Channel 9 - Entries tagged with NASA Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with NASA http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/nasa Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/nasa en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:35:33 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:35:33 GMT Rev9 14 1 25 TWC9: Azure Web rev's, WAMS opens source, Windows 8 Camp in a Box, JavaScript resources This week on Channel 9, Dan and Mark DeFalco discuss the week's top developer news, including;

Picks of the Week!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-21-2012 This week on Channel 9, Dan and Mark DeFalco discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:47] Announcing: Great Improvements to Windows Azure Web Sites (Scott Guthrie) [2:11] Announcing Open Sourcing of Windows Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub, and Partnership with Xamarin (Kirill Gavrylyuk) [3:27] Now Available...Windows 8 Camp In a Box for RTM (G. Andrew Duthie), http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29854 [4:33] TechEd NZ Highlight: Everything You Need to Know About Building REAL XAML Apps for Windows 8 (Ben Gracewood, Nigel Sampson), TechEd Australia 2012 on Channel 9  [5:41] Metro Studio – your modern UI style icons paradise (Toni Petrina), https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/metrostudio [6:53] Metrosnaps [Found via: Dan Rigby - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-19] [7:58] Roslyn September 2012 CTP Available for Download [Found Via: Roslyn September 2012 CTP Available for Download! (Anthony D. Green)] [8:46] A JavaScript Learning Trifecta; http://javascriptenlightenment.com/ & DOM Enlightenment (Cody Lindley), http://jsbooks.revolunet.com/ [Found via: Rey Bango] [9:57] http://jscriptlinq.codeplex.com/ [Found Via: $linq – A Javascript LINQ library v1.0 Released (Senthil Kumar)]. Also see Senthil's 5 LINQ for JavaScript Libraries post for more like libraries Picks of the Week! Mark's Pick of the Week:[11:10] Instant C# Visualization (Eric Maupin) Dan's Pick of the Week:[12:57] The Open API Universe at NASA (Nick Skytland) 879 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-21-2012 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:50:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-21-2012 Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-21-2012/RSS JavaScript LINQ NASA Windows Azure XAML Windows 8 Gorgeous Galaxies in New NASA Theme A new NASA Windows 7 theme is now being featured on the Windows 7 personalization gallery website. This site, for those that don't know, is a great resource for finding new ways to personalize your PC, including free themes, backgrounds and gadgets.

Recent additions to the themes gallery have included a handful of "Bing's Best" themes, including a very cool one – and one of my new favorites - featuring images from Japan (See: Bing’s Best: Japan here).

The new NASA theme ("Spacescapes") is an excellent follow-up to the earlier one showcasing imagery  revealed by the infrared system of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The Spacescapes theme offers gorgeous imagery of galaxies, dying stars and more. You can grab it here. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Gorgeous-Galaxies-in-New-NASA-Theme A new NASA Windows 7 theme is now being featured on the Windows 7 personalization gallery website. This site, for those that don't know, is a great resource for finding new ways to personalize your PC, including free themes, backgrounds and gadgets. Recent additions to the themes gallery have included a handful of "Bing's Best" themes, including a very cool one – and one of my new favorites - featuring images from Japan (See: Bing’s Best: Japan here). The new NASA theme ("Spacescapes") is an excellent follow-up to the earlier one showcasing imagery  revealed by the infrared system of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The Spacescapes theme offers gorgeous imagery of galaxies, dying stars and more. You can grab it here.  http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Gorgeous-Galaxies-in-New-NASA-Theme Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:27:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Gorgeous-Galaxies-in-New-NASA-Theme Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Gorgeous-Galaxies-in-New-NASA-Theme/RSS NASA Personalization theme Themes Windows 7 personalize NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements.  New data APIs in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure...but did you realize they also launched a programming competition?

NASA has hundreds of thousands of images from their missions to Mars, and with the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge, they want to enlist your coding skills to help classify them. This is a unique opportunity where you can help NASA and win some great prizes by utilizing your existing .NET skills.

The Pathfinder Innovation Challenge consists of four different “leagues." In the Global Cooperation League, you’ll build casual games, which will allow every day citizens to help classify images in a game environment (similar to the counting craters application that can be found online here: http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/maproom), and you'll do so using Silverlight and NASA's Azure-hosted APIs in codename Dallas. In the Intelligence League, you’ll use the power of the Azure cloud to attempt to solve the same problem by programmatically examining and classifying the images.

