Why only 3 low-res pictures of Titan so far?

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
there appear to be some more pictars:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm

Please edit OP, OPer! Thanks 😉

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
there appear to be some more pictars:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm

Is Nasa playing Pilotwings?

 

[Xenon]

Originally posted by: nCred
Isnt it more or less dark all time there? The sun is so far away.. It would be very hard to take color photos.

They said that its about 1000 times dimmer than full sunlight on Earth, but also 1000 times brighter than full moonlight. Sort of like twilight.

 

[MisterCornell]

I took a class taught by Steve Squyres, the chief investigator of the NASA Mars Rover project.

He said most of the electronics on board space crafts is 10-20 years old. In space there is a lot of radiation and temperature variations. So they need to use technology that they know will work.

I'm throwing that out there for the people complaining about the resolution of the pictures.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Xenon

Originally posted by: nCred
Isnt it more or less dark all time there? The sun is so far away.. It would be very hard to take color photos.

They said that its about 1000 times dimmer than full sunlight on Earth, but also 1000 times brighter than full moonlight. Sort of like twilight.

That doesn't sound too correct. That says that full moonlight on earth is 1 millionth as bright as full sunlight.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
Holy....

Have a look at the m/pixel (Mega Pixel?) ratings on the bottom of the last two low-res pictures.
If they're MP ratings, then that camera is unbelievable...:Q

That's meters per pixel. Each pixel is 10 meters (or whatever the numbers are).

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
That doesn't sound too correct. That says that full moonlight on earth is 1 millionth as bright as full sunlight.

The apparent magniude of the sun is -26.8. The apparent magnitude of the full moon is -12.5 (from here)

You can see from the chart (thereby preventing me from doing logarithms at 3:10am) that a difference in 15 points on the scale is 1,000,000x. The difference in the sun and moon is 14.3.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Yzzim
Why are these first images in black and white? Hard to tell if it's a stone, ice, or ball of yarn.

I could have donated my old Fuji FinePix 1300 1.3MP camera if they would have asked.

Ha. The CCD on that camera is a piece of shyt compared to the stuff these guys are using. These CCDs are much much more sensitive than your average consumer CCD. A 2 MP astronomical grade CCD can cost $5k easily.

The CCD itself is b/w but if they wanted colour images they could just take 3 images with 3 different filters in place.

Exactly. All astronomical grade CCD cameras are BW. The only way to get color is to take 3 images in RGB with color filters.
Even hubble is B&W! :Q
All the beautiful colors you see from the hubble space telescope is all added in with photoshop.

 

[Mickal555]

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: Gibsons
pics

woah nice padge 🙂

Thanks 🙂