For those nostalgic for Martian exploration, here are two documents which retrace the Vikings, Pathfinder, MER, Phoenix and Curiosity missions on Martian soil. InSight, March 2020 Perseverance as well as the Chinese mission Tianwen-1 Zhùróng are in preparation for volume 2. I also plan to have volume 1 translated into English.
I am looking for a translator before publication in paper format at the end of the Curiosity mission. PDF files will remain free.
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Pour les nostalgiques de l'exploration martienne, voici deux documents qui retracent les missions Vikings, Pathfinder, MER, Phoenix et Curiosity sur le sol martien. InSight, Mars 2020 Perseverance ainsi que la mission chinoise Tianwen-1 Zhùróng sont en préparation pour le tome 2. J'ai également le projet de faire traduire en anglais le tome 1.
Je recherche un traducteur avant la publication en format papier à la fin de la mission de Curiosity. Les fichiers PDF resteront gratuits.
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New update Volume 1 : (01 september 2023)
- The Martian Panoramics - GEDIZ VALLIS CHANNEL
https://archive.org/details/les-panoramiques-martiens_202309
https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2023/07/24/les-panoramiques-martiens/
The chapter on Curiosity is not finished (abandonment of the project)
There are some corrections to be made to the chapter on Curiosity :
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8318
Topic moved from Spirit to Mars & Missions>Past and Future. Duplicate topic in Opportunity deleted; please do NOT do that.
I just discovered the book of Philip J. Stooke https://www.amazon.fr/International-Atlas-Mars-Exploration-Decades/dp/0521765536 ». It is really a great job for the history of the Martian missions. A great job and a great book to savor....
Edit and : The International Atlas of Mars Exploration: Volume 2, Philip J. Stooke, CUP 2014
Busy with Volume 3 now.
Phil
Thank you for the info, I can't wait !
Will you include the list of Sols for DD observation for mission ? (vikings, pathfinder, Mer and Curiosity) and a suggestion of daily rolling list greater than 100 meters (my obsession!)
A big thank you for your work.
Hi - sorry I did not see your earlier question until now.
The original plan was to complete Volume 3 in December 2022 and send it to the publisher. It would have been released in about December 2023 or early 2024. But work has gone slowly, partly because Perseverance has been so difficult to work with (no daily or weekly updates and still no science target identification in PDS). So I have been given an extra year. I will submit to the publisher at the end of 2023 and it will be published about a year after that.
I will not be including daily DD details, though they often get mentioned in the test for a given day. And I was not planning to tabulate long drives.
Phil
Following on from that, I found this:
https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/47103/CL%2319-7647.pdf
The Opportunity end of mission report. It includes some drive statistics. Lots of interesting material. If anyone has time to search for similar things for other missions, we might collect links here.
Phil
thank you Phil
New update with corrected errors for Curiosity (ex: mileage and others + addition)
- The Martian Panoramics - From Murray Buttes to Gediz Vallis :
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Nouvelle mise à jours avec les erreurs corrigées pour Curiosity (ex : kilomètrages et autres + ajout)
- Les Panoramiques Martiens - De Murray Buttes à Gediz Vallis :
Magnifique, Gilles!
John
Finally completed the chapter on Opportunity and the beginning of the chapter 'Gediz Vallis'
The Martian Panoramics - From Murray Buttes to Gediz Vallis (10-26-2022)
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Complété enfin le chapitre sur Opportunity et le début du chapitre 'Gediz Vallis'
Les Panoramiques Martiens - De Murray Buttes à Gediz Vallis (26-10-2022)
I retouched an image of Jan van Driel which I find superb, I hope he will like it. the original is here: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8695&st=345&p=258053&#entry258053
Also thank you for any suggestions for corrections.
You will find the last update of the document in the first post of this discussion (check the date)
Mars 360: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover - Sol 3684 (360 video 8K) - Andrew Bodrov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtDhZfw2FcM
NASA's Mars Exploration Program (360 video)
https://www.360cities.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=NASA%27s+Mars+Exploration+Program
Here is some related http://stevealbers.net/albers/viking.html pertaining to the Viking panoramas that I had a role in.
Thanks for your interest and info. These appear to be the noon mosaics from the VL2 Cameras, using a series of hi-res .04 degree pixel resolution images. They were taken during the mid-day period over multiple Sols. I'll check to see if I can dig out any info on the exact list of images for the version I worked on, though we could also deduce some of this from the PDS image catalog online (looking for NOON MOSAIC images).
https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/vlander/cumindex_vl2.html
Calvin Hamilton's version for VL2 made in 1997 is of pretty good quality resolution-wise, though it seems to filter out the azimuthal variation in brightness inherent to the scene I like to see from the other versions.
I would like to find information to correct and complete the table (see the document) on the daily bearing sessions greater than one hundred meters. Thanks
Daily_Rolling_Session_of_100_Meters_and_more.doc ( 189.5K )
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J'aimerais trouver des informations pour corriger et compléter le tableau (voir le document) sur les séances de roulements quotidien supérieur au cent mètres. Merci
Daily_Rolling_Session_of_100_Meters_and_more.doc ( 189.5K )
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I completed the table and updated the document in the previous post. A new update of the book is also available, see the first post of this dicsusion to download it.