Full details for the competition can be found on their website at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic. Details specific to the Global Cooperation League are available at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/coop-league and details for the Intelligence League can be found at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/intelligence-league. Also, be sure to check out the intelligence league site for a series of “How Do I?” videos, which demonstrate how to sign up for and use the Codename Dallas API.

In addition to helping mankind and being able to brag that your code was helping NASA, PIC winners will also win amazing prizes, including NASA swag, ZuneHDs, and trips to see the launch of the next Mars Rover.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements.  New data APIs in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure...but did you realize they also launched a programming competition? NASA has hundreds of thousands of images from their missions to Mars, and with the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge, they want to enlist your coding skills to help classify them. This is a unique opportunity where you can help NASA and win some great prizes by utilizing your existing .NET skills. The Pathfinder Innovation Challenge consists of four different “leagues." In the Global Cooperation League, you’ll build casual games, which will allow every day citizens to help classify images in a game environment (similar to the counting craters application that can be found online here: http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/maproom), and you'll do so using Silverlight and NASA's Azure-hosted APIs in codename Dallas. In the Intelligence League, you’ll use the power of the Azure cloud to attempt to solve the same problem by programmatically examining and classifying the images. Full details for the competition can be found on their website at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic. Details specific to the Global Cooperation League are available at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/coop-league and details for the Intelligence League can be found at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/intelligence-league. Also, be sure to check out the intelligence league site for a series of “How Do I?” videos, which demonstrate how to sign up for and use the Codename Dallas API. In addition to helping mankind and being able to brag that your code was helping NASA, PIC winners will also win amazing prizes, including NASA swag, ZuneHDs, and trips to see the launch of the next Mars Rover. 663 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:21:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge/RSS .NET .NET Framework Azure NASA Silverlight NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements.  New data APIs in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure...but did you realize they also launched a programming competition?

 

NASA has hundreds of thousands of images from their missions to Mars, and with the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge, they want to enlist your coding skills to help classify them. This is a unique opportunity where you can help NASA and win some great prizes by utilizing your existing .NET skills.

 

The Pathfinder Innovation Challenge consists of four different “leagues." In the Global Cooperation League, you’ll build casual games, which will allow every day citizens to help classify images in a game environment (similar to the counting craters application that can be found online here: http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/maproom), and you'll do so using Silverlight and NASA's Azure-hosted APIs in codename Dallas. In the Intelligence League, you’ll use the power of the Azure cloud to attempt to solve the same problem by programmatically examining and classifying the images.

 

Full details for the competition can be found on their website at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic. Details specific to the Global Cooperation League are available at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/coop-league and details for the Intelligence League can be found at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/intelligence-league. Also, be sure to check out the intelligence league site for a series of “How Do I?” videos, which demonstrate how to sign up for and use the Codename Dallas API.

 

