Simple. You forget the camera resolution... with a surface resolution of only a metre or two, the entire lander would only take up one or two pixels at most, it may even be sub-pixel!
How do you look for something that small? You don't. What the NIMA guys are almost certainly doing is looking for the shadow of the lander! At certain lighting angles, the lander would cast a shadow 10s or even hundreds of metres across the surface.
NIMA looks for shadows, and estimates the size of the objects from the lighting angle. How do they tell if it's the lander and not a boulder, or if the lander is upright?
Come back later (like the scheduled observations in october?) when the lighting is at different angles, and take more pictures. From the way the shadow changes, you can guess the shape of the object, and if it's on the surface or a metre above it on legs.
The NIMA guys ovbiously have narrowed it down to a few likely candidates, and are waiting for more images.
>Actually, I kinda like the idea of 500M of rewritable storage in the palm of my hand, but not at the cost of the DRM garbage you wanna cripple it with.
Umm, except it isn't rewritable. It's recordable, meaning WORM.:(
Amazing how many people havn't noticed that, tho it is hidden on the webpage a bit.
CD-R is popular mind you, tho not at $5/disk for 500MB.
Interesting to read comments about this being 3 years old. Odd that it had USB at that time?
I also followed some links and saw it priced at 350 pounds, hardly low cost I would think, what's a 810 board and a cheap celeron cost today? Less than that, and it would perform better.
If these guys produced a version with Intel's forthcomming StrongARM2 at 600MHz or so (sorry, can't seem to find the press releases) might be more attractive.
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In the original script, and when we shot it, Riker plays the hell out of the trombone during the wedding sequence, while Data sings "Blue Skies."
Oooh, will that be an extra on the special edition DVD?
For some reason VoodooExtreme posts a link to a BBC article dated March 12th, this is not news!
Simple. You forget the camera resolution... with a surface resolution of only a metre or two, the entire lander would only take up one or two pixels at most, it may even be sub-pixel!
How do you look for something that small? You don't. What the NIMA guys are almost certainly doing is looking for the shadow of the lander! At certain lighting angles, the lander would cast a shadow 10s or even hundreds of metres across the surface.
NIMA looks for shadows, and estimates the size of the objects from the lighting angle. How do they tell if it's the lander and not a boulder, or if the lander is upright?
Come back later (like the scheduled observations in october?) when the lighting is at different angles, and take more pictures. From the way the shadow changes, you can guess the shape of the object, and if it's on the surface or a metre above it on legs.
The NIMA guys ovbiously have narrowed it down to a few likely candidates, and are waiting for more images.
>Actually, I kinda like the idea of 500M of rewritable storage in the palm of my hand, but not at the cost of the DRM garbage you wanna cripple it with.
:(
Umm, except it isn't rewritable. It's recordable, meaning WORM.
Amazing how many people havn't noticed that, tho it is hidden on the webpage a bit.
CD-R is popular mind you, tho not at $5/disk for 500MB.
Interesting to read comments about this being 3 years old. Odd that it had USB at that time?
I also followed some links and saw it priced at 350 pounds, hardly low cost I would think, what's a 810 board and a cheap celeron cost today? Less than that, and it would perform better.
If these guys produced a version with Intel's forthcomming StrongARM2 at 600MHz or so (sorry, can't seem to find the press releases) might be more attractive.