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Drei Wochen später zeigte sich die Natur deutlich verändert. Alle Grüntöne waren durch die Farben des Herbst ersetzt worden und auch der EC 194 nach Zürich HB war wieder standarmäßig gerieht mit 218 452-1 und 218 401-8 an der Spitze soie dem Panoramawagen im hinteren Drittel des Zuges.
Within three weeks all green was gone and thus replaced by autumn colours. Additionally EC 194 to Zurich HB consisted of both two class 218 locomotives and a dome car in the last third of the train.
INDIEN , "Fatehpur Sikri"
Die frühere Hauptstadt des Mogulreiches unter Großmogul Akbar (1542–1605) wurde zwischen 1569 und 1574 erbaut. 1571 zog Akbar mit seinem Hofstaat hierher, bereits 1585 verlegte er den Hof aber nach Lahore, von wo aus er seine Feldzüge nach Nordwesten besser leiten konnte. Zudem war die Wasserversorgung der Stadt vermutlich unzureichend. Er festigte als hervorragender Diplomat und Militärstratege seine neu gewonnenen Gebiete durch eine Politik religiöser Toleranz im Dialog mit Vertretern der wichtigsten Glaubensrichtungen.
Akbar heiratete als erster Mogul-Herrscher eine Hindu, eine Rajputen-Prinzessin aus Amber und schaffte die den Nicht-Muslimen auferlegten Sondersteuern ab. Indem er, oft durch Eheschließungen, die Loyalität lokaler Fürsten gewann, gelang es ihm, ein effizientes Steuersystem einzuführen, das es ihm schließlich ermöglichte, Fatehpur Sikri bauen zu lassen.
Trotz seiner zahlreichen Frauen hatte er lange Zeit keine Erben, so dass er schwer beeindruckt war, als ihm der in Sikri lebende Scheich Selim drei Söhne prophezeite und die Prophezeiung (unter der Aufsicht des Scheichs, nicht im Harem) auch eintraf. Ihm zu Ehren wurde Fatehpur Sikri erbaut.
Part 18
There is a small tarn that sits along the cross country route from here into the Miter Basin. It is nestled high up along the rim of the basin and I very much wanted to photograph it at sunset, so with about 3 and a half hours of daylight left I told Hester of my plan and he decided to join me. The altitude was no longer bothering him and he was feeling much better.
We made our way north, uphill through the forest until we broke though the other side and the terrain turned to sandy, boulder strewn mountainside with cliffs rising to the east. We crossed the sandy slopes which then turned to slabs and a maze of ledges. Several times we came to a drop off and had to turn around and look for another way, but we eventually came to a spot where the view opened and below and before us lay the sparkling blue tarn embraced by green swaying grass. Beyond that lay the Miter Basin and the peaks that held it. (Joe Devel Peak 13327, Mt Pickering 13474, Mt LeConte 13960, Mt Mallory 13845, The Miter 12770, and farther off Mt McAdie 13799) From here we dropped down until we stood within the grasses that grew around the tarn.
We explored the area, enjoying the view and taking pictures. Then we both sat down in the shade of boulders, along a creek that flowed from the tarn and relaxed listening to the gentle sound of water tumbling over rocks.
“I can listen to this all day long.” said Hester.
I agreed with him, “So can I.”
…
After a short nap the shadows had grown longer, and the peaks glowed a little warmer. Sunset was now not far off. Hester stood on the southern shore looking north and I stood on the western shore looking east. I was wanting to get Mt. Corcoran and the Iridescent Spires rising over the tarn in the alpine glow, but I was disappointing with that so I rushed around trying to find a better composition, but I struggled to find a good one.
Then Hester called out, almost reading my mind, “Check out the view from this side!”
I made my way over to him and stood next to him on a large white granite boulder. The view from here was perfect, absolutely beautiful, and in my opinion the best photo of the entire trip. After getting the shot that I wanted I focused on photographing the surrounding area. Once I got all the shots I could I took some time to just enjoy the view.
