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Spirit's first Color pic in!

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bernse

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Looks fantastic!

NASA deserves a pat on the back for having the server as good as it is. The full pic is a 40MB TIFF and I was able to pull it in at over 200K/sec... considering that hundreds (if not thousands) of people around the world are doing the same thing thats pretty impressive bandwidth on that server!

See it HERE
 
40 MB for a picture?! Whoa... Let's see, how large can I blow that up and print it out at photograph quality? Can anyone recommend software for cutting a big picture into little pieces that print out 8x10 so I can tape all the pieces together and make a giant poster?
 
I just noticed they took the 40MB TIFF off the webpage. They probably saw the $hit-kicking their servers were taking and had to start easing it off!
🙂
 
I'm getting 4.76 kB/s
Their servers may have been able to handle world-wide traffic, but I don't think they were prepared for the AT effect 😉
 
Originally posted by: bernse
I just noticed they took the 40MB TIFF off the webpage. They probably saw the $hit-kicking their servers were taking and had to start easing it off!
🙂
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They moved them... the link to the 40MB file is buried under a couple of links.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/?IDNumber=pia04995


Edit: I only found it because my download was "completed" at 2MB... but the file wouldn't open, so I figured they just stopped everything in its tracks and moved the original file. And, they did.
 
Originally posted by: dman
It's just a big red sandy surfact w/ lots of rocks... boring. 🙂
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Yeah they're not even on Mars... they're in the middle of an Arizona desert with an overpriced toy. 😉

 
Originally posted by: jjsole
wow - not.
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:disgust: That's the highest resolution picture EVER taken someplace other than on earth.... And, within hours, it's available for anyone with a computer. If you go back just 40 years, we hadn't even made it to the moon. Of course, advances in neuroscience haven't made it possible for everyone to fathom how great an accomplishment this is for mankind... your mind included? 😛
 
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