On Sep 6, 2008, at 12:54 PM, OrionWorks wrote:
Hi Horace, From Horace,It takes a while to register these three photos for toggling, but the movement of some of this stuff over this 5 minute period is extraordinary because it is gradual across the three frames, and is not due to the change of focus that occurs between the 3 frames. All the frames were illuminated in green. http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=29352&cID=274 http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=29361&cID=274 http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=29376&cID=274 Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/I'm puzzled. I've toggled through these three photos numerous times, and what I personally see is NASA attempting to get better more focused images of the martian granules. Any "movement" I perceive is a deliberate but gradual change in focal length from the lander's camera, that along with a slight change in the angle of the camera. The martian granules themselves, however, do not appear to have moved and/or changed, insofar as I can see. Can you clarify? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Yes. Consider just the very center of the 2nd two photos, 29361 and 29376 above (the first photo, 29352 is pretty far out of focus). There is a bunch of stuff that moves to the left and also rotates. This is *not* due to a change of focus, because background stuff gets exposed and and some covered up by the motion. Following are two snippets that can be played as a slideshow to get a feel for the motion and what the object looks like:
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Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/