June 13, 2004
high resolution phoebe
And finally, the good pictures are starting to come in. Head over to the Cassini site and see for yourself. Great stuff!
To jump directly to the images, here are some links:
The Face of Phoebe
Phoebe's Surprise
Crater Close-up on Phoebe
update: The caption for "The Face of Phoebe" says "No enhancement was performed on this image" but it's pretty clear to me that they edited at least four spots in the area around Phoebe. What do you suppose they were airbrushing (poorly, I might add) out of the picture? Background stars or other moons? Dust on the camera lense? Also, do you think the airbrush was intentionally obvious? If so, why not note that in the caption?
I suck at CSS. Why can't I get this left-floated image to stay within the space for the post without this extra clear left paragraph?
Posted by asa at June 13, 2004 02:32 PMAmazing pictures indeed.
Perhaps they removed image artifacts (data lost in transmission)?
I think it is pretty obvious that they airbrushed out the aliens.
Posted by: RabidPenguin on June 13, 2004 03:38 PMErm... Am I the only one having some sort of big rendering bug with Firefox 0.9 RC on the blog right now?
Posted by: Markus Lindström on June 13, 2004 03:45 PMAn element with a float style declaration applied (like your <img>) will normally overhang the bottom of its container (like your <p>) as the container does not expand to encompass the element, as explained recently in some detail at this article at Position is Everything on how to clear without markup. Plus, there's a misplaced closing tag to a <p> element.
Posted by: Constantine Hannaher on June 13, 2004 06:14 PMi usually use a <br style="clear: left;" /> (or <br class="clearleft" />, whatever). probably ranks fairly low in the Halls of Clear Coding Practice, but it works for me.
Posted by: gemma on June 14, 2004 12:15 AMJust put a {clear: both} in your declaration for div.posted2 so that all floats in all posts will stay within the area.
Posted by: Rory Parle on June 14, 2004 05:30 AMI'm not seeing the green airbrushing on the source image you link to.
Posted by: Patrick O'Leary on June 14, 2004 09:46 AMThanks for the clear suggestions. I was using an extra paragraph with clear left and trying to figure out how to avoid some meaningless tag with that style. I've added Rory's suggestion, putting the clear on the "posted" line and that seems like a nice solution.
Patrick, they're not green in the original, they're near-black, not quite the same black as the space around the moon.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on June 14, 2004 10:56 AMQuick, quick! More amazing imagery of Phoebe!
(http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgibin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/small-moons/images/PIA06075.jpg&type=image)
Posted by: alfons on June 14, 2004 02:30 PMSlightly off topic but check out the exchange between Bruce Moornow (Astrobio Mag) and Oliver Morton (Mainly Martian) about tomorrows MER Conference Mainly Martian
Posted by: helvick on June 14, 2004 02:40 PM|about tomorrows MER Conference
Look at this Spirit's pancam image:
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/159/2P140478538EFF6830P2597L5M1.HTML
Alfons, yeah, I saw that yesterday in some sub-frame Pancam images
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit_p158.html
specifically: http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/158/2P140388222ESF6800P2594L4M1.JPG
It looked interesting then. The full frames are even more interesting.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on June 14, 2004 03:32 PMGet it up boy! She will be happy!
Posted by: Cialis on July 7, 2004 11:06 AM