In addition to helping mankind and being able to brag that your code was helping NASA, PIC winners will also win amazing prizes, including NASA swag, ZuneHDs, and trips to see the launch of the next Mars Rover.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements.  New data APIs in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure...but did you realize they also launched a programming competition?   NASA has hundreds of thousands of images from their missions to Mars, and with the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge, they want to enlist your coding skills to help classify them. This is a unique opportunity where you can help NASA and win some great prizes by utilizing your existing .NET skills.   The Pathfinder Innovation Challenge consists of four different “leagues." In the Global Cooperation League, you’ll build casual games, which will allow every day citizens to help classify images in a game environment (similar to the counting craters application that can be found online here: http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/maproom), and you'll do so using Silverlight and NASA's Azure-hosted APIs in codename Dallas. In the Intelligence League, you’ll use the power of the Azure cloud to attempt to solve the same problem by programmatically examining and classifying the images.   Full details for the competition can be found on their website at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic. Details specific to the Global Cooperation League are available at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/coop-league and details for the Intelligence League can be found at http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/pic/intelligence-league. Also, be sure to check out the intelligence league site for a series of “How Do I?” videos, which demonstrate how to sign up for and use the Codename Dallas API.   In addition to helping mankind and being able to brag that your code was helping NASA, PIC winners will also win amazing prizes, including NASA swag, ZuneHDs, and trips to see the launch of the next Mars Rover. 663 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-Pathfinder-Innovation-Challenge/RSS .NET .NET Framework Azure NASA Silverlight Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Doug McCuistion, NASA
Is there life on Mars? Tune in to see what the director of NASA's Mars Exploration program thinks. This is a great discussion about the search for life in the universe, generally, and what NASA is doing and planning to do in the quest for living systems on one planet specifically, Mars. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Doug-McCuistion-NASA Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Doug McCuistion, NASA Is there life on Mars? Tune in to see what the director of NASA's Mars Exploration program thinks. This is a great discussion about the search for life in the universe, generally, and what NASA is doing and planning to do in the quest for living systems on one planet specifically, Mars. 1741 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Doug-McCuistion-NASA Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Doug-McCuistion-NASA Nic Fillingham Nic Fillingham 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Doug-McCuistion-NASA/RSS Ch9live NASA PDC09 PDC 2009 Channel 9 Live Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA Recorded Live, November 17th 2009 at 11:00AM PST
Click here for full schedule ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Dr-Jeff-Norris-NASA Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, Planning Software Systems Group Supervisor, NASA, with Charles Torre.Recorded Live, November 17th 2009 at 11:00AM PSTClick here for full schedule 1715 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Dr-Jeff-Norris-NASA Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Dr-Jeff-Norris-NASA Nic Fillingham Nic Fillingham 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Dr-Jeff-Norris-NASA/RSS Ch9live NASA PDC09 PDC 2009 Channel 9 Live "Be a Martian" Website Crowdsources Mars Exploration Thanks to a grant from Microsoft Research, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has launched a new website called Be a Martian. On the site, visitors can virtually “explore” Mars, zooming around the planet, looking at images from various Mars landers, explorers, and satellites from the 1960’s to present-day. But Be a Martian isn’t just an educational experience – it’s a crowd-sourced experiment that may end up helping NASA accomplish something important: process the massive volumes of image data they have collected about the red planet.

To encourage visitors to pitch in with data analysis, Be a Martian makes work a game. Multiple games, in fact. In one game, players line up images from the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter with a larger image from the Mars Global Surveyor, a process which could help NASA create more accurate 3D models of the planet. Another game has users counting craters. And everyone participating earns points and badges for playing, making the process even more fun.

The site uses Silverlight so it works in any major browser while still offering a visually impressive experience. On the backend, the NASA data is stored in “Dallas,” Microsoft’s newly launched project for serving up massive data stores which web developers can use to create information-rich sites. The Be a Martian website runs on Windows Azure, allowing the site to scale as needed. “The system dedicates an appropriate amount of processors to the application, whether it’s being used by 250, 250,000 or 2,500,000 people at the same time,” says Marc Mercuri, Microsoft’s director of business innovation for Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE).

Coinciding with the site’s launch are two Martian-themed contests, one for developers and one for non-programmers. Developers can enter the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge which asks them to use the NASA data, its media API and other components to build new applications for solving a set of problems defined by NASA scientists and engineers. Non-programmers have the Martian Film Fest which lets them build on their digital movie-making skills. More details about both contests is available on NASA’s website here. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Be-a-Martian-Website-Crowdsources-Mars-Exploration Thanks to a grant from Microsoft Research, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has launched a new website called Be a Martian. On the site, visitors can virtually “explore” Mars, zooming around the planet, looking at images from various Mars landers, explorers, and satellites from the 1960’s to present-day. But Be a Martian isn’t just an educational experience – it’s a crowd-sourced experiment that may end up helping NASA accomplish something important: process the massive volumes of image data they have collected about the red planet. To encourage visitors to pitch in with data analysis, Be a Martian makes work a game. Multiple games, in fact. In one game, players line up images from the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter with a larger image from the Mars Global Surveyor, a process which could help NASA create more accurate 3D models of the planet. Another game has users counting craters. And everyone participating earns points and badges for playing, making the process even more fun. The site uses Silverlight so it works in any major browser while still offering a visually impressive experience. On the backend, the NASA data is stored in “Dallas,” Microsoft’s newly launched project for serving up massive data stores which web developers can use to create information-rich sites. The Be a Martian website runs on Windows Azure, allowing the site to scale as needed. “The system dedicates an appropriate amount of processors to the application, whether it’s being used by 250, 250,000 or 2,500,000 people at the same time,” says Marc Mercuri, Microsoft’s director of business innovation for Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE). Coinciding with the site’s launch are two Martian-themed contests, one for developers and one for non-programmers. Developers can enter the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge which asks them to use the NASA data, its media API and other components to build new applications for solving a set of problems defined by NASA scientists and engineers. Non-programmers have the http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Be-a-Martian-Website-Crowdsources-Mars-Exploration Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:52:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Be-a-Martian-Website-Crowdsources-Mars-Exploration Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Be-a-Martian-Website-Crowdsources-Mars-Exploration/RSS Azure Mars NASA Windows Azure Fly Me To the Moon
What happens when you take some of the best images from the Apollo program and feed them into Photosynth? That's what I wanted to find out. Here is a Photosynth from images taken off from the Apollo 17 Command Module's 28th Revolution around the moon.  After it loads, hold the 'CTRL' key to see the point cloud, Photosynth has created a 3D model from the images. If you press the 'a' key you can see the arc of the orbit from the side. These images are very high res so use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

