Sol 3600 right navcam pan:
The Sol 3600 Left Navcam view.
the surreal negative shading effect of filter 2 on the dusty little campfire ring rock garden from http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03601/1P447864799ESFCBBWP2548L2M1.html
These rocks look like ventifacts.
Curiosity might be getting all the attention but for me Opportunity remains the doyen of Mars rovers. Yet another change of scenery in the rock garden at McClure Beverlin West. Lithic breccia clasts eroding out of a sandy matrix?
Hey, when'd we drive to Gusev so fast? No one told me!
sol3609: its nice to finally get a peek over the top
The Navcam Lo view on sol 3608
I'm not sure exactly where we are, but I think this new view is just over a small ridge on Solander, and we can't yet see to the highest part of Solander, or beyond to Tribulation.
But we did see some real clouds tosol:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/rear_hazcam/2014-03-21/1R448668353EFFCBH2P1305R0M1.JPG?sol3610
For the complete view I have added the images from Sol 3607
to the panorama taken on Sol 3608.
Jan van Driel
Actuallly I'm willing to guess where we are - this is not based on data at all, I just stared at navcams and the orbital view for a bit:
Sol 3609 pancam pan (similar to jvandriel's pan but with one more image on the left side):
Right... that whole track needs to be shifted to the left about one diameter of that crater at the top left edge of the image.
Do we have enough images for a 360 pan from the recent stop at Augustine?
Phil
Here is the complete panoramic view from images taken on Sol 3607 and Sol 3608
with the L0 Navcam.
Jan van Driel
Fantastic - thanks. And with a little bit of geometric magic, it becomes a circular version of the area.
Phil
Power levels http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunityAll.html#sol3603 - that was a good level at the best part of this past summer!
I don't totally forget Opportunity, and I found myself processing this color panorama of Sol 3609
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3609_pancam.jpg
Spectacular! What a great place. That picture just makes me think I could walk right up to that ridge and peek over it. It seems that we have still not seen the layers under the impact ejecta that we saw at Cape York (Whitewater etc.) - obviously we were very lucky to find that exposure. But there's lots more crater rim to explore.
Phil
They identified those layers as the pre impact surface / sub surface, only a few metres above the Burns formation level, so I don't think we could reasonably expect to see it high on Solander. The interesting thing is that Larry Crumpler's LPSC paper identifies that the unconformity between impactites and the pre-impact surface had a dip of some 11 +/- 2 degrees towards the crater centre. This correlates quite nicely to Parker and Bills paper hypothesising that the bench does in fact reflect a previously level coastal geomorphology and there was subsequent tilting towards the crater. Circumstantial, but worthy of thought.
Sol 3613 Pancam panoramic Is that some crater we have behind the crest ?
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3613_pancam.jpg
Very nice mosaic Damia! Oppy is really doing mountain hiking
There is indeed what looks like a crater on the left part of your panorama. But I can't figure out where it is located on http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7790&view=findpost&p=208322.
Nice view indeed. I think this is the crater in question over the near crest:
I agree with that crater location. And it was only a small move, 3 m or so.
Phil
sort of interesting detail of "Turnagain Arm" back on sol 3598 makes me forget im not looking at a HiRise of kimberly
Any idea of what we are seeing West on the horizon ?
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03618/1N449387152EFFCC00P1777R0M1.html
Not sure about that... but we are about here at the moment.
Phil
Hi Bill,
Here is a Phil-O-Vision (10x stretch, vertical only) of that navcam 3618?
I don't know if we can see out across the plains yet but if so there is a candidate small crater in that general direction that is quite prominent. I gave it the nickname Rockaway when we first saw it. It does look darker than its distance suggests.
A little bogus-malogus colour image of Point Bede.
Phil
The 360 degree Navcam L0 panoramic view on Sol 3618.
Jan van Driel
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/sol/03621.html crosseye of biggest rocks Oppy has seen since......?
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/sol/03621.html
Some crazy-looking "raked" or washboard terrain from pre-drive 3621:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/pancam/2014-04-04/1P449640660ESFCC00P2560L5M1.JPG?sol3621
I assume we're just seeing lots of fine ripples perpendicular to the line of sight. The ripples are hardly visible in the corresponding navcam:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/n/3618/1N449386941EFFCC00P0673R0M1.JPG
That's the same nameless 5-10 metre crater we've been eyeing for some time now.
