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July 03, 2005
First Deep Impact Pictures
Live from Tempel 1, here are the first images of the impact.
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Deep Impact A Success!
Judging by the wild cheering and debris-obstructed pictures just moments ago on the NASA TV webcast, the Deep Impact mission was a complete success. NASA is still collecting data, but already has enough to provide significant new information about the nature of comets and the universe itself. The impact itself was quite impressive, with an even larger explosion than originally predicted.
Posted by Alan Joyce at 11:19 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tagging Photos With GPS Coordinates...The Easy Way
I always thought it was hopeless to even try attaching lat/lon coordinates to photos without a proper digital camera gps attachment, but thankfully Phillip Torrone of Make: Magazine has proved me wrong and successfully used Google Maps to do the exact same thing. Check it out:
Here's the simple, non-techy way of tagging photos with the location of where you took them on planet Earth. There are lots of ways to do this, and I'll write about those later- but this is a fun thing to do over the holiday weekend. As an added bonus, I'll show you how to see your photos on a cool Mapping application called Mappr, as well as Google Earth...
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