I know this picture doesnt look like much. It's grainy, it's bleached out quite a bit

But you owe it to yourselves to look at that picture, and think.

There is a rover climbing a hill on mars.

Isnt that amazing?

If you think hard enough - you can actually imagine being there. Walking with a rover, that we sent half a billion km's to a whole other world.

Sometimes, an image will just catch me off guard and I'll go "wow - LOOK at what we can do!"

Doug

Ahh - I asked if they could do a streaming one, and they said no a while back

Now..the man from KSC..he say YES:)

Doug

There was a max limit on attachment size, because people were using the place as a file-library.

I've lifted it up to 1 meg.

Doug

ERmmm..

NEAR - http://near.jhuapl.edu/Images/.Anim.html
specifically - http://near.jhuapl.edu/Voyage/img/earth_swby_lg.mpg


Galileo
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/earthmoon-all.cfm


Took 60 seconds to find them

Doug

Lots of pics at KSC - these are all 500kb+


http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1433.jpg
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1432.jpg
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1431.jpg
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1430.jpg
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1429.jpg
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1428.jpg
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/05pd1427.jpg

Doug

Galileo and NEAR both did it - producing movies of the flybys by the time they'd finished

Doug

They do a mix of forward and backward driving, it's to keep the cogs well greased.

Doug

Wow - big beast isnt it!

Doug

Yup - looks like a DD - they dont usually need processing to be seen, just processing to be seen in as much of their glory as navcam captured

Doug

THANK YOU for all the attachments - I got to see them last night - It's BIG isnt it - almost the size of large outerplanets craft

Doug

Restricted sols are an every-now-and-again thing, not a "rover off for 9 days" type thing

They mean that the rover can do stuff, but just nothing that requires people in the loop. It could spend the whole day doing a full remote-obs day or something like that

Doug

It's not a matter of people working at night - it's simply that the planning team involves the scientists and engineers, and for more than a year, they've been working from their home institutions on a normal work schedule. You just can not maintain mars-time for a prolonged period - it will burn you out.

Doug

I'm setting off for a weekend away in a few minutes Wont get to see it get bolted on - be sure to save and attach lots of piccies for me

Doug

It's a good laugh watching it - pity they wont put a webfeed on for it instead of sequential stills

Evidently MRO is shy about getting dressed..

I think that's the big cover that seems to hang above anything they move around with the crane, which I previously mistook for a fat-guys shirt.

Doug

They've certainly made more progress 'around' than 'up' - but they're still making good progress 'up' all the same

Doug

Sleepy Hollow, Middle Ground, Laguna Hollow - we've seen (and investigated) them before

Doug

They are amazing!!!

Doug

Think something could be done with a DS2 type mass/volume budget?

Doug

I think my brains frazzled, I couldnt spot yestersols drive distance, and I cant for the life of me line up nav/pan features with S311 imagery at all

Doug

Allow me to go..AH HAAAAAAAAA



Right - so we've got two ref points now - drive distance coming up

Range 15.1m and size 14cm pre-drive
Range 9.7m and 15cm post drive

Drive distance, actually only around 6m

Thanks for finding some common features - I was a little lost there!

I'm away over the weekend, probably off line.

Doug

Well - the MEX data is slowly getting put in an online archive, but my GOD it's awkward to use.

Doug

It shows the comparative 'resolving power' quite well though

ESA is quite shocking really - it's beginning to gte annoying.

Doug

I've tried to, but cant find common features from yestersols imagery and tosols post-drive imagery Either means quite a big drive ( 30-50m+ ) or they pulled a blinder and did something shocking, like..turn left

Doug

a 1 gramme clod at 11000 m/s is like a car hitting something at 30 mph or a Mach 1.5 golf ball

Doug

Well - they had a sol off it seems, and now had a drive sol today - although I'm struggling to line up pre-drive and post-drive imaging to find a common feature - looks like a slight turn up to the left though - and quite a climb

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/re...GZP1312L0M1.JPG