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J'ai complété le tableau et mis à jour le document dans le poste précédent. Une nouvelle mise à jour du livre est également disponible, voir le premier poste de cette dicsusion pour le télécharger.
Curiosity's path between Sols 3200-3720
We see a fairly complex alternation of lithified layers depending on the elevation of Curiosity's route on the slopes of Mount Sharp with the first fifteen boreholes (in a later chapter I would like to make a second diagram with the rest of the boreholes, i.e. from 16 to . ..). We can observe an alternation of wet layer composed of Mudstone with drier sedimentary layers of origin of wind erosion (Stimson formation). I would like to complete the table below to trace this chronology according to the different geological eras, if anyone has additional information I am interested.
It will have in any event a third category to be placed under the Stimson formation of the diagram (lower part) according to the sulphate deposits found from Gediz Vallis
I made a new update of the document "Les Panoramiques Martiens" (2023-02-25).
https://ia601600.us.archive.org/13/items/les-panoramiques-martiens_20230225_2117/Les%20Panoramiques%20Martiens.pdf
I had abandoned the project in 2018 to resume it just last year. In the meantime, several sites on which I had based my distance calculations have disappeared, and I have therefore decided to resume all the calculations of distances traveled between the figures of each Curiosity panorama according to the standard of the NASA reference site. Everything is now as precise as possible, and it was a big job that is finally finished.
Where is Curiosity? ( https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/where-is-the-rover/ )
I also made several small corrections / deletions, including some daily rolling sessions greater than one hundred meters too much or imprecise, in fact the sites on which I used to base myself (enter 2012 to 2018) turned out to be too imprecise. I also corrected certain dates of events, added photos, modified/corrected several boards summarizing the route by stage of the rovers (MER and Curiosity), in addition to adding the beginning of the chapter 'GEDIZ VALLIS CHANNEL', etc.
You can find the link to download the document above or in the first post of this discussion.
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J'ai effectué une nouvelle mise à jour du document « Les Panoramiques Martiens » (2023-02-25).
https://ia601600.us.archive.org/13/items/les-panoramiques-martiens_20230225_2117/Les%20Panoramiques%20Martiens.pdf
J'avais abandonné le projet en 2018 pour le reprendre juste l'année dernière. Entre temps plusieurs sites sur lequel j'avais basé mes calcules de distance ont disparus, et j'ai donc décider de reprendre toutes les calcules de distances parcourus entre les figures de chaque panorama de Curiosity suivant la norme du site de référence de la Nasa. Tout y est maintenant le plus précis possible, et ce fut un gros travail qui est enfin terminé.
Where is Curiosity? ( https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/where-is-the-rover/ )
J'ai apporté aussi plusieurs petites corrections/suppressions, dont certaines séances de roulement quotidiens supérieurs au cent mètres en trop ou imprécis, en fait les sites sur lequel je me basais jadis (entrer 2012 à 2018) ce sont révélés êtres trop imprécis. J'ai également corrigé certaine date d'événements, ajouté des photos, modifié/corrigé plusieurs planches résumant le trajet par étape des rovers (MER et Curiosity), en plus de l'ajout du début du chapitre 'GEDIZ VALLIS CHANNEL', etc.
Vous pouvez retrouver le lien pour télécharger le document ci-haut ou dans le premier poste de cette discussion.
To not forget
A Guide to Gale Crater (2014-01-24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uAz82sH-E
Ref : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260122343_A_Habitable_Fluvio-Lacustrine_Environment_at_Yellowknife_Bay_Gale_Crater_Mars
Curiosity Rover Finds New Clues to Mars’ Watery Past (2023-02-8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuoR4XMmJO0
Ref : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-finds-surprise-clues-to-mars-watery-past
- The Curiosity Rover's Exploration of Glen Torridon, Gale Crater, Mars: An Overview of the Campaign and Scientific Results (26 juin 2022)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007185
- Mineralogy of Vera Rubin Ridge From the Mars Science Laboratory CheMin Instrument (24 June 2020)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JE006306
- Sedimentary Organics in Glen Torridon, Gale Crater, Mars: Results From the SAM Instrument Suite and Supporting Laboratory Analyses (12 September 2022)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE007107
- Geology and Stratigraphic Correlation of the Murray and Carolyn Shoemaker Formations Across the Glen Torridon Region, Gale Crater, Mars (12 September 2022)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007408
- Spectral Diversity of Rocks and Soils in Mastcam Observations Along the Curiosity Rover's Traverse in Gale Crater, Mars (08 August 2022)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE007134
I made a new update by correcting and adjusting the text according to the data I posted in the previous post. See the first post of this discussion to download the document.
