joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) (08/28/89)
Hanauma.stanford.edu (IP number 36.51.0.16) has available a sampling of voyager images of Neptune. (Anonymous ftp, go into "pub", go into "neptune", grab "README" first.) These images were digitized off the NASA-JPL feed on Stanford cable TV. They are copyright by NASA-JPL. ------------------------------- So it is all right to grab them to pin up on the wall, show your family and friends, whip up public support for unmanned space exploration, etc, but it is not all right to use them in the paper you are sending to Nature explaining your theory about the surface of Triton (unless JPL says it's OK, of course). Each of the files consists of 1 or more 8-bit grayscale images, 640 by 480 pixels. Do not send me mail asking whether I have them available in your favorite format. I don't. The images were digitized using "ProViz" on a Mac II, and saved on a UNIX AUF partition as Encapsulated Postscript. The postscript text was deleted; only the binary data is in the file. Note that this data does not contain anywhere near as much information as the original Voyager data; it is only as good as what you could see on TV. It is, however, better than what you are likely to have seen in the newspapers. Finally, please don't ask me to post these images; they're too big. Please also don't ask me to e-mail them to you; I just don't have time (sorry!). (Exceptions can, of course, be made if you have a useful public-domain graphics subroutine to donate to the cause of a public-domain program for displaying Postscript^TM (ghostscript, actually) on any kind of device!) Share and Enjoy. \ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ \ / \ / \ /Dept of Geophysics, Stanford University \/\/\.-.-....___ \/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger joe@hanauma.stanford.edu apple!hanauma!joe\/\.-._
seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) (08/30/89)
sol.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.40] will also be allowing anonymous
ftp of Voyager Images (both in raster && pure bitmapped form)
Look in /pub/neptune/*
Note: The number of ftp sessions might well be limited, so if you
get a connection refused, try later.
Please try and restrict your ftps to non working hours (11-7 :-) EDT
All restrictions applying to the other images apply here since they are
one and the same!
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-Seth Robertson
seth@ctr.columbia.eduschaper@pnet51.orb.mn.org (S Schaper) (08/31/89)
How do I obtain any of these images? I am new to modeming ~1 month. If anyone
out there has transfered any of these to forms that can be used by the Atari
ST, esp. the .IM and .COL used by the PD AIM image processor, or even in Degas
or .tny, or even as a Macintosh screen dump, or Amiga .IFF, please e-mail me
how to obtain them, if you are willing to make them available. I am *very*
interested in playing with image-processing them, or other NASA planetary
photos. An additional note: Would this sort of thing make a good educational
project if JPL would in time release selected shots for processing for the
various home computers that are used in schools and colleges?
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