Big Crater, then Twin Peaks, almost certainly. Spirit 2.0

Doug

Last year she downloaded, printed and built the paper MER model, but then went the extra mile, found an image of the back of the HGA, and added that - and put it on a cake, with Mars rocks etc THAT's dedication.

I'm rather lucky. She didn't mind me going all giggly-girly at seing the holder of the Diesel Land Speed Record ( www.jcbdieselmax.com ) at the Heritage Motor Museum today

Dan and Astro0 - seriously - Pink icing

Nice touch guys - and we can keep it for Jan 4th

Doug

Either rover is fine - I'm not fussy.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm very happy - Helen has got me a keepers experience at a nearby Zoo that specialises in Lemurs (my favourite animals). Very happy!

That's where Dan Crotty comes in - he's good at that

Dan - get to it !

Doug

And the Sol 30 Solstice image - not best pleased with colour on this one. I'll leave processing the full peter-pan to James

I love data. Sols 15 and 16 chunks of the Peter Pan

Yes I have. I'll tell you if it comes true in 12 months time

01747 p2286.06 27 0 27 0 1 55 pancam_albedo_pan_L1

Might well mean a coord campaign with MRO/MODY

Doug

Sol 2 mosaic - Just R A,B,C - very red. I think I prefer R ABC x R1.

Yes - in 6 months time when Dan's Calibrated pancam frames are in MMB

Doug

Two. And I only really like one of them.

When I used IMG2PNG the '1' stuff mosaics perfectly - it seems to be a true equivalent of the MER RAD images (as it should - I'm guessing the processing pipeline is essentially the same). The '0' stuff doesn't. Some frames match, some frames don't. I think the numbers reflect the level of processing.

The Level 1 folders also include a lot of extra processed image types - but I like to stick to the orig. RAD frames.

Doug

Using RAD's from http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/phoen.../browse/sol018/ (the phxssi_0xxx isn't, as far as I know, radiometrically calibrated)

Then using IMG2PNG (yes, it works !! ) with img2png *.img -r -s6

Then doing the downsampled R A,B,C - as a colour layer over the full res R1.

Result.

I didn't even bribe him. Honestly.

Send it my way - I'll fwd it on.

Go with the HRSC data instead, higher res than the MOLA data.

Doug

Affiliate links, much like the cafe press store - not worth the hassle. The phrase I like to use is 4/5ths of 7/8ths of F-all.

Direct donations are the UHF downlink to the other revenue streams X-Band DTE for MER.

And I'm now going to hang my head in shame at the worst space-geek analogy of all time.

Doug

The only significant force ( other than gravity) is the drag of the very very thin atmosphere at that altitude. And that only acts in the opposite direction of it's velocity - i.e. is just slows it down - it doesn't nudge it one way or the other.

Doug

I'll give this a free pass over the manned-spaceflight discussion ban as it is just about a spacecraft. I don't think the inclination is drifting at all. The inclination is the angle the orbit makes to the equator (roughly speaking)

Careful of the descriptions here - Orbital inclination is NOT changing by 4 degrees per day - that would involve a HUGE amount of energy - Changing Hubble to ISS like inclination involves many km/s of delta-V. Changing by 4 degrees would actually require a lot of energy.

Raoul - see http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ic=5688&hl=

.01 bar CO2 vs 1.5 bar N2 - there was a chap over at The Habitable Zone who was fairly convinced that Beagle looking more like a small Huygens than a small MPF was a recipe for high mach number problems.

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the data's so delightful.
Since there's 12 meg's to go
Let it snow let it snow let it snow.

Thanks for the update Alan ( and kudos to your Twitter feed - hopefully everyone here is tuned in )

Out of curiosity - what bit rate are you operating at out at 10+Au, and what's that telling you about post Pluto data rates?

Two things have always put an entry-phase burn-up top of my list of Beagle 2 failure modes. Firstly, the lack of any parachute visible in MOC imagery (which would be very very visible) - and secondly - the fact that the B2 shape was Huygens like rather than Viking like.

Doug