Stormy Sea of Sand: The Sol 1190 MC100 42 frame dune detail set with its hypnotic array of backlit ripples and crests. The detail, delicacy, and complexity of Martian dune rippling is utterly fascinating. The MC34 counterpart of the anaglyph was resized up to MC 100 resolution to preserve full resolution detail in the right channel. Would be awesome to see a dedicated full res MC100 left channel (sigh). C' est la vie....

MC100 - 2D - Click thumb for half sized version at 11,458 x 1,519 pixels - (3.6MB)
Full Resolution version at 22,916 x 3,037 pixels (zipped) is here: Sol1190-MC100-Dunes-Detail-22916x3037px.zip (11.5MB)


MC34 / MC100 - ANAGLYPH - Click thumb for half sized version at 11,458 x 1,519 pixels - (4.5MB)
Full Resolution version at 22,916 x 3,037 pixels (zipped) is here: Sol1190-MC34-MC100-Dunes-Detail-22916x3037px-Anaglyph.zip (13.2MB)


(Personal Note: Hi all. It's been 2 years this week since I posted last due to work, family, and domestic changes, but I've checked in as time has allowed. It's good to see so many of the veterans still here along with the extremely talented array of newcomers sharing so many beautiful contributions. Still a Mastcam anaglyph buff, I'll keep on the lookout for good 3D opportunities and post when I can. Couldn't resist the one above. Merry Christmas everyone!)

Edit: James and eliBonara... Awesome jobs on the 1197 MC34 pano. I putzed with it a bit and got a hard taste of how challenging the disparate exposure values and projection challenges were first hand. Beautiful work. Thanks.

Sol 494 - Navcam 360 Degree Anaglyph...



...and another 2-D NLB view...

Sol 485 - 3-frame Navcam foreground anaglyph...

Long Baseline MC34 Anaglyph...

Taking a que from Dilo's stereogram, here's an all MC34 anaglyph view comprised of the Sol 437 and Sol 468 panos. Baseline is about 275 meters. The focal point is on or about the base of the foothills but with such a wide baseline, pulling in the the flats and mesa's in the closer dune field foreground area requires a bit of eye adjustment but it's easily doable without a great deal of eye strain if one focuses on the foothills first and slowly moves their focus closer.

These stereo views seemed to go better in this thread than anywhere else. The slight axial tilt of the camera during the MAHLI surveys allows for a reasonably robust stereo image of the center wheels on either side. Here are a few recent views (with brightness levels bumped in a few to bring out some detail in the shadows) ...

...from Sol 476:




...and from Sol 472:




(..and not to beat a dead topic, I personally think the wheels will be just fine even with a great number of holes - they have huge built in "JPL" holes - so it's hard to imagine enough damage to seriously impact the rover's mobility...)

Sol 474 - 360 Degree Navcam Anaglyph (bottom cropped)...



Can't see that large crater just a few meters off to the SE yet due to what appears to be it's slightly elevated western rim, but it'd sure be nice to mosey over there and get a view of it. Especially that picturesque dune field on it's floor...

2-D View - (NLB - full frame)...

Sol 468 - MC34 - 360 Panorama is now complete...

Click thumb for a Quarter Sized Version (at 7500 x 2194 pixels - 3.49MB):


...The Full Resolution version came in at a bit over 32,000 pixels in width. Here's a near Full Resolution at a whopping 29,999 x 8,774 pixels (had to reduced the width slightly for some Photoshop handling)....

>>>> 35.51MB Zip File: Sol468-MC34-360-Degree-Panorama-29999x8774px.zip

Sol 470 - Nine Frame Navcam Anaglyph...



Personal Note: An unusually brisk period of business and family related activitities has kept me from posting much of anything the last few months but I've been keeping abreast of things as time allows and enjoying the posts and graphics from everyone here at the forum. As usual, excellent work from all! Finally had a few moments to knock out an anaglyph from yestersol's position. Looks like some rough country ahead...

Sol 402 thru 404 Navcam 270's...

