What is Image: Definition and 1000 Discussions

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a NASA Medium Explorers mission that studied the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind. It was believed lost but as of August 2018 might be recoverable. It was launched March 25, 2000 by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg AFB on a two-year mission. Almost six years later, it unexpectedly ceased operations in December 2005 during its extended mission and was declared lost. The spacecraft was part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connections Program, and during its run had over 400 research articles published in peer-reviewed journals using its data. It had special cameras that provided various breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of plasma around the Earth. The Principal Investigator was Jim Burch of the Southwest Research Institute.
In January 2018, an amateur satellite tracker found it to be transmitting some signals back to Earth. NASA made attempts to communicate with the spacecraft and determine its payload status, but has had to track down and adapt old hardware and software to the current systems. On February 25, contact with IMAGE was again lost only to be reestablished on March 4, 2018. The signal disappeared once again on August 5, 2018. Recovery efforts are underway and if successful NASA may decide to fund a restarted mission.

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  1. L

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  2. Dr Wu

    Microchip Imaging: What Magnification is Needed for Electron Microscopy?

    Assuming the use of an electron microscope, what magnification would be needed to image a computer microchip at the micrometer level? Thanks in advance.
  3. T

    I Help identifying this Tumbling object in a night sky photo from Namibia

    I have received this image from someone in Namibia recently at the Kiripotib Astrofarm. Has anyone an idea what could cause such a strange trajectory?
  4. T

    I How can tomographic image resolution be obtained using wifi sensing and imaging?

    hello i would like to ask how to obtain tomographic image resolutions from wifi sensing and imaging using signals processing. thanks very much.
  5. pinball1970

    B AI Enhanced image of M87 black hole

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc32d From the abstract, "We present a new reconstruction of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of the M87 black hole from the 2017 data set. We use PRIMO, a novel dictionary-learning-based algorithm that uses high-fidelity simulations...
  6. L

    B Does light ever go from the eye to the image?

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  7. sHatDowN

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  8. Salmone

    I How does an eye reconstruct an image?

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  9. anorlunda

    I JWST Image Reveals Processes Ejecting Material in Star Formation

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  10. M

    How could you see an image without photons? (imaging systems)

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  11. A

    I Image appears outside of q -- Lens Maker's Equation confusion

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  12. M

    React - load new image - error - part 2

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  13. M

    React - load new image - error

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  14. Aymangh994

    I Using simple lenses to image AFM Probes

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  15. Bob Walance

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  16. A

    Is this vector in the image of the matrix?

    Hello! I have this system here $$ \left[ \begin{matrix} -2 & 4 & \\\ 1 & -2 & {} \end{matrix} \right]x +\begin{pmatrix} 2 \\\ y \end{pmatrix}u $$ Now although the problem is for my control theory class,the background is completely math(as is 90% of control theory) Basically what I need to...
  17. L

    Image position and magnification for underwater spherical lens

    Using the data given and recalling that in this configuration ##R<0## I get: ##\frac{1.33}{0.5}+\frac{1.5}{q}=\frac{1.5-1.33}{-0.2}\Rightarrow q\approx -0.427 m=-42.7 cm## so the image is virtual and is ##42.7\ cm## to the left of vertex ##V##. The magnification is ##M=\frac{n_1 q}{n_2...
  18. B

    Understanding the Basics of FFT for Image Processing

    if you watch this Video : The Julia Programming Language at time marker 28:00, You will see that Grant takes an FFT of an Image. In order to do a FFT, you need to know the sampling rate, but what is the sampling rate of one image? And what if your image is not size 2^N ? Does the program just...
  19. N

    ART algorithm - Image Reconstruction

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  20. DhruvSorathiya

    I Could the Sun burn an image sensor of a star tracker in space?

    Hello, I have a question. If a star tracker in space faces the sun directly then could it be possible that the sun completely burns the image sensor? To be specific we are a student satellite team (Student satellite program IIT Bombay) developing a star tracker and we don't have an exact idea...
  21. rishurboi

    I Applications of Virtual objects

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  22. dom_quixote

    I Uncertainty in an experiment with an image viewed through a big slit

    This is a simple experiment that demonstrates how it is possible to draw conclusions similar to those of quantum physics, without having to "invade" the microscopic world. A student is led into a windowless room, which has only a slit in the ceiling. The light that passes through the slit is...
  23. cianfa72

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    Hi, I've a doubt about the definition of curve. A smooth curve in ##\mathbb R^2## is defined by the application ##\gamma : I \rightarrow \mathbb R^2##. Consider two maps ##\gamma## and ##\gamma'## that happen to have the same image (or trace) in ##\mathbb R^2##. At a given point on the...
  24. samy4408

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  25. A

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  26. Physics_learner

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  27. ergospherical

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  28. B

    Image processing with Sobel Edge detection

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  29. A

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  30. M

    Machine learning with image tracking of a line

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  31. pellis

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    On first coming across the Möbius-strip image of spinors, it seemed natural to interpret it as referring to the 3D space of everyday experience, especially as e.g. the Dirac belt and the Penrose book demonstrations appear to occur ‘naturally’ in the world of our phenomenal experience. Doubts...
  32. L

    Position of the image of an object placed in water

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  33. DMAJones

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  34. S

    Can twin cats have mirror image fur colors?

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  35. Mikkel

    Deep Learning for Image Recognition in Astrophysics

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  36. H

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  37. M

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  38. rinalai

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  39. Dario56

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  40. DaalChawal

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  41. dRic2

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  42. G

    A Image Method for B-Field Calculation on Iron Plate

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  43. A

    I Why do modern X ray images have better resolution compared to older ones?

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  44. Eclair_de_XII

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  45. S

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  46. M

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  47. B

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  48. M

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  49. N

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  50. Eclair_de_XII

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