And now we're almost at 90% dust factor!
The cleanest panels since 2006!
From http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/rover-field-reports-from-mars.html
Very impressive!
As visible from following plots, in the last 5 years dust factor never went above 79.5% (record set on Sol 2313 or July 27, 2010):
But the path in question (path "A") stays away from the rough ridge of Solander and would probably be easy driving like out on the plains (and much easier than our climb up Solander so far). So that drive time sounds realistic, considering how fast we drove from Nobby's Head to Solander.
Of course in practice the limiting factor for the drive time will be the science stops.
I'm working on processing the color images for the deck pan, but here is an L4 mosaic of what I got sofar.
https://flic.kr/p/mS7vMN
Same view, in colors. Very good sighting there !
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3625_pancam.jpg
An interesting update from A. J. S Rayl.
http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/mer-updates/2014/03-mer-update-opportunity-powers-up-in-cook-haven.html
Is there a map of "the bench" referred to in the above article?
Almost finished with processing the color images that will be added to this but here is the L4 deckpan sofar.
https://flic.kr/p/mUWbd8
https://flic.kr/p/mVsP9dhttps://flic.kr/p/mVunTj
Really nice work James ! I didn't expect the solar panels to be so clean.
Opportunity: Doing 'selfies' since 2004
A long-awaited moment (by me at least) - Cape Tribulation viewed over the top of Murray Ridge:
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03630/1N450443541EFFCCJ3P1835L0M1.html
Phil
Long awaited by me as well. I'm looking out for another glimpse of the Miyamoto 'Mule Ears' off to the SSW. They were not visible in navcams before but we're a bit closer now. There are some camdidate bumps among the noise but nothinjg more so far. I'm hoping that the planned panorama from the local summit will be a full 360 and not just the view into the crater.
Yay! I was hoping that this drive would finally reveal it and there it is. Nice to see where we're going.
Panorama on Murray Ridge. Sol 3630. Navcam left.
https://flic.kr/p/mZi9cD
https://flic.kr/p/mZi9cD
Just wondering if any of our mapping gurus (Tesh, Phil etc) would be able to point to places on the horizon that would be headings for craters like Santa Maria, Victoria etc?
Not expecting them to be visible, just interested in directions.
Great pan, Dig - here's a circular view of it to help locate us on the hill.
Phil
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunityAll.html#sol3622
I wonder just how much more spectacular it could get ...
Sol 3633 Pancam panoramic. The view is astounding ! We can see Cape York there !
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3633_pancam.jpg
Nice, I love the tracks winding up the hill!
Pancam L7 panorama of the wheeltracks on Sol 3632.
Jan van Driel
Great view, Damia - here's a stretched perspective view of it to make it easier to identify things.
Phil
The ~absolutely gorgeous~ pic assembled by Ant103 in http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7790&view=findpost&p=208709 shows the crater I've always wanted to be named the Far Side Crater in honor of Gary Larsen. True?
Fun fact - I premiered a concerto for electronic keyboards and orchestra with the LA Phil in 1989. Someone taped this cartoon to the curtain where I was to pass thru to receive my soloist's applause. LOL
It's the higher crater, IIRC.
New pictures are down today, the occasion to complete the full panoramic over Endeavour crater
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3633_3634_pancam.jpg
Thank you James
The complete 360 degree Navcam L0 panoramic view taken on
Sol 3630 and Sol 3632.
Jan van Driel
My take sofar on the Endeavour Pan. There is a circular donut area on the left most part of the Pancam images that at leased for me isn't removable with current flat-fields unless however I brush them out. I have noticed this for quite awhile.
https://flic.kr/p/namSER
Now as I was hoping we see the horizon to westward included in the pan. I assume the blip near the middle of this image is the same feature discussed in posts 235-8 above but still awaiting firm ID.
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/pancam/2014-04-15/1P450891819EFFCCLCP2415L7M1.JPG
I see no very distant features here such as Bopolu or Miyamoto. Perhaps we're still not high enough even on this summit, or perhaps the air is just not clear enough at present.