Now for Apollo 11. Before looking at these synths increase the Photosynth interface size ('f' key), you might want to put on some Major Tom or Dark Side of the Moon too. I spent hours looking at this synth after making it. It's an amazing way to explore man's greatest destination. I created some highlights to help you navigate around the really cool stuff. The first is a particularly synthy set of images. Next is the iconic footprint image, you can click on it to toggle to the before picture. Until I synthed these photos I didn't even know there was a picture of the surface where the first footprint would be. The next highlight is a view looking out of Eagle at the flag, and then Eagle from the outside. I highlighted an image that didn't map to any others that when zoomed in looks like a folded pair of sequined socks, no doubt part of the Moonwalker conspiracy theory.

I also made an Apollo 11 synth that is just 3D anaglyph images, you'll need some Red/Blue glasses. It's best viewed with grid view. Here are the 3D images from Apollo 12.

Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, has the best pictures. By 17, mission planners have image stitching on the mind, there are hundreds of overlapping photos. For this synth I used 1022 images, a mixture of black and white and color. My machine crunched this synth all night long and by morning gave me this amazing collection.

 
Scroll down for a list of Photosynth keyboard shortcuts.

Apollo 11 Campsite

Apollo 12 Campsite

Apollo 17 Campsite

Apollo 11 3D Images

Apollo 12 3D Images

Apollo 17 - 28th Revolution

 

Photosynth Viewer Keyboard Shortcuts

Zooming and Neighbors
 
Scroll wheelScrolling the mouse wheel zooms you in or out. The zooming is centered around your current mouse position.
+ or -Zoom in or out around the center of the window.
← or →Move left or right to a neighboring photo, when one is available.
↑ or ↓Move inwards or outwards to a neighboring photo, when one is available.
u or jMove up or down to a neighboring photo, when one is available.
Tours and History
 
SpacebarGo to next photo in the spatial tour.
Shift-spacebarGo to next photo in alphabetical order by filename. (Depending on your camera, this is usually shooting order.)
. (period)Go to next photo in alphabetical order by filename. (Depending on your camera, this is usually shooting order.)
, (comma)Go to previous photo in alphabetical order by filename.
ZGo to the last image you were on. (Like Back in a Web browser.)
ZUndo z. (Like Forward in a Web browser.)
Fun with the Point Cloud
 
CtrlHolding the control key down temporarily hides all photos allowing you to see the point cloud in all its glory. Dragging a halo with the control button down lets you spin around the entire point cloud. Try it!
PSwitches among three modes: points, images, both.
Useful Shortcuts
 
EnterCenter the current image
FToggle full-screen
~Toggle between 2D and 3D
MGo to the next 3D group in the synth
YToggles world-up verses image-up. This is useful when Photosynth has trouble working out which way is up.
Free Navigation (Only in 3D view)
 