Before the last rays of light faded, I don't remember who said it, but one of us suggested we start heading back to camp before it got too dark and the other agreed. When we reach the lake and our campsite there was still a nice orange, pink and purple glow to the west, a thin sliver of an infant moon hanging over the shadowy trees and a few bats gliding across the surface of the lake in the fading twilight.
Weisse Elefanten gelten in buddhistischen Ländern als heilig, versprechen Glück und Wohlergehen. Doch die Art und Weise, wie sie gehalten werden, könnte widersprüchlicher nicht sein.Es läge nahe, dass die Tiere deshalb besonders verwöhnt werden. Doch ein Besuch bei Burmas weissen Elefanten entlarvt das Gegenteil.
Sechs der insgesamt neun weissen Elefanten, die in Burma in Gefangenschaft sind, vegetieren hier im Elefantenhaus in der Hauptstadt Nay Pyi Taw vor sich hin. Sie fristen ihr Leben auf ein paar Quadratmetern.
Ein Taxifahrer erklärt, die gefesselten Tiere seien ein Symbol für die Macht der Militärs. Es sei also alles unter Kontrolle.
Tatsächlich bestätigt ein prominenter burmesischer Elefantenexperte, der Angst hat, namentlich genannt zu werden: Höchste Armeegeneräle und ihre Entourage besuchten die weissen Elefanten in der Hauptstadt Nay Pyi Taw regelmässig.
Auch einer der beiden Vizepräsidenten des Landes gehöre zu den wöchentlichen Besuchern. Sie alle glaubten, die Tiere würden Glück bringen und die Macht erhalten.
White elephants are considered sacred in Buddhist countries and promise happiness and well-being. But the way in which they are kept couldn't be more contradictory, and it suggests that this is why the animals are particularly spoiled. But a visit to Burma's white elephants reveals the opposite.
Six of the nine white elephants that are in captivity in Burma are vegetating here in the elephant house in the capital Nay Pyi Taw. They eke out their lives on a few square meters.
A taxi driver explains that the tied animals are a symbol of the power of the military. So everything is under control.
In fact, a prominent Burmese elephant expert, who is afraid of being named, confirms that the highest army generals and their entourage visited the white elephants in the capital Nay Pyi Taw regularly.
One of the country's two vice presidents is also one of the weekly visitors. They all believed the animals would bring good luck and maintain power.
Beskrivelse / Description: Fra "Belgica"-ekspedisjonen
Dato / Date: 1897-1899
Sted / Place: Antarktis / Antarctica
Fotograf / Photographer: Frederick A. Cook (1865-1940)
Utgiver / Publisher: Keystone View Co.
Digital kopi av original / Digital copy of original: sv/hv glasspositiv / glass slide
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: blds_07951_b
With some decent weather, I took the camera and went out to the Rockaway River in Jefferson Township, New Jersey. These are both 5 shot stitched photos cropped to a 16x9 format. There is still some ice on the water, but most of has melted with the mild temperatures.
Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation préalable.
L'original "Schienenpflegewagen" (véhicule de soins des rails) 295 est vraiment haut sur pattes!
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LSL Class 37 37688 -'Great Rocks' was running through Leamington Spa with the 11.10 Eastleigh Arlington to Crewe ECS move (5Z44) on May 4th 2022. The two-coach consist was formed of BR Mk.I FK 13327 and Midland Pullman HST trailer car M41169, both vehicles being returned to Crewe following attention at Eastleigh.
This sign is a sign of Bio Rex.Its location is in Helsinki,Finland and it is oldest cinema in Helsinki.More info in English :
20211016_135246_SM-A315G-4.6 Allegheny Midland GE GEVO ES44AC 4461 (289/365)
A N scale Fox Valley GE GEVO ES44AC in the fictitious (and modern) Allegheny Midland paint scheme on an N scale display layout at the Ascot Community Centre, the venue that my camera club meets most weeks. The Allegheny Midland was the model railroad of Tony Koester, one time editor of Railroad Model Craftsman, and now editor of Kalmbach's (Model Railroader mag) annual layout planning book. I met Tony when he came to New Zealand in April 2000, but he no longer models the Allegheny Midland, and definitely not the modern era. Now he models the Nickel Plate in the late steam/early diesel era.
