I talked about the Rosetta swingby of Mars over the weekend, and the images that have been returned from it. Well, more are coming in! The European Space Agency just released a very cool animation of the martian moon Phobos moving across the face of Mars as seen by Rosetta.
Sorry, I don’t know how (or even if it’s possible) to embed an AVI file into the blog. So download it and take a look; it’s cool. On the ESA page linked above are other images of Mars, including an interesting (but not spectacular) 3D anaglyph (red/green) image of Mars.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Neat video. I guess I knew that Phobos was small, but that really puts it into perspective. Seems more like a large rock than a moon.
And, FYI: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3480061
That should show you how to embed an AVI in a web page.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:39 am
THats the shadow of phobos not phobos itself
February 27th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Just upload the avi file to YouTube, it should be able to handle them and then embed like the other videos you have done. If for some reason YouTube hates .avi files, use Windows Movie Maker to convert to wmv files and then upload to YouTube. I know that YouTube does except wmv files.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
The EMBED structure won’t work unless the reader has a plugin to view that type of file. That takes some overhead on my part. I thought about YouTube, but their resolution is so bad (and there are aspect ratio issues as well with them) that I decided just giving folks the link and letting them work it out is probably best.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
That’s no moon…
February 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
“Windows Media Player cannot play the file. One or more codecs required to play the file could not be found.”
What do I need to see this?
February 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Me, too…
“Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or a required codec might not be installed on your computer.”
February 27th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
It looks like you might need the DivX Decoder to view the file. You can get it from
http://www.divx.com//divx
Or, at least, you should be able to. It’s free to download, at least the free version is, er, free to download.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
All I get is a lime green rectangle with a Mars image for a single frame near the middle….not sure what that’s all about…
February 27th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Thanks, wwitzke!