Its a work-in-progress . We're thinking of exploding beard-trimmers

Doug

Like I said -it appears the bluberries have re-appeared over 200 sols

Doug

Animated verison



Doug

Mine was taken WAYYY back out near Eagle crater - almost 90 degrees to this one. The black part you see in mine is essentialyl behind it from the view now

Doug

Strange isnt it - we go 100 million miles to another planet - and the most interesting bits are the ones we brought with us

Doug

No reason why they couldnt do the same again. Infact - given the fact that they have more power now - than they did during the transit from Eagle to End. - they could infact push for further.



See the straight drive in the blind - followed by the slightly wandering auto-nav drive

As for the heatshield itself - Spirits was seamingly intact - but broken (if that makes sense) - i.e. the pieces were all together, but it was no longer the right shape.

With opportunity - I dont THINK that's the case. It appears that one large piece is embedded to the left - and another piece closer to the impact







Who know WHAT we'll see when we get there - unlikely to be anything LIKE a flat reflecive surface left though -

Doug

Pah - bloody Pancam team with their ...their..COMPUTERS and their....SCIENCE

Astonishingly well stitched actually

Those little 'cracks' YRG - are just specularity - honest You can see them back at KSC in the pictures before they folded-em-up for the flight.

Doug

Can I just say - DAMN - this is one mystifying hell hole

Doug

Not cracks, just a combo of bad stitching and glare of the solar cell cover sheets being in a different place at the time each filter image was taken.

It'll be a long time till thats in published in the PDS - the middle of next year probably Only then can I do it 'properly' to stitch something more reasonable

Doug

I think it means crappy comms for the day? (i.e. fewer than usual UHF passes - or bad geometry on UHF passes)

Doug

FAR and away the hardest mosaic I've ever attempted



Not great- but fun.

Doug

Before anyone asks "why are they all 512 x 512" - it's most likely because pancam is quite out of focus at that sort of range ( 1-2m ) - so you dont drop any data by 2x2 binning them - but save a lot of bandwidth

And yes - I'm working on them as we speak. A very very difficult set of colour variations though

Doug

um - not got an IDD emoticon yet

Doug

That's just a single frame taken from further out

Doug

TECHnically - I paid for MEX - and thus, in some small way, paid for relay of a TINY ammount of MER data.



Doug

Damn right.

I almost feel like just giving the USA some money as a way of saying thankyou I feel guilty enjoying all this astonishing stuff - without having contributed

Doug

Heres where you want to look
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/Admin/reso...ms_cassini.html

Unfortunately - the schedule/plan for PDS release of data appears to not be available - so I have no idea when it should be released.

I think the usual delay is 6 - 12 months - but that would surely mean that Venus and Earth flyby imagery - not to mention the stunning Jupiter flyby imagery and other data sets should have been released some years ago!

Doug

20 gig's taken about 4 - 5 days.

Dont use L3,5,7 - use L456 if you can, if not, L256, or L457

I've been downloading using the 1meg connection at work, and my 512K connection at home

Doug

Starting 'properly' on the book - I now have both complete RAD archives from both rovers downloaded via FTP. About 20 gig alltogether

Doug

They're turned in place a little, I assume to do some idd work on the tracks to - as we've suggested - compare new with old.

Doug

Unfortunately - there isnt the same MER convention. They're just sequential numbers

However - on the page describing each frame is a descriptor

i.e.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...&storedQ=762004

Lots of piccies -all of the same thing - so you can guess, lots of different filters

What you WANT - is the ones with CL1 and RED, GRN and BL1

On that page - they start with the last one - and the first two of the following page...thus

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=29068

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=29067

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=29066

You often find that if there are a LOT of images of the same thing ( i.e. it's been taken thru lots of filters ) - if there ARE Red,Green and blue then they are often the 5th, 4th and 3rd from last of the sequence - or there abouts!

Doug

Of course you can - hell - you guys took the pictures I just piss about with them

New Dione image




Makes an interesting and exciting diversion from MER images It seems possible to get a LOT more information out of the cassini raw jpgs than the mer ones. Even when a cassini JPG appears totalyl whited out - using levels you can - more often than not - get something back.

Doug

The IR1 filter. It's not a perfect stitch - just rushed it together to have a look at the full picture I've deinterlaced all four images, and resized up the bottom right frame (didnt figure that that's what it needed ! works a treat though ) and thought I'd try using the same pan program I use for my MER pics - PTGui.

It works a TREAT!! I just set the f.o.v. of the lens to be 1 degree (I'm not sure what it actually is - but I figured that 1 degree is nominally very very small, and small enough to not inflict and sort of distortion on the image as one would at 16.6 or 45 like with MER ) At first try - it classified the control-point accuracy as 'too good to be true' at less than half a pixel I've never EVER had that with ANY other pan I've worked on, be it MER, MPF, or normal digi cam stuff from this planet

http://mer.rlproject.com/dione_dec15th2.jpg

Now THAT - is a perfect stitch


Doug

frost doesnt survive much past sunrise - that frost on Opportunity was at a colder time of year - and vanished within an hour.

That navcam image is mid afternoon

Doug