I prefer to hold out for 360's (full 12 frame sets) before rendering, but when the trend is toward "9 frames down - then move on" as of lately, I'll just get the 270's up without further ado, as below:

Sol 402:

2-D (NRB):


Anaglyph:


Sol 403:

2-D (NRB):


Anaglyph:


Sol 404:

2-D (NRB):


Anaglyph:

Sol 396 - Navcam 360's...

2-D (full frame - NRB):


Anaglyph: (bottom cropped):


Really loving the nice clear skies of late.

Gave it my best shot but... looks like a no go on the The Long Baseline Sol 388 / 389 MC 100 combo...

Seems a 25 meter baseline for something as as close as the basin makes a full width panoramic anaglyph darn near impossible. Too dang close. Placing the channel focal point on any particular feature does allow for a reasonably good view of the feature itself and it's immediate surroundings, but the channel separation to almost anything increasingly farther or nearer spreads the channels so radically (within a relatively short distance) that holding focus becomes all but impossible. And forget about zooming in. I thought about skewing the channels laterally to try and narrow the separation but perspective goes wonky and the baseline-to-target angles vary so widely across the field that any consistency is out of the question. C'est la vie.

That said - having both channels as layers in Photoshop and moving them around to center the focus on various parts of the panorama results in some shockingly deep perspectives but one must remained pretty well zoomed out so as not to lose focus.

Here are two examples - (view them well zoomed out) -:

Example 1 - Focus is on a rock pile at lower center of frame:


Example 2 - Focus is on another rock pile at lower center of frame:


Radical ay? The panos were stunningly captured...

Here are the Full Resolution 2-D Versions (similarly projected, but not anaglyph aligned):

Sol 388 (Full Resolution - 25,356 x 2183 pixels):


Sol 389 (Full Resolution - 25,400 x 2274 pixels):


Now if we could just get a stereo match for this here puppy, we'd be stylin'...
...first climb out of Darwin perhaps, at an 80 meter baseline and I'd buy the first round for everyone...

Sol 387 - MC 100 - 9 Frame Pano -(Full Resolution - 9,772 x 1431):

Views from Sol 392....

The Big Rock at the edge of the nearby outcrop - looks to be a conglomerate in origin - but it sure appears to have endured some kind of "torture" during its lifetime...

Big Rock - MC100:


Big Rock - MC34/MC100 Anaglyph:


and BTW... Who left this old "sponge" laying around?

Sol 392 - Navcam 360's...

2-D (full frame):


Anaglyph (full frame this time) - Wanted to keep this one full frame too if possible as there's some really interesting stuff in the foreground. Some of the alignments at the bottom rendered out irreconcilably misaligned though - c'est la vie:


Sol 390 - MC 34 - 10-Frame Panorama - Nice color view of the immediate area...


(All the frames for the Sol 390 Navcam Pano came in too but it's only a few meters from this position and I only had the time to get to these...)

Sol 390 ...this one offers a good perspective of the downhill movement. A bit softer softer ground in that sandy hollow to be sure...

Anaglyph:


X-Eye:

Indeed. The time of day difference for shadow matching was my first concern about that - but lo and behold - it looks like there's another set coming in from Sol 389 that matches the time of day of that first Sol 388 set. We've only gotten a few all MC 100 stereo landscapes in the whole mission so really looking forward to that when all the frames are in...

In the meantime, even with one pesky MC100 still missing I couldn't resist putting these together. Here's the Sol 388 MC look at the basin and dune fields beyond in the second pano taken late in the afternoon. There's so many interesting things to discover in this one single pano... I don't even know where to start...

Sol 388 - MC 100 - 2D -

Click thumb for Half Sized version - 12,802 x 1,181 pixels- 3.87MB
The Full Resolution version at 25,614 x 2,362 - 13.31MB is HERE.

Sol 388 - MC 34/MC100 Anaglyph -

Click thumb for Half Sized version - 12,802 x 1,181 pixels- 4.93MB
The Full Resolution version at 25,614 x 2,362 - 17.10MB is HERE.

And for good measure the Sol 388 MC 34 standalone full resolution pano (with a slightly wider field of view) at 9,588 x 870 pixels - 2.30MB:

Sol 385 & 388 Navcam 360's...

