   Mars pic (56k no way, Cable/ADSL get coffee while loading)
  Nasa has released a beautifull picture of the martian surface. If''s full 360 degree image roughly 17.000 x 11.000 pixels totalling a nice 9MB or so. I won''t post it with IMG tags as I would break the forum tables by about 16.000 pixels. Here''s a clicky though:http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040202a/MSPan_B1_2x-B009R1.jpg   Sander Maréchal[Lone Wolves Game Development][RoboBlast][Articles][GD Emporium][Webdesign][E-mail]
No matter where you go, eh?   SketchSoft OFFLINE | SketchNews OFFLINE | NewKlear Studios [edited by - doodle_sketch on February 4, 2004 11:26:00 AM];  I thought that was Texaco''s slogan   Sander Maréchal[Lone Wolves Game Development][RoboBlast][Articles][GD Emporium][Webdesign][E-mail];  What''s with the bunny rabbit?  (pixel x:6944 y:819).and the Dolphin at x:10164 y:1270.Most likely its a bit of the landers airbags/explosive bolts or summut.;  Reminds me of the desert tileset from brood war. ;  That rock formation is quite interesting, almost looks unnatural.... ;  WTF? They took those pictrues from my back yard!Those Bastards... |-{ ;  The brave 56k''er steps up to the plate. The ball is pitched, and he waits for it to arrive. Waits, and waits. Goes to have lunch while he waits.   News Flash! Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds DeadPointlessness;  That makes me wonder what kind of connections they have to mars. Probably not very fast, even modem speeds seems unlikely at that distance. And add that this is combined from many images, that are probably at a much higher resolution, so it must have taken some time to make that ;quote:Original post by fredizzimo  That makes me wonder what kind of connections they have to mars. Probably not very fast, even modem speeds seems unlikely at that distance. And add that this is combined from many images, that are probably at a much higher resolution, so it must have taken some time to make that  I''d bet they have several different simultaneous connections going at a time.  1 gigabyte image would take all day, but 100 10 megabyte images will only take an hour.  And that''s just to get the image off planet...once its at earth, they are free to use high tech satalite stuff to actually recieve the information, and that''ll go really fast.Further, they don''t have to worry about as much radio noise.  Not much going on on Mars, no FCC regulations to worry about, etc.  So they are free to use methods that wouldn''t work on Earth because it would interfere with other traffic.  All that said, I''m sure more accurate information can be found directly from NASA.  I''m just too lazy to verify it.CM 