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03635/1P450891393EFFCCLCP2415R1M1.html dune texture makes for interesting xeye
A circular semicircle from sol 3635, just west of the prominent crater at the top of the ridge.
Phil
Thanks Phil. From your circular pan we can now see that the blip on the horizon is on a bearing close to 241 degrees. This means it can't be 'Rockaway' which should be near 272 degrees. My best guess for the blip is now a crater about half the size of Victoria and about 15 km distant. If I'm matching up the contour map with CTX correctly that crater and 'Rockaway' are located on the same gentle N-S rise which I think forms our western skyline from this viewpoint.
@James : really nice colour mosaic! I'm looking forward to the final panorama
@atomoid : there is a really good 3D effect on your xeye particularly between the foreground and the background. I love these little dunes
I've been doing some minor fine tuning of control points in my rover deck pan template and I added the rest of the images. Still some fine tuning left to do. Here is the L4 mosaic. The JPL version looks great
Atomoid: That's the one I'm suggesting but I'm using nothing more sophisticated than a school protractor laid on my computer screen. I'm awaiting confirmation or just as likely correction by someone with better tools. I note that this crater has wind streaks extending southeastward from each side suggesting there is significant relief there. The larger crater farther east is more eroded and furthermore lies in a hollow so I don't expect to see it.
[Incidentally 'Rockaway' is not that crater but the much smaller fresh one that appears as a dark spot at the top of your image almost directly above the arrowed feature. If you're interested you can find its original ID in post 259 of 'Distant Vistas' and a good view of it from near Concepcion in post 201 of that same thread.] EDIT: And the contour map in post 123.
I really like this ripply landscape, believe it or not. Here's a circular version of Jan's nice panoramic view for sol 3637, and a map showing where we are.
Phil
Here is an enlarged crop showing the dark streak close to the horizon that I think may be part of the 'Victoria-twin' crater 8 km to the SW of us. I say part because the whole thing should subtend a horizontal angle of about 6 degrees or one-third of a pancam image.
selected ripply http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03637/1N451065275EFFCCMZP0725R0M1.html pair stereo. tried to make stereo pan but my tools (and chops) cant handle making the needed adjustments that work so well in http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7790&view=findpost&p=209086 fine work, im including sample at right below anyway if for no other than comedic purposes.
Here is an image of the objects on the WSW horizon.
It is from Pancam on sol 3635
I rotated the image 4.66 degrees CW to get the horizon level(ish).
I then used a high pass filter (line detector with 6 pixel radius) to accentuate the darks (darker) and brights (brighter) at the high frequency pixels on the horizon, and then stretch it vertically (Phil-O-Vision).
A histogram of a high pass filtered image is centered on DN 128 and is normal, with long tails
the object on the right looks like a crater
note the smaller (smaller? farther?) object on the left
The size you show for the crater is right, I think, for a 500m crater at 15km.
Regarding the smaller feature on the left, the topography suggests that it should be at a similar distance. There is indeed a smaller crater a bit to the east of the 500m one, as seen here, on a line with the 'Victoria-twin':
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20090318a/CTX_Mosaic_notext.tif
In colors
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3637_pancam.jpg
Checking in from the UK with a circular version of Jan's pan. I still haven't located it.
Phil
Got it - here we are, a big drive south. I only have a location, not a route.
Phil
Yep, that looks right. What a long drive!
Trying to find my way as a mountain hiker...
==> Dear Phil here are 2 pics :
- one taken far away at Sol 2295 and showing Murray Ridge : it appears as an elongated hill with 2 distinct summits, the 2nd being the highest :
Seems like the "winter haven" is behind us?
It looks like Opportunity is on the 1st summit on Sol 3641.
Jan van Driel
As Viking's first pic shows, the "first summit" is very broad and flat, but since we can see over it now it does look like we've crested it.
The "second summit" is along the clay signature we're headed for, and with these energy levels we could get there fast...
Here's a circular version of the 3641 mini-pan to show where we are, and a map showing the location (I am deliberately not drawing this up as a full map and putting it in the route map thread because I don't want to take over the 'official' Opportunity mapping)
Phil
Hi Phil or any other cartographer--could you post a larger context image of all of Murray Ridge or Murray Ridge and Tribulation (either here or in the map thread). In the map thread I went back a dozen or more pages and could not find a helpful context map. The map of the all of Endurance is too large--sorry to be picky.