The owner of this layout had no idea that this loco was in a fictitious paint scheme, thinking it was a real railroad.
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Temsa Maraton realiza servicio de refuerzo para ALSA en la linea Madrid-Alicante (VAC-055 de Enatcar)
Alicante, Calle de Santos Fuertes Fernández
Temsa Maraton de TAC Mobility-Alsa realizando un servicio de refuerzo Torrevieja-Madrid (VAC-055: Enatcar).
This print had deteriorated terribly, being totally red ! I've done what I can with it.
This is the two favourite radio telephone fitted 08s which patrolled Whitemoor yard in the week, here having a day off on a Sunday in July 1980. They had both been recently overhauled at Swindon Works.
08257 went new to March in December 1956 as 13327. 08258 went new to Mexborough the same month but joined its sister at March in May 1957. Both locomotives were transferred away to Cambridge in August 1982, but 08258 did return to March in 1985. Both locos survived until 1989 when they went to Vic Berry's scrapyard.
Sunset at Swiftcurrent Lake, with the backdrop of Grinnell Point, Mt. Wilbur, and the Ptarmigan Wall.
Glacier National Park
July 27, 2015
This is an HDR image consisting of 5 exposures merged in Photomatix Pro. Additional processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
PENTAX K-3, Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
ISO 100 18 mm ¹⁄₂₅ sec at ƒ / 11
08257 rest between duties on March MPD, 16th August 1975.
Locomotive History
Originally 13327 when built at Darlington works and later D3327 it entered traffic in December 1956 allocated to March MPD. It would receive its final classified repair at Swindon in November 1979, however as it retained its vacuum brake only status that repair did not prevent its withdrawal in October 1985, its final allocation being Norwich MPD after a spell at Cambridge from 1982. It was not immediately broken up and survived for over three years until finally succumbing and being broken up at Vic Berry, Leicester in February 1989
Ceremonia de arriar bandera en la plaza de la Constitución. Centro Histórico Ciudad de México. Interestingness #363 Apr 24, 2007
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Edited Mars Express/DLR image of a large part of Mars from Mars Express images/data. This is a nice-looking projection making it seem as if you are flying low over the surface of Mars. Color variant.
Original caption: Previously, images of Mars were available in strip format – strip by strip carefully flown with the European Mars Express spacecraft and processed into three-dimensional terrain models and perspective images. Now, planetary scientists, under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, joined these individual 50 to 100 kilometre wide strips to create a single large-scale map. The first mosaic comprises 2.3 million square kilometres of the surface, and covers the vast crater-strewn highland region of the Red Planet, parts of the Ares Vallis outflow channel, the chaotic Aram Chaos region as well as the Meridiani Planum and Chryse Planitia plains. "Gerhard Mercator and Carl Friedrich Gauss measured Earth, and with our survey of Mars we are following in their footsteps," says Ralf Jaumann, a DLR planetary scientist and Principal Investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express spacecraft. "The quality we have attained with the HRSC images had never before been achieved."
Borderless and uniform
The mosaic extends over 1800 kilometres from north to south and 1300 kilometres from east to west. Individual stereo and colour images from a total of 89 Martian orbits were combined to create this product. "The strips were recorded at varying resolutions, with the Sun at different positions and under varying weather conditions. The challenge was to combine them uniformly and without visible borders to form one large image," Jaumann explains. For this, the geometric relationships of the individual images to one another and their geographical position must be determined with high precision. In doing so, it is possible to measure Mars accurately and globally.
The data for this wide-area topography of Mars was acquired with the HRSC, which has been orbiting the Red Planet together with Mars Express since 25 December 2003. Nine sensors record the surface of the planet from different angles and make it possible to map our planetary neighbour at high resolution, in colour, and in the third dimension – elevation. HRSC has, during the course of more than 14,000 orbits, recorded and transmitted a total of 293.34 gigabytes of data to Earth. Coverage of 70 percent of the Martian surface with image resolutions of 10 to 20 metres is being used for the highest precision 3D mapping. Additional datasets will continue to be recorded and analysed. About 97 percent of the planet has been recorded with image resolutions of up to 100 metres.
