We’re probably parked here for some time....then heading back SE. Lucky escape.

How's the map.

Ummmmm. About another 15m due north of the current location. SorryNotSorry.

You intentionally target missions away from Mars so the upper stage has a tiny chance of - over 50 years - hitting the planet. You then use TCM 1 to tidy that up and put the spacecraft on a trajectory to intercept the planet. Upper stages are just not cleared for planetary protection.

I had a go at generating another structure from motion of the workspace after the Sol 577 Workspace Survey

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/insight-sol...ae1d41096e31e5c

The Verge did a great article about hunting for them in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3uNcJh4pc

It has a hangar. The footage released of thermal testing shows the cover in place. https://vimeo.com/381357280 ( 11 minutes in )

Hangar gets dropped. Rover drives on leaving it behind. Helicopter gets deployed.

Everyone I’ve heard say it says Green Hue.

That's the MAHLI cover closing at the end of the selfie.

You’ve done a great job getting the stretched feel out of those Navcams! Bravo!

It was a lot of fun planning that movie - we’ve been thinking about it since November. It really shows how cunning the arm motion is to rotate MAHLI around is fixed space to get such a perfect stitch of the selfie.

Just a regular solar filter sunset tau - that's the actual solar disk setting behind the rim of gale crater.

A 4x1 to fill in that gap on the horizon should come down Friday. It's been driving me mad.

Took the Sol 420 IDC images and was able to extract a 3D model from them...

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/insight-hp3...281e93d4d8b42d7

Yup - this actual arm was destined to deploy Marie Curie on the surface at Meridiani Planum before the '01 lander was cancelled.

So - I went thru every pan number there is for the rover, opened the label file for the first image listed and pulled out the start time, lat and long, and the X, Y, Z from the lander.

While other data sets do have some points at Pan numbers not listed below....they do not have the Lander frame X,Y,Z data
Zipped up XLSX attached, as well as a crude X vs Y scatter plot.


Pan Start Time Rover Longitude Rover Latitude Lander X Lander Y Lander Z
1 2019-01-04T04:15:18.011Z 177.599017 -45.44502 -1.759764 -12.692296 -0.834688
2 2019-01-10T21:11:29.451Z 177.598821 -45.444298 -5.91543 9.126358 -0.088721
3 2019-01-12T10:08:36.801Z 177.598632 -45.444101 -9.922689 15.07963 -0.429371
5 2019-01-31T17:25:22.255Z 177.598225 -45.443865 -18.552117 22.211425 -0.146258
6 2019-02-01T14:23:58.141Z 177.597694 -45.443521 -29.810781 32.606861 -0.249397
7 2019-02-08T20:45:47.117Z 177.59707 -45.443625 -43.041079 29.463715 -0.726265
9 2019-02-09T14:48:29.173Z 177.596713 -45.444048 -50.610007 16.680557 -0.230944
10 2019-02-11T02:59:33.023Z 177.596055 -45.443988 -64.561216 18.49327 -0.386951
11 2019-02-28T08:15:19.262Z 177.596055 -45.443988 -64.561216 18.49327 -0.386956
18 2019-03-03T07:24:14.968Z 177.595598 -45.444084 -74.250569 15.591778 -0.483145
19 2019-03-10T02:17:34.646Z 177.595597 -45.444073 -74.27177 15.924191 -0.830961
20 2019-03-10T15:11:37.602Z 177.595189 -45.444017 -82.922409 17.616099 -0.72672
21 2019-03-11T19:21:06.350Z 177.594663 -45.443716 -94.075368 26.711671 -0.401053
22 2019-03-12T07:54:14.510Z 177.594439 -45.443621 -98.824882 29.582277 -0.504348
30 2019-04-01T07:21:17.218Z 177.594177 -45.443472 -104.380201 34.084686 -0.722461
32 2019-04-11T02:06:15.518Z 177.593814 -45.443491 -112.076686 33.51002 -0.819108
33 2019-04-29T14:37:38.249Z 177.593636 -45.443368 -115.85098 37.226793 -1.013572
34 2019-05-01T03:04:12.505Z 177.593599 -45.443429 -116.63537 35.383341 -0.715814
35 2019-05-08T02:32:58.229Z 177.593603 -45.443427 -116.55055 35.443782 -0.925472
38 2019-05-10T10:01:15.233Z 177.593479 -45.443385 -119.179746 36.712826 -1.08647
42 2019-05-30T12:42:26.488Z 177.593088 -45.443538 -127.469635 32.088611 -0.784407
43 2019-06-09T02:41:56.276Z 177.592582 -45.443543 -138.198076 31.936669 -1.151678
44 2019-06-28T04:13:46.863Z 177.592056 -45.443531 -149.350636 32.298365 -1.162575
47 2019-07-06T11:30:53.779Z 177.591667 -45.443557 -157.598359 31.511912 -1.044718
48 2019-07-08T04:33:58.347Z 177.591486 -45.443507 -161.436147 33.022538 -1.172553
50 2019-07-29T01:18:59.329Z 177.590606 -45.443137 -180.095548 44.20197 -1.333302
53 2019-08-06T11:34:52.535Z 177.59065 -45.443311 -179.162096 38.943837 -1.152623
60 2019-08-27T09:42:41.591Z 177.590575 -45.443274 -180.75239 40.061796 -1.34759
67 2019-09-05T07:18:18.365Z 177.590437 -45.44312 -183.678869 44.715327 -1.204995
76 2019-09-25T03:18:38.935Z 177.590256 -45.443022 -187.516844 47.676434 -1.551671
92 2019-10-25T05:31:54.960Z 177.589671 -45.442755 -199.921397 55.7437 -1.410534
94 2019-11-03T01:21:53.512Z 177.589142 -45.442875 -211.137216 52.115973 -1.607826
95 2019-11-23T09:18:29.232Z 177.588667 -45.442573 -221.209778 61.241073 -1.127004
97 2019-12-02T05:21:08.786Z 177.588335 -45.442877 -228.247941 52.05335 -0.883405


