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Mildly interesting: I opened the titular image in a new tab hoping to find a higher resolution one, only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress, and the origin
by gaudat 3y ago
Mildly interesting: I opened the titular image in a new tab hoping to find a higher resolution one, only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress, and the original image file is a whopping 102 megapixels, with all EXIF info intact, taken by a Fujifilm GFX100s. A suiting tool to take a photo of an object worth $1B.
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/orex-high-res.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/orex-high-re...
- hipadev23 3y ago> only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress Gotta give them some slack, they just spent 4 months struggling with two screws. This isn't the space race NASA anymore.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoDespite all the shit people give wordpress, this works way better than yet another Node.js atrocity that needs 700 MB of JavaScript to render text.
- neilv 3y agoI think they were trying to avoid the scenario: move fast, break things, contaminate $1B sample. Or another scenario, which is a possibility when personalities in charge don't get enough sleep: move fast, break things, snort lines of $1B asteroid dust on Rogan.
- russdill 3y agoIt's not even necessary to contaminate it. All that's necessary is behind unable to rule out contamination.
- jvanderbot 3y agoOh how quickly we're all entitled. It came from deep space. Can you give it a minute? Everything is awesome and nobody's happy. --> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U
- perihelions 3y ago- "This isn't the space race NASA anymore." To be fair, Apollo engineering failed badly on similar problems (with moon samples), - "But in spite of all this beautiful complexity, there were just basic, fundamental mistakes,” Dr. Degroot said." - "NASA officials were well aware that the lab wasn’t perfect. Dr. Degroot’s paper details many of the findings from inspections and tests that revealed gloveboxes and sterilizing autoclaves that cracked, leaked or flooded." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarantine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarant... https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/2023-degroot.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/2023-degroot.pdf (pdf) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266360 (33 comments) (The goal in that case wasn't to protect the sample integrity, but to contain alien pathogens). late edit: Another related example (lunar soil), - "Although this material has been isolated in vacuum-packed bottles, it is now unusable for detailed chemical or mechanical analysis—the gritty particles deteriorated the knife-edge indium seals of the vacuum bottles; air has slowly leaked in." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil#Availability_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil#Availability_on_Ear...
- HPsquared 3y agoThat was the old "move fast and break things" NASA.
- WWLink 3y agoWe should just have a starship go crash into an asteroid. :p
- ericcumbee 3y agoIts got to get to orbit first, you have to launch enough of them to refuel the first one. I have no doubt they will get them to work, but its not an option yet.
- WWLink 3y agoI'm pretty sure they could get enough methane out of Elon Musk running his mouth to send a probe to Pluto. Probably have enough left over to catch up with Voyager 1.
- fragmede 3y agoWhy shouldn't they use WordPress? I'd be pissed if they'd wasted taxpayers dollars coming up with a bespoke system because NIH. It's a CMS.
- rvnx 3y agoPart “Space-grade CMS”: $45’000’000
- addandsubtract 3y agoPowered by MeteorJS
- brtkdotse 3y agoThe Soviets used a handwritten HTML file served with Apache
- sph 3y agoGold plated and radiation hardened
- Kye 3y agoI can't find any suggestion that they shouldn't use WordPress in the post you replied to.
- fragmede 3y ago"only to see" sets up a contrast between what was initially expected and what was actually discovered
- buildbot 3y agoThat’s a relatively inexpensive choice, nicely suited to the job. Could have gone with a h6d-400ms for a bit more resolution ;)
- gaudat 3y agoAnything from Hasselblad is sadly not usable for US govt projects because they are owned by DJI now
- miyuru 3y agothe high res image is linked at the bottom of the article. https://images.nasa.gov/details/jsc2024e006057 https://images.nasa.gov/details/jsc2024e006057 https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2024e006057/jsc2024e006057~orig.jpg https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2024e006057/jsc2024e...
- jacquesm 3y agoInteresting how that image is so 'scale free' it could be almost any size. The only giveaways are the screw heads visible elsewhere outside of the cylinder and even those could be in quite a range.
- mywacaday 3y agoThis image is something that makes me grateful for technology, a probe was sent into our solar system, rendezvoused with a rock, colected a sample, returned back to earth and I am able to view a high resolution image on my phone almost as soon as the canister was opened. The amount of technology to make this work in space and on my phone is too long to figure out in full but bravo to all the engineers from NASA to camera makers to WordPress and everything on every layer in between that they are built on, I salute you all!
- mgdlbp 3y agoThat's a lot of hot pixels for base ISO! Could be the focus stacking intensified them. That camera can actually get a bit more resolution out of sensor movements, though the lens might be at its limit already, or focus was still a little off. edit: it's probably the glovebox glass.
- diggan 3y ago> is a whopping 102 megapixels, with all EXIF info intact, taken by a Fujifilm GFX100s I jest, but it seems like that camera is able to take photos up to 400MP, by automatically combining 16 RAW photos taken in succession ("Pixel Shift Multi Shot"). So they did lazy the job just a tiny bit ;)
- marssaxman 3y agoWhat is a "suiting tool"? It's not a term I have heard before, and a quick web search did not turn anything up.
- lucasban 3y agoThey mean that it is a good match, that it the tool suits the situation, or that it is suitable