When archiving becomes fun

For those who are not specializing in microparticles, their orbital dynamics and their detection, here are some archived files that may be of interest.

LDEF - THE MOVIE

This raytraced MPEG animation of LDEF in orbit was intended to display the time and orientation resolved impact history but never got finished. Since a lot of work has been spent on this project, it is included here.

MPEG players might be accessible through this link. An excellent DOS based MPEG player and bitmap file format converter is display.

I TOLD YOU THEY'RE CRATERS

Some stereoscopic red- and blue images (glasses needed) of very small impact features. These images actually do serve the purpose of learning more about crater morphology, but they are also just nice to look at. These craters were produced during hypervelocity impact experiments in the laboratory. They did not cause a discharge.

SPLASH! - AN ANIMATED ENCOUNTER WITH SURFACE CONTAMINATIONS

MPEG animation showing a threedimensional depth profile imaging analysis of a surface contaminant. It also shows the sputtering effect of SIMS analyses and the amount of material that is removed during such an analysis.

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Klaus G. Paul, x-x-1994