version first and it would still look sharper.
Perhaps it never occurred to them that their compression routines could have been trained on all the images other missions have sent back to ensure the most common image components are represented by the smallest symbols (to put it abstractly)?
To the Indian government though, I suggest the next project be here on planet earth:
That is, to make public toilets as easily available as every other space power.
1) China is a space power. Not exactly know for the quality & quantity of rural public toilets.
2) If everyone waited to solve every domestic issue before becoming a space power, noone would have developed rockets yet. I think you would be astonished by the poverty that existed in Appalachia or other rural isolated areas in the US when their space program started. Ditto for Europe (portugal / greece) and Russia (almost everywhere).
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I notice that the images have either been coloured or are very blurred.
Kinda make me think that the satellite might be spinning or something.
I can't wait to get some of these contour images through a terrain mapper and recoloured. Awesome job, India. :D
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
You don't get it. This is not a scientific achievement, but an engineering one.
It cost a few cents per Indian - I think they can afford that. Congratulations India!
what a waste of time and money. the planet is already photographed in higher detail. do something new or dont do anything
India arguably needs to be a tech powerhouse more than the US does. It faces tougher problems with fewer resources; it has to do more with less. It already has a huge middle class, but it needs to grow that middle class to bring capital in for the even huger underdeveloped portions of its society.
I wish them well. Nations becoming more technologically capable is not a zero sum game.
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You are completely clueless regarding Chinese and Indian toilet facilities
If each moron is charged $1 for an idiotic offtopic comment which has no wisdom and no humor what so ever ... retards
wow, this thread went south quickly. space exploration is important and interesting to most intelligent people whether they are religious or not. the fact that india accomplished this feat using less money than other space programs is a tribute to their ingenuity and technical abilities. even if all they get is a couple of pictures of mars, that is way better than many countries on a first attempt. i wish them luck (and skill) for this and future endeavors.
wow, this thread went south quickly. space exploration is important and interesting to most intelligent people whether they are religious or not. the fact that india accomplished this feat using less money than other space programs is a tribute to their ingenuity and technical abilities. even if all they get is a couple of pictures of mars, that is way better than many countries on a first attempt. i wish them luck (and skill) for this and future endeavors.
So does Indian Mars look anything like American Mars?
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In a same way as sending a ship across the ocean to see what's on the other side. Or sending a dude to actually climb the mountain you have seen your whole life. You can see it, but still actually going closer to hava a look is exploring. You can even explore place where others have ben before.
Your anger is amusing. Feel free to continue, we can do with more laughter.
Where are the pictures?
This is good stuff, as the NASA mission that just arrived at Mars lacked any sort of camera instruments. Nothing but a UV detector. Wow. So we won't get any Mars photos back from this one. I suppose we sort of know what Mars looks like but still... India sent back pictures. Not bad, India. Congrats! Welcome to Mars!
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They want their Mariner 9 pictures back. How unimpressive.
> You people will be culled from the genetic base soon enough and due purely to your own idiocy.
Would that it were true.
The reality is that the loon has probably already reproduced himself half a dozen times.
You know, because it's his *god given right* to do so.
I like the name MOM but I would prefer the name MILF
As it is India's Mars Orbiter Mission ... it should be called iMOM
Is that Curiosity? I can't tell if it's waving..or giving the finger?
You must be popular at family reunions.
BTW: Keep checking out your mom. You'll come around, trust me.
+1 if I had mod points.
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