Mastodawn

(11 Aug) Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes

“Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that’s no longer an assumption we can make.”…

“Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that’s no longer an assumption we can make.”…

Ars Technica

#Pandora's primary objective is to conduct a long baseline survey of transiting #exoplanets orbiting nearby stars with simultaneous #photometric and #spectroscopic observations in order to quantify and correct for #stellar #contamination in transmission spectra #ARC #GSFC #LLNL

SciTech Chronicles. . . .May 10th, 2025

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't Stop. It will soon be here Vol II No 34 320 links Curated Mission Control RSS Feed Wordpress SubS...

From 21 Feb: New imaging tool confirms female scribe etched her name in medieval manuscript - Enlarge / Bodleian MS. Selden Supra 30 open at pp. 18-19.John Barrett Jessica H... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-bodleian-uncovers-hidden-inscriptions-by-mysterious-medieval-woman-scribe/ #3d-imaging #archiox-project #bodleian-library #forensic-archaeology #gaming-&-culture #history #medieval-history #optics #photometric-stereo-recording #physics #science

Meet Selene, a new photometric stereo recording prototype. Think of it as 2.5D imaging.

Ars Technica

A massive joint #observation campaign is in preparation.

We are talking about a dozen high-precision #RadialVelocity instruments (blue), mounted on large (2m-10m) #telescopes + a dozen professional 1m-class #photometric telescopes (red) + hundreds of potential #citizen #scientists to observe altogether the same #exoplanet #transit...