Deep impact images

[rlb2]

I thought I would start a thread dedicated to Deep Impact Imaging, didn't want to ******-up <br />someone else’s discussion on the other threads....I made an educated guess on the color since <br />RGB filter images are not available at this time.<br /><br />This is where you can find the grayscale images I posted below. Cant wait for the official color of <br />the impact before and after.<br /><br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/index.html<br /><br />PIA02123.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02121.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02124.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02120.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02127.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02129.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02128.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

PIA02133.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rhodan]

Truly astonishing pics. Thanks rlb2.

 

[vogon13]

Appreciate having these here to study so quickly!<br /><br />Excellent work.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[telfrow]

Thanks rlb2...great work. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[hurricane4911]

WoW!<br /><br />I'm breathless

 

[yurkin]

Great Images, Thanks<br /><br />Did you pick that color scheme for accuracy or just for clarity?

 

[rlb2]

Rhodan, vogon13, telfrow, hurricane4911, yurkin,<br /><br />Thanks every one I have been waiting a long time for this. I’m lucky to have some of the tools to enhance <br />it after the fact. <br /><br />I proposed something similar many years ago writing and then e-mailing [the internet was very young then]<br /> everyone that would listen. I proposed that they should crash Galileo, which would have been at the <br />end of its extended mission into Europa, while the newly launched Cassini was in the neighborhood. <br />It never happened for debatable reasons, now after the Lunar Prospector and now the phenomenal <br />work JPL did with Deep Impact I am at peace with the idea that it would work and it is one of the best <br />ways to extract out deeply held secrets of other worlds….<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

<applause><br /><br />Once again, you have brought us some wonderful pictures! Tks rlb2!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[rlb2]

Thanks<br /><br />Here are some more.<br /><br />121479main_lastpic-362.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

<font color="orange">Did you pick that color scheme for accuracy or just for clarity?<font color="white"> <br /><br />Mostly for clarity. Note - I colored a couple images grayish to hedge my bet. Won't know the real color<br /> until they release a color composite.<br /><br />121525main_approach-x4-516-<br /><br /></font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[petepan]

I could of sworn i replied to this thread earlier, so for what it's worth, here is another voice of approval for all the great pics you keep delivering.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[pocket_rocket]

Some of the space sites should pay you to use your images. I have not seen better.

 

[rlb2]

<font color="orange">Some of the space sites should pay you to use your images. I have not seen better.<font color="white"><br /><br />Thanks <br /><br />In the back rooms and back allies of JPL, NASA and ESA they are doing this with much more<br /> expensive equipment resulting in much greater detail. Since it is an acquired original image from JPL<br /> Proprietary information (copyright protected against someone trying to sell the original image ) can <br />someone get paid to enhance it, good question? Right now I am just guessing at the color because I did <br />this from one image, not the three filtered RGB images needed to be more exact on the color scheme. It <br />has to be processed in a more exact science at JPL to release it in color because the whole world is watching.</font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[jindivik]

theres one thing i dont uderstand, images of the impactor approaching the comet, wheres all the gas & dust? it just looks like a normal asteroid to me <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> did they have a filter over the lens or something?