[thechat] On the theme of NASAs 'Blue Marble'

Garrett Coakley garrett at polytechnic.co.uk
Thu Feb 21 08:14:01 CST 2002


Seen as there appears to be a few other space nuts around here.

Malin Space Science Systems, who do data processing for the Mars Global
Surveyor, have just released a digital 'atlas' of Mars.

"...it took about two days of continuous computer processing using a Sun
SunBlade 1000 system with dual 750-Mhz UltraSPARC III processors and 4
GB of RAM to composite the final map."

BBC News Story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1831000/1831843.stm


MSSS link:
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/moc_atlas/


G.

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