The Analyst notebook format of putting out data is superb I'm a happy bunny

Doug

Yeah - the heatshield would be a very cool target, not just for engineering reasons - but also to see the hole it's dug

Doug

I cant possible see how it can get anywhere near burns cliff - and I thought the whole point of Karatepe was that it was the same geologic units as seen in burns cliff. You can follow the strata around the rim and that makes sense.

More suprises from mars it seems. The Arctic Islands seems like something I predicted a few days ago - driving down a little more and to the right to the little bits of rock near the beginning of the dunes.

What we really need is some more MOC imagery - we've not seen if they've caught an MER on the rove from Orbit yet
Doug

Isnt it odd - I'm the same - but it's the evidence that we've actually been there that I like the most.

The Lion King panorama was great - and I liked the pan I did about 20 sols out from Bonneville of the tracks curling thru the terrain.

I think a colour pan from Spirit looking back down on the distance out to bonneville some 2km away will be amazing, with the tracks just curving up at the foot of the hill

Doug

Any reason - best pictures, best science, best wow factor, best whatever - if you could have only one rover - which would it be

Doug

ROCK



Doug

thing is - dunes = very soft and dusty - whereas much of the rest of the crater is more like bedrock. I wouldnt want to drive this thing into the dunes - perhaps get a little closer - but certainly not into it

Doug

Was just about to post the same thing - a LOT futher into the crater

I think they're trying to get to the little outcropping just to the right of the dunes

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre...-B174R1_br2.jpg

Doug

And how it got there...

From This

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre...l178-A190R1.jpg

to this

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...00P1746L0M1.JPG

Arnt wheels cool

Doug

That they were crap, basically

Which was not a clever thing to say when the only chance of getting your payload to the surface is to do it yourself ( which he failed at ) or hitching a ride with the Americans.

Doug

Unfortunately, the BBC's science reporting skills are - uncharacteristically - very very poor, often innacurate, and resorts to sensationalizing issues. They do correct errors when they're told, but there are far too many to begin with.

Doug

I for one would much appreciate it. Just something that'd take all the imgs in a folder and PNG them would be perfection!!!

Doug

Helloooo - would you like to step into my office and tlel me how

Doug

Only problem is - that Gif or JPG - you're limited to 8bit greyscale data - and some of the images will be 12 bit Photoshop can handle 12 bit which is just SO frustrating -ARHSAghhgeghaheahfhgh

Surely someone should do an .img Photoshop importer

I think I might email Dr Parker again

Doug

I take it you used NasaView to read the img?

I must admit - it's so good to see un-butchered imagery

I'm very busy on a 3D project at the moment ( involving an electric land speed record attempt ) - but once the rush for that is over - i'll be looking at the raw imageyr properly

Doug

Nothing happens in those images - I really cant see what you're talking about.

Not to mention that all those images are taken within about 7 minutes of one another.

Doug

Zip seems dead.

I'll try again - what are you suggesting is causing these things you're seing?

Doug

Woo - and indeed yay I believe the first 30 sols is due 6 months after landing - which is right about now.

Now if only we had an IMG imported for Photoshop

Doug

Yeah - Registax still rocks for that ( and, amazingly, for super resolution imagery from the rovers )

Doug

AT LAST...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/08hstsoftware/

Doug

What are you trying to suggest then?

I see nothing 'untoward' as it were in this images. Wheels have run along the neigbouring rock - the edges have touched into the soil and moved things.

Doug

They get..umm. processed They have to be - most of the images taken are 12bit images - and a JPG can only be 8bit - so there HAS to be processing by default. That processing is done automatically I assume - and the algorythm for it is a bit stupid - it just takes the brightest thing in the scene and makes that white, and the darkest thing in the scene and makes that black - and interpolates ( badly ) inbetween.

If it was done more intelligently, we would see moon detail - I am sure. You dont build a multi-billion $ spacecraft, fly it billions of miles, and then get your exposures THAT wrong

Doug

It's the difference between a botched 8bit JPG, and a lovely 12bit PROPER raw image I guess

Doug

I certainly see the bottom half of what you're seing. It might be an altitude related thing - like the geologic version of a tree line perhaps? As to if it's going down in the middle, or up in the middle - well, bring on the radar

Doug