Striking animation, once you catch on to what you're looking at. There are longer sets of images at
Transit of Deimos from Mars (involving transits by Mars's smaller moon), but it doesn't look like anyone has composed an animation of them yet.
Proposed caption
This sequence of four images shows the Martian moon
Phobos transiting the disc of the
sun, as seen from the surface of
Mars by the
Opportunity rover in March of 2004. Because Phobos's apparent size is smaller than that of the solar disc, such events are called transits rather than eclipses. A transit of Phobos from Mars is observable from at least some point on Mars on most days of the Martian year-- the events usually last only 30 seconds or so due to Phobos's rapid orbital period of about 7.6 hours.
Comment. It is interesting, but gee it's very small, and the quality is frankly pretty terrible. I can't help but wonder whether a normal single photo part way through the transit, but with decent quality and resolution wouldn't be better (if such a thing exists). I also somewhat question its use in
Eclipse. --
jjron (
talk) 08:37, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
CommentThe thing that makes this image is the inclusion of movement. It shows the "transit" of one object across another. If you take a single photo it will just look like a blurry image of a funky cresent moon or
Cookie Monster's eyeball. I Support this image *if* this is the most in-focus sequence possible for these objects.
Saudade7 12:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
There are other transits of Phobos observed by the rovers (e.g. Spirit sol
1075, 1077, 1078). The unsharpness is due to upsampling.
MER-C 12:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course a single image from here will just be some blurry blobs, because that's what this is. That was my point, if there was something that was clear and informative out there as a single image it would probably be better, despite lacking motion. --
jjron (
talk) 07:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose While it is interesting from an astronomy POV, I don't feel it is high-quality enough to be an FP. To most people, this is just a fuzzy black circle moving across a fuzzy white circle.
Clegs (
talk) 16:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Each frame has been upsampled by ~550% from original dimensions of 63x63. This is the maximum possible for shots of this type at the moment. The raw product IDs are (I think) 1P132176282ESF05A6P2670R8M1, 1P132176272ESF05A6P2670R8M1, 1P132176262ESF05A6P2670R8M1, 1P132176252ESF05A6P2670R8M1 and 1P132176242ESF05A6P2670R8M1 which you can obtain from
here or
here (
PDS IMG file type warning).
MER-C 11:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
4STRENGTH4STAMLEATHERBELT? --
ffroth 07:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Clegs. Also oppose Froth's belt, those stats are waaaaay too low xD. --
Mad TinmanTC 19:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Level 18 :/ --
ffroth 21:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
:o you need more levels, seriously XD --
Mad TinmanTC 12:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Sorry, having thought about it a bit more, this has too much lacking, despite the interest factor. Size, upsampled, black and white, blurriness, lack of detail... To anyone viewing this that doesn't look into it, it's just a fuzzy potato silhouette passing across a blurry white light. --
jjron (
talk) 07:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Support - the otherworldlyness, the encness, and the inability to (at present) replace with a better version win out for me. --
Golbez (
talk) 04:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose Interesting in an academic way, but certainly not visually arresting.
Oscar (
talk) 21:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Not promoted MER-C 02:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Striking animation, once you catch on to what you're looking at. There are longer sets of images at
Transit of Deimos from Mars (involving transits by Mars's smaller moon), but it doesn't look like anyone has composed an animation of them yet.
Proposed caption
This sequence of four images shows the Martian moon
Phobos transiting the disc of the
sun, as seen from the surface of
Mars by the
Opportunity rover in March of 2004. Because Phobos's apparent size is smaller than that of the solar disc, such events are called transits rather than eclipses. A transit of Phobos from Mars is observable from at least some point on Mars on most days of the Martian year-- the events usually last only 30 seconds or so due to Phobos's rapid orbital period of about 7.6 hours.
Comment. It is interesting, but gee it's very small, and the quality is frankly pretty terrible. I can't help but wonder whether a normal single photo part way through the transit, but with decent quality and resolution wouldn't be better (if such a thing exists). I also somewhat question its use in
Eclipse. --
jjron (
talk) 08:37, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
CommentThe thing that makes this image is the inclusion of movement. It shows the "transit" of one object across another. If you take a single photo it will just look like a blurry image of a funky cresent moon or
Cookie Monster's eyeball. I Support this image *if* this is the most in-focus sequence possible for these objects.
Saudade7 12:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
There are other transits of Phobos observed by the rovers (e.g. Spirit sol
1075, 1077, 1078). The unsharpness is due to upsampling.
MER-C 12:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course a single image from here will just be some blurry blobs, because that's what this is. That was my point, if there was something that was clear and informative out there as a single image it would probably be better, despite lacking motion. --
jjron (
talk) 07:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose While it is interesting from an astronomy POV, I don't feel it is high-quality enough to be an FP. To most people, this is just a fuzzy black circle moving across a fuzzy white circle.
Clegs (
talk) 16:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Each frame has been upsampled by ~550% from original dimensions of 63x63. This is the maximum possible for shots of this type at the moment. The raw product IDs are (I think) 1P132176282ESF05A6P2670R8M1, 1P132176272ESF05A6P2670R8M1, 1P132176262ESF05A6P2670R8M1, 1P132176252ESF05A6P2670R8M1 and 1P132176242ESF05A6P2670R8M1 which you can obtain from
here or
here (
PDS IMG file type warning).
MER-C 11:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)reply
4STRENGTH4STAMLEATHERBELT? --
ffroth 07:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Clegs. Also oppose Froth's belt, those stats are waaaaay too low xD. --
Mad TinmanTC 19:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Level 18 :/ --
ffroth 21:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
:o you need more levels, seriously XD --
Mad TinmanTC 12:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Sorry, having thought about it a bit more, this has too much lacking, despite the interest factor. Size, upsampled, black and white, blurriness, lack of detail... To anyone viewing this that doesn't look into it, it's just a fuzzy potato silhouette passing across a blurry white light. --
jjron (
talk) 07:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Support - the otherworldlyness, the encness, and the inability to (at present) replace with a better version win out for me. --
Golbez (
talk) 04:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Oppose Interesting in an academic way, but certainly not visually arresting.
Oscar (
talk) 21:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Not promoted MER-C 02:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)reply