Thanks in advance fredk [how did I know fredk would post--must be a time warp]
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17072 extends just a bit into Tribulation.
I'm sure this was posted here before, but as we get closer to the big clay signature it seemed worth a second look.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/gallery/pia13708.html
Also, one of many papers you get by searching the web for papers on the topic:
http://www.planetary.brown.edu/pdfs/3954.pdf
Very nice cloud sequence on 3640, eg
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/navcam/2014-04-23/1N451342424EDNCCQOP1567L0M1.JPG?sol3640
There are four good cloud images that piece together in pairs (I can't see the two pairs fit together). Definitely an advanced stitching job for our resident experts, considering cloud movement and stretching differences...
On another topic, http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mars-tau-b.html have plummetted down close to 0.2 recently, which is very low for this (or any) time of year. There's always some potential degeneracy with dust factor which relies on modelling to resolve, but still this is probably as good as it gets for imaging distant features.
Latest position and a reprojected pan originally from Charborob.
Phil
Doug - any chance you could point to your arc candidate on an image?
fredk: I would bet on tau retroactively jumping up within a week or so. The reported values are quite extraordinary.
I doubt it's a sun-dog/halo. Those are 22 degrees from the sun usually, and this looks to be at least one NavCam FOV (45 deg) from the sun
Simulations here http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/owmars.htm
More likely an internal reflection from the camera
Should a sundog be at the same elevation as the sun? Your feature appears to be a fair bit higher than the sun - I think most of the horizon in this view is the distant, true western horizon.
OK, kewl. I didn't have a really good way to measure the angular distance from the solar disc. Thanks for that.
-the other Doug (with my shield, not yet upon it)
You have to know that the bright cloud at the center of the image is not really bright, it's an artifact of fusion between frame during the export of the panoramic. It was pretty hard to stitch and to correct the exposure between frames. So the result may not be perfect .
Nice view of a ~100 metre crater out on the plains:
The new location on sol 3643. I call one crater X15, but I don't know which one it really is. This one is surrounded by blocks. Maybe it's really the more distant one indicated by Fredk. When I know I will fix the map if necessary.
Phil
nice crater view on sol3643, I don't see x15 in any3643 pancams but it may be the big smudge in this http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03642/1N451507552EFFCCV4P0734L0M1.html navcam before checking out the trampled ripples..
Here's a circular pan view of the 3644 location - between the two little craters on a north-south line on the map. The southern crater is seen in this view.
Phil
Nice work on the horizon feature and thanks for taking the trouble. There are only a few of us mad enough to care about such a small blip but I do like knowing how far away the horizon is! Quite close seems to be the answer. It should be easy to confirm your identification by the change in bearing as we move south.
Here is the complete 360 degree Navcam L0 panoramic view from Sol 3639.
Jan van Driel
One more crater ID - what appears to be a cluster of craters:
Here is the full L456 mosaic of Lunokhod 2 Crater (it's been a long time since I've done this, I'm rather out of practice!)
70 m drive on sol 3649 - here's a circular mini-pan (Navcams supplemented by one pancam)
Phil
Not to breaking the record specifically. Lunokhod 1 is just a short distance further north. My estimate is that there is about 3 km to go before a record can be claimed.
Phil
Quick circular pan - or a quarter of a pan anyway. I'm having trouble finding an exact location with such a small area.
EDIT - two more pics, now I can locate it. I replaced the earlier image with a larger circular pan, and here's the location.
Phil
http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/mer-updates/2014/04-mer-update-opportuniry-roves-next-to-clay-mine.html on planetery.org . Now I want a 3D printer..
There is a May 2 update at http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/rover-field-reports-from-mars.html (nmnaturalhistory.org) that has a nice oblique drive map, showing the path right up to the Al-OH area just ahead, and looking beyond to 'smectite valley' (probably not an official name).
The http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03650/1P452220988EFFCC%23%23P2426L7M1.html look intriguing.
Yeah, and that field notes blog says:
Some Navcam panorama I wanted to stitch, just for the beauty of the site
Sol 3643
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3643_pano.jpg
Sol 3649. Notice the pretty clean solar panels
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3649_pano.jpg
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3649_pano2.jpg
Great pans - and now we have new pictures from 3653, and we are on the rocks. Beautiful. Here's a quick circular view. I want to see a bit more before mapping a location.
