No. HiRISE has a resolution of 25-30cm/pixel, and that's it.

Yes there would. Why would you invest the money on sending the same spacecraft to the same place with the same instruments?

Mars 6 is approx 1,500km to the SSW. Same story applies - it's two orders of magnitude further than any year of driving Opportunity has ever had.

You can see the landers and measure the distance between them yourself using Google Earth and switching to the Mars map.

No. Even in her most rapid of years - Opportunity covers, typically, about 10-15km/year. It's 2000km from Opportunity to Pathfinder - so it would take more than a century of driving.




I think you mis-read the press briefing. The plan was to send Sojourner on a long drive of around 50 meters around the lander - but not to the edge of the MPF landing ellipse. Sojourner's maximum theoretical radio range was about 500 meters - not the 30km+ to the edge of the MPF landing ellipse.
From https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/newspio/mpf/r...es/mpfover.html
The rover team had planned to send the rover on its longest journey yet -- a 50-meter (165-foot)clockwise stroll around the lander -- to perform a series of technology experiments and hazard avoidance exercises when the communications outage occurred. That excursion was never initiated once the rover's contingency software began operating.

Best I can offer is our New Horizons module for Eyes on the Solar System ( http://eyes.nasa.gov/pluto ) - we have the play by play by means of a predicted simulation.

You can do a lot lot better with stereo imaging that you could ever do with 40 flybys with a laser altimeter.

Source for this?

I don't see reflection between those two images.

I can't stand this shift to 'trendy' websites either....but I have had visibility into the process behind the redesign for many of JPLs pages...and I can tell you, the demand for it isn't coming from designers, it's coming from management.

And when it's winning awards all over the place - it's not going to go away any time soon : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4566

Spirit did similar observations... from http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_...projects_2.html
" These observations can be used for various scientific purposes. These include helping to validate the models and predictions for interplanetary meteor storms, providing information on the rate of impacts of small meteoroids with Mars for comparison with rates for the Earth and Moon, assessing the rate and intensity of cosmic ray impact events in the Martian environment, and looking at whether some bright stars are being dimmed occasionally by water ice or dust clouds occurring at night during different Martian seasons."

The accompanying press release text clearly states

"The images show the brightest spot and its companion clearly standing out against their darker surroundings......"

It isn't.

NO!

The Sun-Pluto-NH angle is approx 0.316 degrees currently.

It's one pixel - a bit of PSF - blown up massively. That is all.

Are you referring to when Spirit uncovered amorphous silica deposits near Home Plate?
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11758

Or simply imaging the area that the APXS was pressed into just a few minutes before

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/ra...206M_&s=955

No you don't. ISIS3 is also available for OSX.


meryon - if you're on a PC - you need to go IMG2PNG -> Photoshop. If you're on a Mac - then an ISIS3 pipeline is probably your best bet.

That is the prevailing hypothesis regarding the formation of Gale at this time.

Based on the trajectory data we've been given for Eyes on the Solar System.... single digit km's in altitude - 5km or so.

They're part of the image stream posted to the free 'Mars Images' app

The OSIRIS team will deliver when they deliver - the efficacy of data delivery agreements within ESA seems to be very poor.

I've said elsewhere - I'd be surprised if they delivered anything to the PSA in 2015.

Extraordinary stuff!

Theoretically possible to image it? Yes. MGS imaged MODY and MEX. I'm sure MRO could manage a similar stunt.

But we don't know where it is - so it's out of the question.

NAIF reports raw rover motion ( thus not accounting for slip ) at first until it's bundle adjusted and then it'll be normalized back to the 6m distance as I understand it.

Yes - any and all of those could cause its demise. The only certainty is that it will run out of prop eventually, and if another reaction wheel goes, that time frame is accelerated rapidly.

Entirely academic.... without UHF comms, the definition of 'functional' isn't really of merit.