The next step is the successful processing of large-scale mosaics achieved by a working group led by DLR planetary researcher Klaus Gwinner: "Surveying the planet marks another milestone," says Gwinner. By around 2018, the team from DLR, FU Berlin and Hannover University wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic.
3D view of valleys and craters
The first completed mosaic is the basis for a variety of uses. Colour-coded digital terrain models show the impressive differences in height between the Meridiani Planum region at 250 metres below the nominal level of the Martian surface up to the 5000 metres lower-lying Chryse Planitia region. Perspective views look into the Ares Vallis outflow channel or into a crater altered by typical Mars erosion processes typical on Mars. "At present, you cannot create a better image of the surface of Mars to show, for example, of the effects of flood and drought," emphasises Jaumann. Landing missions also benefit from the detailed 3D maps of Mars; for the Mars rover Curiosity, DLR planetary researchers participated in several workshops and used the regional 3D products from HRSC to assist in the selection of the appropriate landing site. In the future, when the landers from the NASA InSight mission or the ESA ExoMars mission land on the Red Planet, the engineers will also be able to produce an extremely accurate image of the landing site in three dimensions – with data from HRSC.
The HRSC experiment
HRSC was developed at DLR and built in collaboration with partners in industry (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The science team, which is headed by Principal Investigator (PI) Ralf Jaumann, consists of 52 co-investigators from 34 institutions in 11 countries. The camera is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin-Adlershof.
Image source: www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_rea...
Image courtesy: ESA/DLR.
Edited Mars Express/DLR image of a large part of Mars from Mars Express images/data. (There were some black rectangles indicating missing data that I tried to touch up with varying degrees of success. There are also still some gray rectangles in the image as well - I don't know why they're gray instead of black...)
Original caption: Previously, images of Mars were available in strip format – strip by strip carefully flown with the European Mars Express spacecraft and processed into three-dimensional terrain models and perspective images. Now, planetary scientists, under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, joined these individual 50 to 100 kilometre wide strips to create a single large-scale map. The first mosaic comprises 2.3 million square kilometres of the surface, and covers the vast crater-strewn highland region of the Red Planet, parts of the Ares Vallis outflow channel, the chaotic Aram Chaos region as well as the Meridiani Planum and Chryse Planitia plains. "Gerhard Mercator and Carl Friedrich Gauss measured Earth, and with our survey of Mars we are following in their footsteps," says Ralf Jaumann, a DLR planetary scientist and Principal Investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express spacecraft. "The quality we have attained with the HRSC images had never before been achieved."
Borderless and uniform
The mosaic extends over 1800 kilometres from north to south and 1300 kilometres from east to west. Individual stereo and colour images from a total of 89 Martian orbits were combined to create this product. "The strips were recorded at varying resolutions, with the Sun at different positions and under varying weather conditions. The challenge was to combine them uniformly and without visible borders to form one large image," Jaumann explains. For this, the geometric relationships of the individual images to one another and their geographical position must be determined with high precision. In doing so, it is possible to measure Mars accurately and globally.
The data for this wide-area topography of Mars was acquired with the HRSC, which has been orbiting the Red Planet together with Mars Express since 25 December 2003. Nine sensors record the surface of the planet from different angles and make it possible to map our planetary neighbour at high resolution, in colour, and in the third dimension – elevation. HRSC has, during the course of more than 14,000 orbits, recorded and transmitted a total of 293.34 gigabytes of data to Earth. Coverage of 70 percent of the Martian surface with image resolutions of 10 to 20 metres is being used for the highest precision 3D mapping. Additional datasets will continue to be recorded and analysed. About 97 percent of the planet has been recorded with image resolutions of up to 100 metres.