AStrafe left
DStrafe right
WMove forward
SMove backward
EMove up
CMove down
LRotate left
‘Rotate right
[Rotate up
;Rotate down
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon 40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. set down on the surface of the moon (with Michael Collins waiting up top) achieving the dream of billions of humans who came before them. Neil was the shutterbug of the mission and took a number great pictures despite the brutal conditions (moon dust is like talcum powder, try getting that off your lens with your thickest gloves on.)What happens when you take some of the best images from the Apollo program and feed them into Photosynth? That's what I wanted to find out. Here is a Photosynth from images taken off from the Apollo 17 Command Module's 28th Revolution around the moon.  After it loads, hold the 'CTRL' key to see the point cloud, Photosynth has created a 3D model from the images. If you press the 'a' key you can see the arc of the orbit from the side. These images are very high res so use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Now for Apollo 11. Before looking at these synths increase the Photosynth interface size ('f' key), you might want to put on some Major Tom or Dark Side of the Moon too. I spent hours looking at this synth after making it. It's an amazing way to explore man's greatest destination. I created some highlights to help you navigate around the really cool stuff. The first is a particularly synthy set of images. Next is the iconic footprint image, you can click on it to toggle to the before picture. Until I synthed these photos I didn't even know there was a picture of the surface where the first footprint would be. The next highlight is a view looking out of Eagle at the flag, and then Eagle from the outside. I highlighted an image that didn't map to any others that when zoomed in looks like a folded pair of sequined socks, no doubt part of the Moonwalker conspiracy theory. I also made an Apollo 11 synth that is just 3D anaglyph images, you'll need some Red/Blue glasses. It's best viewed with grid view. Here are the 3D images from Apollo 12. Apollo 17, the http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:11:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon/RSS NASA Photography PhotoSynth space travel Fly Me To the Moon
What happens when you take some of the best images from the Apollo program and feed them into Photosynth? That's what I wanted to find out. Here is a Photosynth from images taken off from the Apollo 17 Command Module's 28th Revolution around the moon. After it loads, hold the 'CTRL' key to see the point cloud, Photosynth has created a 3D model from the images. If you press the 'a' key you can see the arc of the orbit from the side. These images are very high res so use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

Now for Apollo 11. Before looking at these synths increase the Photosynth interface size ('f' key), you might want to put on some Major Tom or Dark Side of the Moon too. I spent hours looking at this synth after making it. It's an amazing way to explore man's greatest destination. I created some highlights to help you navigate around the really cool stuff. The first is a particularly synthy set of images. Next is the iconic footprint image, you can click on it to toggle to the before picture. Until I synthed these photos I didn't even know there was a picture of the surface where the first footprint would be. The next highlight is a view looking out of Eagle at the flag, and then Eagle from the outside. I highlighted an image that didn't map to any others that when zoomed in looks like a folded pair of sequined socks, no doubt part of the Moonwalker conspiracy theory.

I also made an Apollo 11 synth that is just 3D anaglyph images, you'll need some Red/Blue glasses. It's best viewed with grid view. Here are the 3D images from Apollo 12.

Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, has the best pictures. By 17, mission planners have image stitching on the mind, there are hundreds of overlapping photos. For this synth I used 1022 images, a mixture of black and white and color. My machine crunched this synth all night long and by morning gave me this amazing collection.

Scroll down for a list of Photosynth keyboard shortcuts.

Apollo 11 Campsite

Apollo 12 Campsite

Apollo 17 Campsite

Apollo 11 3D Images

Apollo 12 3D Images

Apollo 17 - 28th Revolution

 