The orientation is not correct (north-up), but I will fix it when I have more to go on.
Phil
Sol 3653 Navcan panoramic.
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3653_pano.jpg
WOW ! Thanks Phil, Charborob and Damia !
"Yum - yum" for all those rocks : this is all I can say !
This is indeed a brand new mission and it was worth the trip
My version. Opportunity Right Navcam Sol 3654
Increased slightly contrast to better see the details a little cleaning and denoise.
https://flic.kr/p/nvx1ox
Click on image for full size
And polar projection
The half-pans over the last two sols fit together to make a full one - here's a circular version giving a really clear view of where we are right now.
Phil
From my previous panorama, I tried to make a simulated composition including a 3D model of the rover. The orientation is not faithful. The rover size is based on the distance and spacing of the footprints in the ground for the placement of the vehicle and give an idea of the approximate scale in the context of the image. I also added a backlight to give a touch of drama to the image.
The post is not intended to be exactly realistic. It is only a test.
Anyway, I think it has been well enough to share it in the forum. Hope you like it.
https://db.tt/MIQ9qZpE
Click on image for full size or this https://db.tt/MIQ9qZpE
Nicely done Dig!
Did you make the 3D rover model if I may ask?
The Navcam images taken on Sol 3653 and Sol 3654 stitched together.
Jan van Driel
It looks like a sunset ND sequence:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/pancam/2014-05-07/1P452587488ESFCC__P2654L8M1.JPG?sol3654
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/pancam/2014-05-07/1P452588460ESFCC__P2654L8M1.JPG?sol3654
My take There is some clouds to the right part of the panoramic :
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3655_pano.jpg
This is a circular version of Damia's half pan from sol 3655.
Phil
The Pancam L2 and R2 view on Sol 3658 in Stereo.
Jan van Driel
Sol 3659 navcam pan:
Yes indeed, fantastic. I added the partial frame at the right end of your pan and made a circular version of it. Some little veins cutting the rock here and there. Also - where I think we are now.
Phil
More than just about anywhere else here at Meridiani (or even at Gusev or Gale), this area looks like it was a heavily populated block field which has been worn down to just the nubs of boulders after eons of wind erosion.
This appears to go beyond Steve Squyres' "dog's breakfast" of eroded, jumbled rocks. This area was a huge GIANT dog's breakfast...
-the other Doug (with my shield, not yet upon it)
My take on this pan, it's a wonderful view
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3659_pano.jpg
UPDATED
Indeed they do, although if this is uplift rim it is a little difficult to correlate to the contention that at the much lower Cape York Matijevic Formation, the contact represented the pre impact surface. Could we possibly be looking at an overturned rim here being the pre-Endeavour sub surface?
The view is superb and I love the contrast between the fall away into the crater to the East compared to the gentle Western slope of the Meridiani onlap.
Yes, a beautiful place, and that new full panorama is spectacular, Damia. Here's a circular version.
To me these rocks look like the impact breccias (AKA ejecta) on Cape York. There are lots of clasts embedded in the rocks right in front of us.
Phil
NPREVs point that the height difference is not all that great is well taken, however as Phil points out this is a clastic breccia, akin to the Cape York Shoemaker formation whereas the Matejevik original surface was fine grained. My query about potential overturned rim was prompted by a niggling question as to whether, given the low solubility of aluminium, there would be sufficient groundwater in the rim to enable aluminium hydroxide to form. If not then this could imply a pre-impact formation.
Doug--It is a real fight sometimes. Keep your shield up and know we are shoulder to shoulder with you.
Regards, Floyd
Sol 3633 & 3634 pancam panoramic, now in colors
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3633_3634_pancam.jpg
Beautiful Damia. The view from a height, combined with a bit of colour really helps put the crater and the encroachment of the sulphate sandstone into perspective. Cape York looked quite impressive from orbital images and towered over the landscape in initial DEM presented in this forum, but were it not for the bench one could easily overlook it in the panorama.
Thanks
Sol 3662 Navcam panoramic. A very neat place
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3662_pano.jpg
Phil checking in from Heathrow on my way to Washington ...