The next step is the successful processing of large-scale mosaics achieved by a working group led by DLR planetary researcher Klaus Gwinner: "Surveying the planet marks another milestone," says Gwinner. By around 2018, the team from DLR, FU Berlin and Hannover University wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic.
3D view of valleys and craters
The first completed mosaic is the basis for a variety of uses. Colour-coded digital terrain models show the impressive differences in height between the Meridiani Planum region at 250 metres below the nominal level of the Martian surface up to the 5000 metres lower-lying Chryse Planitia region. Perspective views look into the Ares Vallis outflow channel or into a crater altered by typical Mars erosion processes typical on Mars. "At present, you cannot create a better image of the surface of Mars to show, for example, of the effects of flood and drought," emphasises Jaumann. Landing missions also benefit from the detailed 3D maps of Mars; for the Mars rover Curiosity, DLR planetary researchers participated in several workshops and used the regional 3D products from HRSC to assist in the selection of the appropriate landing site. In the future, when the landers from the NASA InSight mission or the ESA ExoMars mission land on the Red Planet, the engineers will also be able to produce an extremely accurate image of the landing site in three dimensions – with data from HRSC.
The HRSC experiment
HRSC was developed at DLR and built in collaboration with partners in industry (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The science team, which is headed by Principal Investigator (PI) Ralf Jaumann, consists of 52 co-investigators from 34 institutions in 11 countries. The camera is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin-Adlershof.
Image source: www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_rea...
Image courtesy: ESA/DLR.
Edited Mars Express/DLR image of a large part of Mars from Mars Express images/data. This is a nice-looking projection making it seem as if you are flying low over the surface of Mars.
Original caption: Previously, images of Mars were available in strip format – strip by strip carefully flown with the European Mars Express spacecraft and processed into three-dimensional terrain models and perspective images. Now, planetary scientists, under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, joined these individual 50 to 100 kilometre wide strips to create a single large-scale map. The first mosaic comprises 2.3 million square kilometres of the surface, and covers the vast crater-strewn highland region of the Red Planet, parts of the Ares Vallis outflow channel, the chaotic Aram Chaos region as well as the Meridiani Planum and Chryse Planitia plains. "Gerhard Mercator and Carl Friedrich Gauss measured Earth, and with our survey of Mars we are following in their footsteps," says Ralf Jaumann, a DLR planetary scientist and Principal Investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express spacecraft. "The quality we have attained with the HRSC images had never before been achieved."
Borderless and uniform
The mosaic extends over 1800 kilometres from north to south and 1300 kilometres from east to west. Individual stereo and colour images from a total of 89 Martian orbits were combined to create this product. "The strips were recorded at varying resolutions, with the Sun at different positions and under varying weather conditions. The challenge was to combine them uniformly and without visible borders to form one large image," Jaumann explains. For this, the geometric relationships of the individual images to one another and their geographical position must be determined with high precision. In doing so, it is possible to measure Mars accurately and globally.
The data for this wide-area topography of Mars was acquired with the HRSC, which has been orbiting the Red Planet together with Mars Express since 25 December 2003. Nine sensors record the surface of the planet from different angles and make it possible to map our planetary neighbour at high resolution, in colour, and in the third dimension – elevation. HRSC has, during the course of more than 14,000 orbits, recorded and transmitted a total of 293.34 gigabytes of data to Earth. Coverage of 70 percent of the Martian surface with image resolutions of 10 to 20 metres is being used for the highest precision 3D mapping. Additional datasets will continue to be recorded and analysed. About 97 percent of the planet has been recorded with image resolutions of up to 100 metres.
The next step is the successful processing of large-scale mosaics achieved by a working group led by DLR planetary researcher Klaus Gwinner: "Surveying the planet marks another milestone," says Gwinner. By around 2018, the team from DLR, FU Berlin and Hannover University wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic.
