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Technically the images beamed back from Mars by the Spirit rovers DO
quality as a mobile blog or "moblog" do they not? At least that's the
focus of an aricle posted on the BoingBoing direcory of wonderful
things.
Now *that* is a photoblog. Chronologically indexed gallery of
interplanetary snapshots from this weekend's Mars landing. The first
images sent back are of limited quality -- and only in black and white
-- because data transmission rate from Spirit's antenna back to Earth
is limited. Higher-res color images are expected to be relayed back
from the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey Spacecraft
later today, according to Mission Control. At left:
"This mosaic image taken by the navigation camera on the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit has been further processed, resulting in a
significantly improved 360 degree panoramic view of the rover on the
surface of Mars."
Link to NASA's Mars moblog, link to full-size, 360-degree composite panorama image. Link to AP
story with details on how NASA's coping with bursting web traffic for
the online images (= 1300 web servers around the world!). (Thanks, Warren)
Source: Boing Boing Directory of Wonderful Things
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