Photosynth Viewer Keyboard Shortcuts

Zooming and Neighbors
Scroll wheel Scrolling the mouse wheel zooms you in or out. The zooming is centered around your current mouse position.
+ or - Zoom in or out around the center of the window.
← or → Move left or right to a neighboring photo, when one is available.
↑ or ↓ Move inwards or outwards to a neighboring photo, when one is available.
u or j Move up or down to a neighboring photo, when one is available.
Tours and History
Spacebar Go to next photo in the spatial tour.
Shift-spacebar Go to next photo in alphabetical order by filename. (Depending on your camera, this is usually shooting order.)
. (period) Go to next photo in alphabetical order by filename. (Depending on your camera, this is usually shooting order.)
, (comma) Go to previous photo in alphabetical order by filename.
Z Go to the last image you were on. (Like Back in a Web browser.)
Z Undo z. (Like Forward in a Web browser.)
Fun with the Point Cloud
Ctrl Holding the control key down temporarily hides all photos allowing you to see the point cloud in all its glory. Dragging a halo with the control button down lets you spin around the entire point cloud. Try it!
P Switches among three modes: points, images, both.
Useful Shortcuts
Enter Center the current image
F Toggle full-screen
~ Toggle between 2D and 3D
M Go to the next 3D group in the synth
Y Toggles world-up verses image-up. This is useful when Photosynth has trouble working out which way is up.
Free Navigation (Only in 3D view)
A Strafe left
D Strafe right
W Move forward
S Move backward
E Move up
C Move down
L Rotate left
‘ Rotate right
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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon 40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. set down on the surface of the moon (with Michael Collins waiting up top) achieving the dream of billions of humans who came before them. Neil was the shutterbug of the mission and took a number great pictures despite the brutal conditions (moon dust is like talcum powder, try getting that off your lens with your thickest gloves on.) What happens when you take some of the best images from the Apollo program and feed them into Photosynth? That's what I wanted to find out. Here is a Photosynth from images taken off from the Apollo 17 Command Module's 28th Revolution around the moon. After it loads, hold the 'CTRL' key to see the point cloud, Photosynth has created a 3D model from the images. If you press the 'a' key you can see the arc of the orbit from the side. These images are very high res so use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Now for Apollo 11. Before looking at these synths increase the Photosynth interface size ('f' key), you might want to put on some Major Tom or Dark Side of the Moon too. I spent hours looking at this synth after making it. It's an amazing way to explore man's greatest destination. I created some highlights to help you navigate around the really cool stuff. The first is a particularly synthy set of images. Next is the iconic footprint image, you can click on it to toggle to the before picture. Until I synthed these photos I didn't even know there was a picture of the surface where the first footprint would be. The next highlight is a view looking out of Eagle at the flag, and then Eagle from the outside. I highlighted an image that didn't map to any others that when zoomed in looks like a folded pair of sequined socks, no doubt part of the Moonwalker conspiracy theory. I also made an Apollo 11 synth that is just 3D anaglyph images, you'll need some Red/Blue glasses. It's best viewed with grid view. Here are the 3D images from Apollo 12. Apollo 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:11:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Fly-Me-To-the-Moon/RSS NASA PhotoSynth Space Silverlight powered Photosynths for NASA Laurence Moroney tells the tale of the creation of the NASA Photosynths of the International Space Station and the Mars Science Laboratory. And the best part is, even though you may not have supercomputers laying around the house, you can build your own Photosynth at Photosynth.net. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Continuum/SilverlightPhotosynthsNASA Supercomputers and robots with frickin' lasers! Laurence Moroney tells the tale of the creation of the NASA Photosynths of the International Space Station and the Mars Science Laboratory. And the best part is, even though you may not have supercomputers laying around the house, you can build your own Photosynth at Photosynth.net. 586 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Continuum/SilverlightPhotosynthsNASA Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:34:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Continuum/SilverlightPhotosynthsNASA Adam Kinney Adam Kinney 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Continuum/SilverlightPhotosynthsNASA/RSS NASA PhotoSynth Silverlight NASA and Microsoft Bring You the Stars Photosynth, DeepZoom, World Wide Telescope, HD View to name several.) NASA, on the other hand, has no shortage of great imagery and datasets. And thus a beautiful partnership was born. Building on the relationship that brought us several previous Photosynth projects, this joint agreement will first begin with high-resolution data from Mars (sample picture on left) and our Moon, which you will be able to explore through WorldWide Telescope. The imagery from Mars will be coming from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which was launched in 2005 and has since collected more data from Mars than all other Mars missions combined.

This joint agreement covers more than 100 terabyte of data, which is roughly the equivalent of 20,000 DVD's. Viewing this imagery will be possible later this year (keep tuned, we'll let you know) and will also include images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that will be launched in May. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-and-Microsoft-Bring-You-the-Stars There is no doubting that Microsoft has some of the most innovative visualization tools available for looking at large and multiple images (Photosynth, DeepZoom, World Wide Telescope, HD View to name several.) NASA, on the other hand, has no shortage of great imagery and datasets. And thus a beautiful partnership was born. Building on the relationship that brought us several previous Photosynth projects, this joint agreement will first begin with high-resolution data from Mars (sample picture on left) and our Moon, which you will be able to explore through WorldWide Telescope. The imagery from Mars will be coming from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which was launched in 2005 and has since collected more data from Mars than all other Mars missions combined. This joint agreement covers more than 100 terabyte of data, which is roughly the equivalent of 20,000 DVD's. Viewing this imagery will be possible later this year (keep tuned, we'll let you know) and will also include images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that will be launched in May. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-and-Microsoft-Bring-You-the-Stars Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:01:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-and-Microsoft-Bring-You-the-Stars Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/NASA-and-Microsoft-Bring-You-the-Stars/RSS Microsoft NASA World Wide Telescope Add Nasa TV to Media Center Beullpilot on The Green Button forums has offered a tip on getting NASA’s streaming TV feeds into your Windows Media Center. He directs us to the website http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ where you can access the Windows Media download by right-clicking where it says “Windows Media” and choosing “Save Target As.” However, the Hack7mc site made it even easier by providing a downloadable zip file in their SkyDrive that contains all the files you need. After adding the contents provided to the Videos section of your Media Center, you should be able to then see the four NASA feeds available.

