Pictures of Pluto
#1
Pictures of Pluto
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#2
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,040
Re: Pictures of Pluto
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#3
Re: Pictures of Pluto
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Encounter is in less than a week on the 14th July. It will take a while to send back all the data it gathers, but I'd expect to see some pics much sooner than that, like within a week.
- It does it with a transmitter, error correction codes, and the deep space network - and I think the data rate might be lower than that.
- It's powered by a nuclear power source (RTG). The reason it works at all is because of that, and the reason Philae has been dormant for so long is after the Challenger explosion people got twitchy about such launches.
- You don't need a million spacecraft, you just need ones that have long lifespans and different ways of getting to the planets (eg solar sails, ion propulsion, VASIMR). However nobody is putting big money into space, they are more concentrated on giving it to bankers.
This is the last time you are likely to be part of seeing a planet close up, for the first time.
Last edited by GarryP; Jul 9th 2015 at 9:48 am.
#4
#5
Re: Pictures of Pluto
In order:
This is the last time you are likely to be part of seeing a planet close up, for the first time.
- Encounter is in less than a week on the 14th July. It will take a while to send back all the data it gathers, but I'd expect to see some pics much sooner than that, like within a week.
- It does it with a transmitter, error correction codes, and the deep space network - and I think the data rate might be lower than that.
- It's powered by a nuclear power source (RTG). The reason it works at all is because of that, and the reason Philae has been dormant for so long is after the Challenger explosion people got twitchy about such launches.
- You don't need a million spacecraft, you just need ones that have long lifespans and different ways of getting to the planets (eg solar sails, ion propulsion, VASIMR). However nobody is putting big money into space, they are more concentrated on giving it to bankers.
This is the last time you are likely to be part of seeing a planet close up, for the first time.
Next big thing, Fibre to the Planet.
#7
Re: Pictures of Pluto
You know there is an Interplanetary Internet, don't you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
#9
Re: Pictures of Pluto
Only really need 3-4 cameras to pull out bullet time type effects today.
You know there is an Interplanetary Internet, don't you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
You know there is an Interplanetary Internet, don't you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
To bullet time the orbit of a planet whilst capturing the cloud stillness, it would take more than 3 or 4 cameras I would think. No point in stitching pictures from different times when you can send up millions of go pros.
#11
Joined on April fools day
Joined: Apr 2012
Location: 30 miles from a decent grocery store.
Posts: 10,642
#12
Re: Pictures of Pluto
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.
Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
It uses plutonium for power and deep space radio comms is pretty straightforward
Pity it can't launch a probe to impact pluto
#13
Re: Pictures of Pluto
Of course I know about it, I'm always skyping my cousins on the other planets.
To bullet time the orbit of a planet whilst capturing the cloud stillness, it would take more than 3 or 4 cameras I would think. No point in stitching pictures from different times when you can send up millions of go pros.
To bullet time the orbit of a planet whilst capturing the cloud stillness, it would take more than 3 or 4 cameras I would think. No point in stitching pictures from different times when you can send up millions of go pros.
Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.
You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
#14
Re: Pictures of Pluto
3D feature extraction, object reconstruction, and texturing. All you need is enough simultaneous images to get good coverage. Particularly easy for nice regular, round objects like planets (eg each 90 or 120 deg), most mo-cap studios use more because of concave shapes and occultation. How do you think they do satellite weather images?
Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.
You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.
You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
But like I say, a massive waste of money for something less important than royal commissions into unions.
#15
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,040
Re: Pictures of Pluto
3D feature extraction, object reconstruction, and texturing. All you need is enough simultaneous images to get good coverage. Particularly easy for nice regular, round objects like planets (eg each 90 or 120 deg), most mo-cap studios use more because of concave shapes and occultation. How do you think they do satellite weather images?
Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.
You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.
You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
Pix4D, Acute3D among others.
Was playing with Acute3D last week. 3D model was very impressive.