Thank you, Gilles
I added a sky to the wonderful panorama of Jan van Driel from sol 3771
Mars 360: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover - Sol 3716 (360video 8K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_K1XHEYmY
Depositional and Diagenetic Processes of Martian Lacustrine Sediments as Revealed at Pahrump Hills by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, Gale Crater, Mars (18 April 2023)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007394
Mars 360: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover - Sol 3746 (360video 8K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_adSE1aeeg
Beautiful!
Phil
Thanks vikingmars
You can download the images on the rover tracks in high definition (.bmp) here :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19lMl1LiFApqiFlAS7f3cKXApoMUfozgf?usp=sharing
Let me know if the images are available.
I have also made a new update to the book which you can download in the first post of this thread. (10 juin 2023)
Mars 360: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover - Sol 3815 (360video 8K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJ3dHJPghc
Publications between 2008-2023 involving members of the MSL scientific team
Mars Science Laboratory Science Team Papers
https://mars.nasa.gov/internal_resources/840/
This is the biggest update made so far (August 20, 2023). I revisited in second reading all the chapters starting from the introduction until Opportunity, This is the verification and the final update for its chapters of the book, it will miss a last verification on the spelling that I will do before publication in paper form at the end of the Curiosity mission (for those who wish), and which will be at cost price only, the PDF file will remain free and accessible for all.
Its chapters have undergone a complete verification with additions and corrections based on several sources (see below) which has changed the formatting from the original version written for several years for certain chapters (10 years for some). Over the course of updates, omissions, bits of sentence that disappear have been detected and corrected (since the migration following the closure of the Google site which hosted the web version of the book, closure that I decided following to a conversion format incompatibility following the change of Google, and on which I relied for updates and corrections).
Philip J. Stook's book has been of great help to me in getting my coordination and history in sync, whom I greatly commend by the way for his tremendous work and persistence on the UMSF (Unmanned Space Flight) forum as well than Jan van Driel since 2004 and even before, and I don't forget the wonderful images of Damia Bouic, Thomas Appéré, James Sorenson, James Canvin, Olivier de Goursac, and Neville Tompson, as well as many others (bravo to all and thank you ).
Soon I will begin the final correction of Phoenix, and continue the updates for Curiosity until the end of its mission on Mars.
See the first post of this thread to download the document.
Source for verification:
- The International Atlas of Mars Exploration: Volume 2,
Philip J. Stooke, Cambridge University Press 2014
- Results From the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity Missions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9100.MERMISS1
-Mars Pathfinder
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/pathfinder/
- Viking 1 et 2
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/viking-1-2/
- Spirit Archive :
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_spirit_2004.html
- Opportunity Archive :
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunity.html
- The Planetary Society : Mars Exploration Rover (Emily Lakdawalla)
https://www.planetary.org/articles?keywords=mars-exploration-rovers
- Nirgal : From the Red Planet to the Origin of Life, Philippe Labro
http://www.nirgal.net/main.html
- Forun Unmanned SpaceFligth.com (MER rover talks)
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showforum=36
- First Results From The Phoenix Mission to Mars updated: 18 March 2018
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9100.PHOENIX2
- Mineralogical Investigation of Mg-Sulfate at the Canaima Drill Site, Gale Crater, Mars
For the first time on Mars, the crystalline magnesium-sulfate mineral starkeyite (MgSO4‧4H2O) was definitively identified using the CheMin X-ray diffraction instrument at Gale crater. At the Canaima drill site, starkeyite along with amorphous MgSO4‧nH2O are among the “polyhydrated Mg-sulfates” interpreted in orbital reflectance spectra. Mg-sulfates are good climate indicators as they are very responsive to changes in temperature and relative humidity. We hypothesize that, through evaporation, Mg-sulfates formed at the end of brine evolution when ion concentrations became saturated and precipitated on the surface or near sub-surface as either epsomite or meridianiite.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE008041
Results From Mars Pathfinder
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9100.RESPATH1
I plan to start volume 2 of the Martian Panoramics to include the Mars 2020 missions Perseverance, InSight and Zhurong. I am asking for your opinion on the subject to know if it would really be worth it to pursue these projects?
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J'ai le projet d'entamer le tome 2 des Panoramiques Martiens pour y inclure les missions de Mars 2020 Perseverance, InSight et Zhurong. Je demande votre point de vue sur le sujet pour savoir si cela en voudrait vraiment la peine de poursuivre se projets ?
Bonjour Gilles,
Je suis persuadé que les amoureux de l'exploration martienne seraient enchantés à pouvoir continuer de bénéficier du formidable travail que tu leur proposes.
Je me joins à Olivier pour t'en féliciter et t'adresse mes meilleurs voeux pour cette nouvelle année.
Thanks vikingmars and Quetzalcoatl
I found this arctic very good which sums up the 397 first Sol. (Abrasion and coring)
Overview and Results From the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover's First Science Campaign on the Jezero Crater Floor: 10 May 2023
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007613
Encore merci Gilles.
Mars Rover Perseverance : en Busca de Microbios Marcianos, Kenneth Farley, 23 mai 2024
https://joseoliverspace.webcindario.com/MarsRover2020.htm
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