Since this trick is accomplished by downloading ASX files from sites that stream Windows Media files, it could be done elsewhere on the web, too, anywhere ASX downloads are available. Know any others? Comment here or on the original post.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Add-Nasa-TV-to-Media-Center Beullpilot on The Green Button forums has offered a tip on getting NASA’s streaming TV feeds into your Windows Media Center. He directs us to the website http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ where you can access the Windows Media download by right-clicking where it says “Windows Media” and choosing “Save Target As.” However, the Hack7mc site made it even easier by providing a downloadable zip file in their SkyDrive that contains all the files you need. After adding the contents provided to the Videos section of your Media Center, you should be able to then see the four NASA feeds available. Since this trick is accomplished by downloading ASX files from sites that stream Windows Media files, it could be done elsewhere on the web, too, anywhere ASX downloads are available. Know any others? Comment here or on the original post. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Add-Nasa-TV-to-Media-Center Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Add-Nasa-TV-to-Media-Center Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Add-Nasa-TV-to-Media-Center/RSS NASA Windows Media Center Streaming feeds Streaming Media Channel 9 on Mars: A tour of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasendena, CA last month whilst we were in town for PDC2008.
Dave Lavery, Program Executive for Solar System Exploration (aka coolest job title evar!) granted us permission to film a portion of his awesome tour and spoke with Charles about designing and building robots for use on other planets.

"Tune in and learn about some of the challenges of developing autonomous machines that you will never get to touch again (think about the reduncancy requirements for a robot rover that is deployed 100 million miles away from Earth...)"

Check it out here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Channel-9-on-Mars-Inside-the-Mars-Exploration-Mission-Past-Present-and-Future/ ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-on-Mars-A-tour-of-the-NASA-Jet-Propulsion-Lab Charles and I were lucky enough to get a tour of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasendena, CA last month whilst we were in town for PDC2008.Dave Lavery, Program Executive for Solar System Exploration (aka coolest job title evar!) granted us permission to film a portion of his awesome tour and spoke with Charles about designing and building robots for use on other planets."Tune in and learn about some of the challenges of developing autonomous machines that you will never get to touch again (think about the reduncancy requirements for a robot rover that is deployed 100 million miles away from Earth...)"Check it out here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Channel-9-on-Mars-Inside-the-Mars-Exploration-Mission-Past-Present-and-Future/ http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-on-Mars-A-tour-of-the-NASA-Jet-Propulsion-Lab Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-on-Mars-A-tour-of-the-NASA-Jet-Propulsion-Lab Nic Fillingham Nic Fillingham 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Channel-9-on-Mars-A-tour-of-the-NASA-Jet-Propulsion-Lab/RSS Mars NASA Robotics jpl Mars Gadget for Vista Sweet! Brandon just posted about the coolest little gadget I’ve seen in a while –the Mars weather gadget for Vista. Thanks to the Phoenix Mars Lander, this gadget displays the maximum and minimum daily temps on Mars as well as the Mars weather. Hint: It’s sunny a lot there. And for even more Mars fun, the Lander is also on Twitter so you can get quick and humorous updates from the mission throughout the day, like this:

mars_lander ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Mars-Gadget-for-Vista Sweet! Brandon just posted about the coolest little gadget I’ve seen in a while –the Mars weather gadget for Vista. Thanks to the Phoenix Mars Lander, this gadget displays the maximum and minimum daily temps on Mars as well as the Mars weather. Hint: It’s sunny a lot there. And for even more Mars fun, the Lander is also on Twitter so you can get quick and humorous updates from the mission throughout the day, like this: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Mars-Gadget-for-Vista Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:48:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Mars-Gadget-for-Vista Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Mars-Gadget-for-Vista/RSS gadget Gadgets Mars NASA Science Twitter Vista Windows Vista Sidebar