Fantastic views from up here! The view north to Cape York in the Pancam mosaic is the best yet, and gives us the best view ever of the subdued crater north of Cape York, known as Antares, even showing dunes on its floor. I won't show it here as I'm a bit limited in what I can do right now.
Phil
There are some large boulders down in the main crater floor below the far rim. I can't get a real sense of their scale from just gawking. Anyone have an idea just how big they are?
Sol 3663 pancam of the outcrops at the crest.
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3663_pancam.jpg
This location has been named Pillinger Point in the descriptions of the latest Pancam images. Nice!
Phil
In this image there is a bright smudge near the horizon directly above the rightmost end of Cape York. I don't see it in images from a few days ago:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/navcam/2014-05-17/1N453637490EFFCDAHP0783L0M1.JPG
Good eye. It does look like a gust.
Good identification, fredk, and I would refine it slightly based on some reprojections I played with, to these hills.
Phil
This is incredible - 761 Whrs and dust factor 0.964! From the latest http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunityAll.html#sol3657.
Wow!
Remarkable! And the further she climbs...
That is sparkly clean. They did not start publishing the dust factors until around sol 1776 but I would assume that it would have only been a matter of a few sols after landing before the dust factor dropped below this level.
So still in Eagle crater? Ah, the memories.
Now the question of whether to credit this to the Martian atmosphere, the mission planners, the local geology (for being so enticing), or all three...
Here is a segment of the Pillinger Point pan.
https://flic.kr/p/npsnbt
EDIT:
https://flic.kr/p/nptdcy
Thanks James for this beautiful mosaic! Now I have a new wallpaper
Thank you all for the comments!
Another segment.
https://flic.kr/p/nq1mDT
The black rock at the bottom right of James' mosaic intrigues me. What could be its composition?
I'm at work right now, so away from my home computer, but if I recall in the false color images, it was a bluish color. Usually but not always blue roughly translates to a basaltic in origin in the false color images. I'll have to make a false color version. But making any sort of mineral composition judgement from the raws I don't really like to do.
Here is a false color of that rock, it's actually pretty dark which in my opinion also looks a bit interesting, not just this particular rock but this whole site.
Really appreciate your treatments of the Pillinger Point views, thanks James...
Thank you
A screenshot of two of the 3 sections roughly positioned together in Photoshop before stitching together.
https://flic.kr/p/nqR32V
A screenshot of the false color version of this magnificent place
https://flic.kr/p/nJbaeg
Sol 3671 - Brushing and MIs at Pillinger Point.
GIF animation:
Good job! I don't mind at all, I'm just waiting for the rest of the images to arrive to complete it.
I suppose that Meridiani should be darker in colour but there certainly is a big difference the way MARS looks from pictures taken by Opportunity at Meridiani and Curiosity at Gale. I wonder how real that difference is!
I just want to say I'm not claiming of coarse that this is an accurate representation of the colors. For the Raw stretched JPG images, it's more of an art and a guessing game. There are several factors that contribute to the color difference, but I'd say roughly you should compare the colors of Gale with Spirit, or Mars Pathfinder landing sites. But I want to stress, use the calibrated PDS images if you want to do comparison work, not the raw images for MSL or MER.
This is a circular version of Charborob's new panorama. I fixed a few bad bits on the horizon - and missed one, I see now (Charborob, I think if you can get a tie point near the horizon in each seam you can avoid that step effect).
Anyhoo - this lets me identify the location accurately. Next week I will try to post a map of the activities in this area.
Phil
My version. Opportunity Navcam Right · Sol 3678
http://bit.ly/RPDjhN
OK! Sorry about that. I've never tried Photoshop for stitching.
Phil
Finally the last image came down just a little bit ago, now I present to you Pillinger Point and Endeavour Crater.
https://flic.kr/p/nNZrr9
http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/156060
False Color:
https://flic.kr/p/nyxfbH
http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/156061
What an awe-inspiring view! Thanks for assembling it, James.
Awesone James! Amazing landscape and wonderful colors.
Now I have a new wallpaper for my monitor.
Congratulations.
AJS Rayl has provided another information packed summary for Opportunity.
http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/mer-updates/2014/05-mer-update-opportunity-hunts-ancient-clays.html
Weird... the newest images include a target called Cape Upright... but the same name was used back on sol 3598.