3D view of valleys and craters
The first completed mosaic is the basis for a variety of uses. Colour-coded digital terrain models show the impressive differences in height between the Meridiani Planum region at 250 metres below the nominal level of the Martian surface up to the 5000 metres lower-lying Chryse Planitia region. Perspective views look into the Ares Vallis outflow channel or into a crater altered by typical Mars erosion processes typical on Mars. "At present, you cannot create a better image of the surface of Mars to show, for example, of the effects of flood and drought," emphasises Jaumann. Landing missions also benefit from the detailed 3D maps of Mars; for the Mars rover Curiosity, DLR planetary researchers participated in several workshops and used the regional 3D products from HRSC to assist in the selection of the appropriate landing site. In the future, when the landers from the NASA InSight mission or the ESA ExoMars mission land on the Red Planet, the engineers will also be able to produce an extremely accurate image of the landing site in three dimensions – with data from HRSC.
The HRSC experiment
HRSC was developed at DLR and built in collaboration with partners in industry (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The science team, which is headed by Principal Investigator (PI) Ralf Jaumann, consists of 52 co-investigators from 34 institutions in 11 countries. The camera is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin-Adlershof.
Image source: www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_rea...
Image courtesy: ESA/DLR.
Edited Mars Express/DLR image of a large part of Mars from Mars Express images/data. Labeled elevation map.
Original caption: Previously, images of Mars were available in strip format – strip by strip carefully flown with the European Mars Express spacecraft and processed into three-dimensional terrain models and perspective images. Now, planetary scientists, under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, joined these individual 50 to 100 kilometre wide strips to create a single large-scale map. The first mosaic comprises 2.3 million square kilometres of the surface, and covers the vast crater-strewn highland region of the Red Planet, parts of the Ares Vallis outflow channel, the chaotic Aram Chaos region as well as the Meridiani Planum and Chryse Planitia plains. "Gerhard Mercator and Carl Friedrich Gauss measured Earth, and with our survey of Mars we are following in their footsteps," says Ralf Jaumann, a DLR planetary scientist and Principal Investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express spacecraft. "The quality we have attained with the HRSC images had never before been achieved."
Borderless and uniform
The mosaic extends over 1800 kilometres from north to south and 1300 kilometres from east to west. Individual stereo and colour images from a total of 89 Martian orbits were combined to create this product. "The strips were recorded at varying resolutions, with the Sun at different positions and under varying weather conditions. The challenge was to combine them uniformly and without visible borders to form one large image," Jaumann explains. For this, the geometric relationships of the individual images to one another and their geographical position must be determined with high precision. In doing so, it is possible to measure Mars accurately and globally.
The data for this wide-area topography of Mars was acquired with the HRSC, which has been orbiting the Red Planet together with Mars Express since 25 December 2003. Nine sensors record the surface of the planet from different angles and make it possible to map our planetary neighbour at high resolution, in colour, and in the third dimension – elevation. HRSC has, during the course of more than 14,000 orbits, recorded and transmitted a total of 293.34 gigabytes of data to Earth. Coverage of 70 percent of the Martian surface with image resolutions of 10 to 20 metres is being used for the highest precision 3D mapping. Additional datasets will continue to be recorded and analysed. About 97 percent of the planet has been recorded with image resolutions of up to 100 metres.
The next step is the successful processing of large-scale mosaics achieved by a working group led by DLR planetary researcher Klaus Gwinner: "Surveying the planet marks another milestone," says Gwinner. By around 2018, the team from DLR, FU Berlin and Hannover University wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic.
3D view of valleys and craters
The first completed mosaic is the basis for a variety of uses. Colour-coded digital terrain models show the impressive differences in height between the Meridiani Planum region at 250 metres below the nominal level of the Martian surface up to the 5000 metres lower-lying Chryse Planitia region. Perspective views look into the Ares Vallis outflow channel or into a crater altered by typical Mars erosion processes typical on Mars. "At present, you cannot create a better image of the surface of Mars to show, for example, of the effects of flood and drought," emphasises Jaumann. Landing missions also benefit from the detailed 3D maps of Mars; for the Mars rover Curiosity, DLR planetary researchers participated in several workshops and used the regional 3D products from HRSC to assist in the selection of the appropriate landing site. In the future, when the landers from the NASA InSight mission or the ESA ExoMars mission land on the Red Planet, the engineers will also be able to produce an extremely accurate image of the landing site in three dimensions – with data from HRSC.
