A Half-Gigabyte Picture of the Moon

Now we can see what you're brethren on the dark side of the moon have been doing Steve!
 
Silly Steve, they don't take pictures of the side with the aliens, only the empty side!
 
With as many craters as there are on the moon and no atmosphere, its amazing we don't witness impacts on the moon all the time.
 
Any shots of Mars like this? It'd be pretty sweet to have shots of each planet, and cycle through them each day.
 
Cool shot. I started the download but didn't notice that I had selected "Open" instead of just "Save" so, outta nowhere Paint popped up (just did a clean install last night, haven't installed my normal image editor) and when I realized what was happening I opened Task Manager to see this starting:



For almost a minute and a half the RAM used jumped to about 2.8GB and held there, then started that slow downward slope, and the image didn't actually appear in Paint until about 25 seconds after it "flatlined" back to normal. Weird how that works...

But definitely a keeper image... now, where's Waldo? :D
 
Joe Average said:
Cool shot. I started the download but didn't notice that I had selected "Open" instead of just "Save" so, outta nowhere Paint popped up (just did a clean install last night, haven't installed my normal image editor) and when I realized what was happening I opened Task Manager to see this starting:



For almost a minute and a half the RAM used jumped to about 2.8GB and held there, then started that slow downward slope, and the image didn't actually appear in Paint until about 25 seconds after it "flatlined" back to normal. Weird how that works...

But definitely a keeper image... now, where's Waldo? :D
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Isn't it great to live in an age where not only a man can get 2GB+ of RAM with pocket change, but to utilize it on an OS that knows how to manage it properly and efficiently?
 
Yeah, but but but... if I had my "dream machine" it would have 96GB of DDR3 triple channel in it and I'd be running Windows 7 Pro x64 from a 64GB RAMdisk...

Alas, I haven't won a lottery or a major poker tournament... yet. ;)
 
Might wanna make that "battery backed" 64GB RAM disk.

Or a technological breakthrough that allows for 64GB RAM sticks utilizing race track memory.
 
No need, it would be backed up in real-time to an SSD, sorta like a RAID 1 setup but not quite. Built such a box a few weeks ago (but with 48GB in it, and 32GB for a RAMdisk with Windows 7 Pro x64 running strictly from a virtual hard drive that sits on that RAMdisk as the guest OS - also uses Windows 7 Pro x64 as the host OS as well), mirrored to a 80GB SSD.

Talk about fast... :D

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TheBluePill said:
With as many craters as there are on the moon and no atmosphere, its amazing we don't witness impacts on the moon all the time.
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I noticed their are more craters grouped together then other areas of the moon.How is the little cone in the centre of the craters formed.
 
Do you guys think the people at Kinko's would let me print this out for a poster? I hear they are strict about copyrighted things. For example, they won't let this lady photocopy a book cover.
 
Korben Dallas said:
Do you guys think the people at Kinko's would let me print this out for a poster? I hear they are strict about copyrighted things. For example, they won't let this lady photocopy a book cover.
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It's a NASA pic of the moon, it's published, it's public, I can't imagine it's an issue, really. If they complain, say you're an amateur astronomer and you snapped it at the last full moon or whatever...
 
Uncle said:
I noticed their are more craters grouped together then other areas of the moon.How is the little cone in the centre of the craters formed.
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Impact physics for large craters. The crust rebounds after being compressed, and the rebound causes central uplift.
 
Wow, pretty impressive. Did anyone bother downloading the 1/2 GB monster pic?
 
Joe Average said:
It's a NASA pic of the moon, it's published, it's public, I can't imagine it's an issue, really. If they complain, say you're an amateur astronomer and you snapped it at the last full moon or whatever...
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NASA generally allows anyone to reproduce their photos. They put them up for people to download etc. The only issue would be claiming their work is your own.

Yes, print a poster.
 
no problems at all loading the .tiff image in irfanview.
opend up almost instantly with no lag or issues at all on this simple PC.
(64bit win7, core2duo, 4GB ram)

Possibly the biggest (storage size wise) image i ever opened.
Then again its an uncompressed tiff, which is probably why it opened so quickly.
 
I found this little stretch of craters to be interesting:

odd_craters.jpg
 
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