I've had another hack at it...


http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...ndSouthEast.jpg 2.3 Mb

Lots of visible seams, but I've given up trying to make them go away

Doug

Fixed the image link

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...BGP2403L7M1.JPG

Doug

If and when the Messenger data is on the PDS - I'll work it into a WMVHD movie if appropriate. I've been playing with MER imagery at 720p25 format, and it looks fab


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At this point - I'm going to register my objection to the use of the phrase "English Units" when describing feet, inches etc.

They are IMPERIAL units.

And you can be damn sure that there isnt an aerospace firm in the whole EU that would dream of using them for a second.

Of course, there is another form of units that NASA uses for describing things - it has 5 different units....Golf Cart, School Bus, 12 story building, Utah, and Continental United States. Anything space related can be expressed as fraction or number of one of these

Doug

Of course, we all know that that's complete rubbish - because people HERE were making composites from the raw imagery put on the DI website.

What he's moaning about is spectral data I assume. But that's just not something joe-public understands and is probably being held back for a Nature / Science special.

Doug

Well- Victoria Crater is about half that size

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You dont hang around at RSC do you?

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I cut my mosaic making teeth on images of Donington Park race circuit in Leicestershire

http://www.djellison.plus.com/don_pan/

Small price to pay for the safety of not having shouty subjects that needlessly stand out from the rest.

Doug

Only X15 crash I can think of is that landing crash where it split in two on landing - but I think the pilot was OK in that case.

I must admit- the X15's getting a LOT of my attention in Orbiter

Doug

Looks like they've sorted it chez-pancam
http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_...dependence.html

We've seen images of both moons crossing infront of the sun, and they'd be 5 pixels across - max.

Doug

The altenative being rover imortality

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Doesnt matter about the caps in the subject line - it atomatically removes excessive caps so people can do shouty subjects

Doug

"You could do like this onewith only ropes? "

Yes. You could replicate it on a piece of paper with a compass - you can replicated in a field with rope.

I'm going to give you a bit of a warning here - you're beginning to step into the anomalistic / kook regieme. I've only recently removed someones account for this - and I dont want to have to do it again. This is unmannedspaceflight.com - not cropcircles.com - please respect that.

Doug

We've seen lots of 'cack' on shots in the past. Sometimes the rover flatfields and darkfields the images - sometimes they ask it not to. There's certainly no evidence to suggest it's a real object.

Doug

You can have an accuracy as high as one can measure a piece of rope The techniques are very simple and very accurate.

Doug

I got my two copies a few days ago from the USA

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I've never seen them downlink a full res panorama so quickly. The mission success pan from Opportunity only took 2 days to take - but it was less than half as large data wise than this - and this is coming down in massive 100 Mbit chunks They must be getting excellent UHF coverage being sat on a hill

Doug

http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=17669

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has reached the summit of Husband Hill, part of the range the rover first observed on the distant horizon from its landing site in January 2004.

A news briefing Thursday, Sept. 1 at NASA Headquarters will reveal what Spirit is seeing as well as the current status and what we have learned from both Spirit and its twin, Opportunity. The briefing will begin at 1 p.m. EDT in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St. SW, Washington and will be carried live on NASA Television.

Briefing participants:

* Douglas McCuistion, NASA Mars Exploration Program Director, Science Mission Directorate, Washington

* Dr. Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator for Mars Exploration Rovers science payload, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

* Chris Leger, Rover Planner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.

* Jacob Matijevic, Mars Exploration Rover Engineering Team Chief, JPL

* Ray Arvidson, Deputy Principal Investigator for Mars Exploration Rovers science payload, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

NASA TV will provide question-and-answer capability from participating agency centers. Media interested in asking questions via phone during the briefing should call Grace Reardon on 202/358-0884, by noon EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 31, to receive instructions.

Sounds reasonable - if you consider the basaltic floor of gusev hiding all the 'good stuff' under metres of basalts - then an impact or volcanic event would bring it back to the surface or offer a window into it. The basic does look very diferent to everything else around.

The lander

Dont laugh -it's true.

Doug

Once it's on the ground, any remaining fuel would quickly freeze. From a systems point of view I'm not sure a hop is even possible, there are things you'd want to have bolted back down to the deck when you do it - and cant be 're-stowed' so would likely be broken under the force more engine activity ( met boom, SSI mast etc )


Doug

Reminds me of a worrying incident between Cook and Theisinger on the night of Spirits landing



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Oh MODY - some call it MO2k1- Mars Odyssey

Doug