I've also added a few more panoramas to the gallery including this one of Pan 0060 - probably the best of the 'gel' crater - https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-ptMhv5d/A

Agisoft was able to extract a good model - https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/change-4-yu...f5679e069263852

I don't see DEMs in the release. I've tried some photogrammetry with the images with very very mixed results

Pan 10
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/change-4-yu...38c0f4cecab14ab

Pan 18
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/change-4-yu...a86461b3c3728bd

Pan 22
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/change-4-yu...578d458f0c84130

Yeah - the area around Pan 50 - the 'gel' crater - they certainly approach it a few times... https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-H7Zxsqr/A

What you can try is seeding Hugin with pointing info from the PDS labels.

There are some gaps in the numbers....but here's what there was

Pan 38
https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-4CGVmKJ/A

Pan 42
https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-6V8tN8w/A

Pan 43
https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-MTfQQVJ/A

Pan 47
https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-Cx9z5NN/A (Pan)

https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-9Bwk8mC/A (Polar)

Pan 92
https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-ddLRMKL/A

Ooooo - do the NavCams from the evening of Sol 2417

Is there a gap in the panorama numbers that would be a helpful panorama, Phil?

Did a lot of processing last night - and tweeted out a thread on how to process the images as well

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/12133264...shed=1578189033

This 6 frame mosaic from site 48 is probably my favorite.
https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-hgFGNnh/A

So this mosaic from July 29th 2019 is maybe the glass?

https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-Dsn3GTd/A

I can see why it got their attention, but oh boy was that a case of lost in translation.

WOAH....this is the first thing I could download and generate....just the first 6 images from the rover panoramic camera data.

Heads up - download the label AND the product.... and then open the label using the PDS4 viewer here : http://sbndev.astro.umd.edu/wiki/PDS4_Viewer

Straight up stitch, and debayered stitch attached.

(I'm dumping stuff here as I process it : https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Change-4-Yutu-2/i-SsB4MDr )