The HRSC experiment
HRSC was developed at DLR and built in collaboration with partners in industry (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The science team, which is headed by Principal Investigator (PI) Ralf Jaumann, consists of 52 co-investigators from 34 institutions in 11 countries. The camera is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin-Adlershof.
Image source: www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_rea...
Image courtesy: ESA/DLR.
At the Rosh Hashanah Reception in the European Parliament First Vice President McGuinness welcomes Jewish leaders.
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Edited Mars Express/DLR image of a large part of Mars from Mars Express images/data. Perspective visualization with elevation over a channel.
Original caption: Previously, images of Mars were available in strip format – strip by strip carefully flown with the European Mars Express spacecraft and processed into three-dimensional terrain models and perspective images. Now, planetary scientists, under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, joined these individual 50 to 100 kilometre wide strips to create a single large-scale map. The first mosaic comprises 2.3 million square kilometres of the surface, and covers the vast crater-strewn highland region of the Red Planet, parts of the Ares Vallis outflow channel, the chaotic Aram Chaos region as well as the Meridiani Planum and Chryse Planitia plains. "Gerhard Mercator and Carl Friedrich Gauss measured Earth, and with our survey of Mars we are following in their footsteps," says Ralf Jaumann, a DLR planetary scientist and Principal Investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express spacecraft. "The quality we have attained with the HRSC images had never before been achieved."
Borderless and uniform
The mosaic extends over 1800 kilometres from north to south and 1300 kilometres from east to west. Individual stereo and colour images from a total of 89 Martian orbits were combined to create this product. "The strips were recorded at varying resolutions, with the Sun at different positions and under varying weather conditions. The challenge was to combine them uniformly and without visible borders to form one large image," Jaumann explains. For this, the geometric relationships of the individual images to one another and their geographical position must be determined with high precision. In doing so, it is possible to measure Mars accurately and globally.
The data for this wide-area topography of Mars was acquired with the HRSC, which has been orbiting the Red Planet together with Mars Express since 25 December 2003. Nine sensors record the surface of the planet from different angles and make it possible to map our planetary neighbour at high resolution, in colour, and in the third dimension – elevation. HRSC has, during the course of more than 14,000 orbits, recorded and transmitted a total of 293.34 gigabytes of data to Earth. Coverage of 70 percent of the Martian surface with image resolutions of 10 to 20 metres is being used for the highest precision 3D mapping. Additional datasets will continue to be recorded and analysed. About 97 percent of the planet has been recorded with image resolutions of up to 100 metres.
The next step is the successful processing of large-scale mosaics achieved by a working group led by DLR planetary researcher Klaus Gwinner: "Surveying the planet marks another milestone," says Gwinner. By around 2018, the team from DLR, FU Berlin and Hannover University wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic.
3D view of valleys and craters
The first completed mosaic is the basis for a variety of uses. Colour-coded digital terrain models show the impressive differences in height between the Meridiani Planum region at 250 metres below the nominal level of the Martian surface up to the 5000 metres lower-lying Chryse Planitia region. Perspective views look into the Ares Vallis outflow channel or into a crater altered by typical Mars erosion processes typical on Mars. "At present, you cannot create a better image of the surface of Mars to show, for example, of the effects of flood and drought," emphasises Jaumann. Landing missions also benefit from the detailed 3D maps of Mars; for the Mars rover Curiosity, DLR planetary researchers participated in several workshops and used the regional 3D products from HRSC to assist in the selection of the appropriate landing site. In the future, when the landers from the NASA InSight mission or the ESA ExoMars mission land on the Red Planet, the engineers will also be able to produce an extremely accurate image of the landing site in three dimensions – with data from HRSC.
The HRSC experiment
HRSC was developed at DLR and built in collaboration with partners in industry (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The science team, which is headed by Principal Investigator (PI) Ralf Jaumann, consists of 52 co-investigators from 34 institutions in 11 countries. The camera is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin-Adlershof.
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