10 years. 10 YEARS. TEN YEARS!!!!
A decade of exploration to celebrate with the Mars Exploration Rovers.
Ten years ago an incredible little adventurer with indomitable 'spirit' landed in Gusev Crater.
Thought that some may enjoy a themed desktop to commemorate the milestone.
http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/events/roverparty/
Remembering Spirit with one of mars stu's wonderful pieces of prose http://astropoetry.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/journeys-end/
Here's the spaceflightnow.com feed, for anyone else feeling nostalgic (read bottom to top):
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status3.html
In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images, every Pancam color image from Landing day to the last color image. Opportunity's is on the way. There is plenty of room for improvement. Enjoy!
http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/index.php/Spirit
10th Anniversary event at the Smithsonian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMl7Q0KHcQ4
Around 39 minutes in, lots of details about public outreach and indirect mentions of UMSF.
My tribute to the anniversary
Sol 2001. West Valley, the unreachable land, at dawn. Made with PDS datas.
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/2014/01/14/spirit-sur-mars-10-ans-hommage-en-carte-postale-sol-2001/
Beautiful Damia.
That image suddenly generated some dust in the room and my eyes are mysteriously watering.
Beautiful, haunting... a place now so familiar to us...
I've dreamt of walking that bit...
Thanks for the moment Damia!
Thank you for these very touching comments
I had to do the colorized version
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sol2001_Pancam_PDS_postcard_coloized_web.jpg
...and Don Davis fulfilled my dreams !
Here is the FANTASTIC Spirit panorama he colorized, based on Damia's mosaic and just put online by Emily !
Congratulations to both of you !
Remembering Sol 2169.
February 8, 2010. Spirit turns her wheels for the last time.
12 years ago today (Feb 10, 2004) Spirit took this picture:
A model of Spirit's final stop, compiled with HiRISE DTM & multiple texture passes.
https://skfb.ly/PKWX
Thankee!
Marathon Valley was my first stab at this HiRISE malarkey, check it out at the Sketchfab link in my sig.
I will investigate this super resolution HiRISE Home Plate you speak of... I may already have seen it given I reviewed all the HiRISE data I could find. Its important to use the correct satellite image that fits the DTM otherwise there is a lot of warping and hardly anything matches.
Many thanks for that link Sittingduck... I did read an article a while back about the process and was suitably wowed... now after reading the paper I'm even more impressed. I'm wondering if there is a portal through which I can access their output? Once they get GPU's involved they will be flying through the data!
I hadn't considered exaggerating the terrain, it would be trivial to do however, so I will include that in the next batch.
There are a number of considerations when building these assets for Sketchfab...mesh fidelity, polycount, texture size etc so I will probably revisit something like Home Plate for a more localized attempt when I have refined the process somewhat. Thanks for your interest and suggestions.
It's so rare for anybody to show more than a passing interest in academic work that you'll find scientists and engineers are mostly very responsive to email inquiries about their work. There's a corresponding author listed on every paper; it's worth just contacting them to ask politely for what you need.
A mosaic of Spirit's final resting place:
Click thru for video...
https://flic.kr/p/SiRASr
Blended 3 layers of 2 HRSC & 1 HiRISE datasets.
Inspirational!
Congratulations Sean.
Hmm... isn't HP starboard side of the Rover? Spirit: gone but not forgotten.
Is the position correct? I have her facing back toward Husband Hill.
In Post # 20 I see her with the IDD and PMA facing toward the viewer and HP to the left (Port) side of the vehicle. The last know vehicle e Yaw is 310. Position seems to be correct, but the vehicle as I see it in that picture seems to be 180/deg from what telemetry tells me. I hope I'm not confused.
Paolo
Looks like a fly-in from the North rather than from the South. The large crater Thira being opposite of what a fly-in from the south gave that away for me.
Very nice by the way Sean
So Nice Sean!
And if Spirit is no longer around, Paolo is. Hi Paolo.
Looking again, the animation seems to have the rover at the correct heading, but to my eye the screenshot on Post #20 it looks as it the rover is pointed South-ish?
Paolo
Ah, the rover position in post 20 is incorrect. I made this when I was still a rover baby and did insufficient research.
The animation is a proof of concept for the workflow...the approach from the north was used to disguise a big gap in south approach coverage.
Got it. I was beginning to doubt my eyes! Thanks for the flyover. Can you pick her up, dust her off and hit ctrl-alt-delete? ;-)
Paolo
I made another short video of a navcam 3D model colorized with pancam images. This time of Spirit's "Seminole" panorama location.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRApZ7KO1W0
Preview image attached.
Happy Landing Anniversary Spirit !!!
Your Sol 001 Images
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_f001.html
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_r001.html
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_n001.html
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_p001.html
He is our old friend.
https://twitter.com/haygenwarren/status/1400804401422405633?s=21
Picture taken April 2021 by HiRISE
Fascinating... doesn't it look dusty?
Not the slightest glint of shiny metal.
Happy 20th landing anniversary dear Spirit : https://plus.nasa.gov/video/jpl-and-the-space-age-landing-on-mars/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAhistory&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=259008353
here is an adaptive upscaling of Spirit from the April 2021 HiRise:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8179&st=150&p=254340&#entry254340
Happy 20th landing anniversary to the rover and her team. May there be boots to pay their respects on site asap.
Spirit and Opportunity raw images and day-to-day reports have disappeared too!
Here is the link to the raw images now:
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/resources/?types=images&content_list=true
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