Moonandback interviews Robert Smith about his connection to the Space Studies Institute:
Robert Smith tells a story of wishing to donate his collection of space-related material to a place where researchers could access it, his search for such a place, and his eventual discovery of a stunning archival resource for scientists and engineers in an institute born of Gerard O’Neill’s vision.
– Robert Smith – The Moonandback Interview Documentary Project.
Digital Terrain Models created from dual images produced by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provide elevation data for the surface of the Red Planet. And they are very pretty as well : The most beautiful images of Mars you’ve ever seen – io9.com.
Here are a couple of samples.
HiRise | DTM: East Coprates Chasma Dune Fields and Wall Rock (Stereo view):
The IMAX film project In Saturn’s Rings employes new techniques with high-resolution still photos from space, probes like the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn, to give viewers a vivid authentic sense of flying through the scene. Below is a new trailer that gives a taste of how the IMAX film, set to be released in 2014, will take the audience into space with photos from 26 different missions: New trailer for In Saturn’s Rings is guaranteed to give you goosebumps
From the website:
In Saturn’s Rings is a non-profit giant-screen art film that takes audiences on a journey of the mind, heart and spirit from the big bang to the near future via the Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. Currently in production after years of development, In Saturn’s Rings aims for global release late next year.
Composed entirely of still photographs using innovative visual techniques developed by the filmmaker, In Saturn’s Rings stretches the boundaries of the motion picture form. The film will feature powerful music by Ferry Corsten, William Orbit, Samuel Barber and melds non-narrative visual poetry & science documentary into a rich experience for audiences.
In Saturn’s Rings is a film that’s both personal and universal, experimental and sincere, science and spirit , non-narrative and documentary. The goal is to use large screen imagery, synchronized to powerful but moving music, to create an experience for those who see it, hear it and feel it.
Using hundreds of thousands of still images manipulated to create full motion, using “2.75D” photographic fly-through technology. The film will be presented in IMAX® quality 6K resolution on massive screens and concert-level surround systems to audiences in giant screen institutions, IMAX® theaters, fulldome planetariums, museums and select 4k digital cinemas.
Copenhagen Suborbitals successfully launched their actively guided rocket Sapphire on June 23rd. (See Launch Success of Active Guided Rocket Sapphire – Next Stop Space – Wired Science/Wired.com).
They have released the video shown below of an animation of the rocket during the flight based on the telemetry that it transmitted: Re-animated Flight Event of the Sapphire Rocket – Wired Science/Wired.com
Bas Lansdorp, co-founder and CEO of Mars One, discusses radiation exposure Mars settlers and how they plan to deal with radiation shielding for their Mars base: Radiation Fears Should Not Hold Back Mars One Mission – Space.com.
Robert Zubrin, president of Pioneer Astronautics and the Mars Society, gives his analysis of a recent NASA report on radiation dosages for a Mars trip: Curiosity’s Radiation Results – Robert Zubrin/SpaceNews.com.