Phil
A circular pan - made from Jan's latest panorama, sol 3684.
Phil
Creeping along the top of the ridge! Here's a circular view of Jan's pan just above. By com paring these with HiRISE I am mapping out the route - I will post something on it next week.
Phil
Nice! Here's a circular version of it which lets me find the location.
Phil
Quick and dirty noise subtraction from two of the transparency test frames:
Assuming the vertical streaks to be mostly stars, here a try to remove some of the noise from FredK's diff:
After more accurate combining of the three Sol 3697 nightshots:
Great! Here's a circular reprojection of it to help locate the rover.
Phil
JPL released their version of the Pillinger Pan!
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mer/pia18393/#.U6onf7EuLSg
note: I noticed a reddish cast to the black background which I assume is a color correction after merging the pan onto the background. For my viewing I just set the black point to the black background and that fixed that.
Nice to see, but are they not going to complete the panorama?
Not from there, anyway - they've moved on. There are lots of partial panoramas in the collection.
Phil
The view of Tribulation is starting to get spectacular as we approach the 2nd summit:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/pancam/2014-06-25/1P456930983EFFCE00P2439R1M1.JPG?sol3703
Hopefully a color Pancam pan will be taken soon.
Spectacular view coming up indeed.. since the MER thread has an 'unmanned' map thread these days, here's a blind stab at trying to get a fix on where we are... in the ballpark?
Yes, you're about right. I will post something when I have time.
Phil
I usually don't cross-post here, but I though this right Pancam view was just wonderful.
I agree! I'm gonna be working on that one next.
The Sol- 3700 3x1 mosaic
https://flic.kr/p/o7GXxq
This is Jan's panorama from sol 3701 in circular form to help locate the rover. I will update the route map soon.
Phil
Sol 3703 Pancam color pan. It truly is a wonderful landscape
http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Opportunity/2014/Sol3703_pancam.jpg
Wonderfull picture to permit us to have a great view of Mars' landscape.
Impressive "tooth" to our south (at the south end of the 2nd peak, I believe). Anaglyph:
It is an impressive sight, at least from this direction. Could somebody point to it on a HiRise crop?
EDIT Thanks for the post below - very helpful.
Can't wait to drive up to these beautiful Shark's Teeth. Notice the one on the right is about to exfoliate with another underneath.
June updated by A.J.S. Rayl: http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/mer-updates/2014/06-mer-update-opportunity-nears-end-of-murray-ridge.html
Oppy may have set the traverse record already, but they're still triple-checking before any big announcement....
the road behind and ahead http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/03711/1N457634077EFFCEE1P1825R0M1.html in crosseye
After another drive closer to the big tooth on 3713, the view of Tribulation is starting to open up:
Anaglyph:
Beautiful, Jan. Here is your full panorama from sol 3713 in circular form.
Phil
And this pair to the left of above came down in separate days, so that not everyone perhaps noticed it exist in stereo. Spectacular as well!
Today's shots are lovely. It occurs to me that if they do climb Cape Tribulation they should get a good look at Iazu to the south.
The Sol 3713 Pancam view in colour with some data missing.
Will be added later.
Jan van Driel
And a closeup of the black tusk, tweaked a bit to bring out some shadow detail.
Anaglyph:
Black Tusk - good name! Midnight Planets is calling it Fin - or is it just a fin? For people who don't know, Black Tusk is up in the mountains north of Vancouver.
I will update the Opportunity close-up map in a day or two.
PS - road trip update, I'm now in Victoria, BC, staying put for a few weeks except for a trip to Vancouver for the RASC talk. If Opportunity could drive like me we would be almost at Tharsis by now.
Phil
My take on the incredible view on Sol-3713.
https://flic.kr/p/og4DWe
Impressive drive on 3717 right up to the base of Black Tusk/Fin.
Anaglyph:
I thought we would spend some time at Fin - but it did look like more breccia.
Phil
I place the 3718 location here, based on some of the little ripples around us now:
You're right, fredk, and here's a circular projection of Jan's panorama to prove it.
Phil
So, do we know yet what route has been chosen to get to the "smectite valley"?
I think I saw something from L. Crumpler that indicates that Opportunity will be doing some hill climbing.
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