Pic from todays briefing: http://i.imgur.com/76icp.jpg

Just wow.

edit: on the site now: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4569

Fascinating talk, thank you very much for sharing, and for sharing the von Kármán Lecture Series in general.

I wonder if anyone has the slides with the potential traverse routes?

Also, would be nice to superimpose those potential traverse routes in Google Earth (Mars mode).

Ahh, yes, I had a brain fart, thought you did the whole thing. The slope map actually was showing for me without having to do anything special. I think the route you chose is quite plausible. I think that you were cheeky in a few places though (going through little sharp spots that are potentially risky)! See 137° 25' 7.47'' S, 4° 36' 56.41'' E for an example. Still I'm sure it took you quite a bit to make that track, it's attempting to follow a plausible track.

That's quite impressive. I particularly like that it uses the science targets from this presentation. Is this your work? If not may I ask for the source?

edit: found this part in the file: MSL Slope Map: MSL landing area Gale Crater; Slope Map from HiRISE/DTM images by JMKnapp; Adapted to GE by Eduardo Tesheiner

Thanks again for sharing.

Wonderful imipak, works here in the US. Adam Steltzner is an amazing guy. I really loved what he said at the post-landing panel. He really put things into perspective. When he said "A corner, a piece of humanity. Not the end all." I just beamed with pride at that humble display.

Anyway, this may have been posted before but NPR did an awesome article on Adam Steltzner which is much more comprehensive.

Todd Halvorson asked a question about whether they can do "other things" while the software update was happening and Mike Malin says to Mike Watkins at the end of that Q&A that, "We are going to have a downlink, aren't we, through that?" (Verbatim.) Mike Watkins nods. Malin tries to state to the announcer that this will be the case, but he's not aggressive enough and they go on to the next question. So as far as I understand the upgrade will not completely interrupt all other activities.

Hope you don't mind, I just threw some quick coloring in there just to get a feel for what it will look like.



May I ask what you used to stitch? I spent far too long trying to figure out Hugin...

Ha! SFJCody you're my hero anyway, glad someone was doing all the hard guesswork.

Perhaps it updates every hour or something. Still it was a nice surprise.

Here's a (really crummy) colorize attempt: http://i.imgur.com/qZBQx.jpg

Might try a bit later to make something pretty. I remember someone here did an amazing Pathfinder colorize pano way back when.

BTW, marsophile, Doug posted a link to Space Multimedia but NASA has been very quick at putting up the conferences on YouTube. I'd recommend getting jdownloader and copying the link, it lets you download the conference in 720p.

Very cool, that was the next thing I was going to try but I was trying to write a script to do it for me.

Is someone harvesting these to post to another site? I seem to recall that being done with MER. Nevermind, I was told elsewhere, was thinking of LyleSearch.

It looks like all the images are not yet showing up on the Sol 0 raws page.

But you can get them by going here and adding 1 to the number ending at "I1_DXXX.jpg"

edit: looks like it doesn't start getting interesting until frame 26, just to save anyone time who wants to do this.

Haha, Stu, viewing the thumbnail I thought those were spider monsters from Resistance: Rise of Man (it's a videogame). I know, I'm a geek. But that was cute.

One might see the dirt on the DVD as a good thing. Protecting it from UV rays would potentially prolong its life. It may actually work if they still have DVD players around in 2020.

Anyway, does anyone happen to have the link to the page where the guy renames the images from the Phoenix website to their product IDs, and zips them up? I'm going to make my own script but I want to catch up. edit: got it, thanks for the PM!

ugorden, and yes, ever since Sol 7 (when the website got hacked) they have been duplicated for some reason (you can do an md5 on similar looking images in sequential order and they're identical). I'm sure they'll work out the reasons for that in due time.

vikingmars, that is amazing! Cudos to you. Well done!

Hey Zeehond, I could have made it wrong, but they had stereo images plus a green filter too, so I added it. Quasi-color stereo image, like in those old Viking books I used to read when I was a kid. I was the only kid in our small town library to ever check them out. Maybe I'm just able to see into these sorts of images but it works just fine with me with blue/red lenses.

Quite enjoying the rawness of these new images! Makes me feel like I'm in command with everyone else trying to figure everything out.

Anyway, pull out your 3D glasses and enjoy this stereo image I chopped together. Brought back many memories. http://i30.tinypic.com/102pb35.jpg

Hey guys, as you might know a lot of the color images that came down last night weren't full resolution, so they suffered a bit for it, but I played around a bit and with slinted's suggestions came up with these pretty images: http://picasaweb.google.com/joshcryer/MarsPhoenixLander/

Anyway, I just wanted to return some appreciation for all the hard work everyone in the enthusiast and professional community puts in. I'll be updating that album within a few minutes of them being uploaded on the site. I hope to improve my knowledge of this field considerably more!

Take care all.

PS I know the skies are wrong in my images, don't shoot me!