The slightly elevated position of MSL on both these Sols offer excellent views of the entire horizon. Just above the UHF antenna in the Sol 385 panos the rover's tracks are visible dozens of meters back descending and disappearing into the small depression to the north before climbing onto the rise we're on, offering a good idea of the terrain scale in that direction and the distance traveled on the long Sol 385 drive. They're still just barely discernible a bit to the right of the antenna in the Sol 388 panos too.

Sol 385 2-D (NLB - full frame):


Sol 385 Anaglyph (bottom cropped):


Sol 388 2-D (NLB -full frame):


Sol 388 Anaglyph (bottom cropped):

Sol 387...

Eight frame MC 34/100 pano from Sol 387 looking SSW to SW (centered about 216 degrees). Nice view of that small flat mesa that presides over the NW rim of the basin and the light toned outcrops beneath it. Looks like we moved 26 meters in that direction today. HIRISE images show this small rise to be dotted with several small craters, and one can be seen quite well in the anaglyph on the far right side of its flat top just before it slopes away to the north.

MC 100:


Anaglyph:

Sol 385 - MC34 - 5 Frame Panorama of the "Basin"...

Full Resolution 5766 x 1305 Pixels:


...and a reduced resolution version with a few quick geologic correlations between the map (flipped with south as up) and the panorama...

Sol 385 - Basin dead ahead - and I'll be doggone. What a nice drive. Judging from the position on Joe's Map then we ought to be overlooking the big basin, and sure enough - it's dead ahead and completely visible below us. Even from this distance the geology down there looks pretty interesting. The anaglyph really shows off the elevation drop ahead...

Sol 385 - 2-D full frame NRB:


Sol 385 - Anaglyph bottom cropped:


...and mhoward - placing the MC's over the Navs and tracing that path - nicely done.

Closing in on "Waypoint #1"...

According to JPL's recently published Route Map we should now be some 300 meters or so away from the first geologic waypoint. The green triangle identifying it on their map is centered just to the west of the large depression at the bottom of the maps below (Phil's "Outcrop 1"). Here's a full resolution anaglyph (and reduced resolution cross-eye version) covering the terrain between our current position and the waypoint area. Though I added color, the anaglyph has not been reduced from the 29cm per pixel HIRISE JP2 master. The cross eye version has been reduced to about about 50cm per pixel. As Emily had pondered a while ago, I wonder which of the several bright outcrops in this area they'll be focusing on? There are two distinct light toned features to the west and NW of the depression. Perhaps one of those? There looks to be some really interesting geology in the depression too, and given the stereo elevation is slightly exaggerated, it looks like there might be few theoretically "safe" paths into it as well.
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Anaglyph - 2064 x 2292 pixels:


X-Eye Version - 1169 x 915 pixels:


Edit: ...and for good measure here's a slightly higher resolution cross-eye version close-up of the waypoint area only (1800 x 743 pixels). Should be a about 35cm per pixel I figure....

Sol 383 - Navcam 360's...

2-D (full frame NRB)...


Anaglyph (bottom cropped)...


This was a challenging set of images. The low sun angle is really great to see, but recovering the detail from the extremely dark sun facing frames was tricky without completely washing out the crater rim. Hopefully these strike a decent balance.

Mt. Sharp - Full Res Anaglyph - 14,800 x 1,200 pixels

This is probably the best I've seen of the upper mountain yet in 3-D. Sky's are reasonably clear, the separation baseline is good and wide, and the almost identical angle of morning light between sols adds lots of nice contrasts. (Would love to have an MC 100 pairing of this kind sometime.)



Left Channel: MC 34 , Sol 364
Right Channel: MC 34, Sol 375
Separation Baseline: Approx. 300 Meters

Sol 378 - Navcam 360's...

2-D (full frame):


Anaglyph (bottom cropped):

Going Even Deeper on Mt. Sharp... (oh my!)

The morning sun angle from the Sol 364 MC 34 panorama of Mt. Sharp was finally repeated with the Sol 375 pano making for some dramatic detail for another deep stereo dive into Mt. Sharp, and an unusually immersive one at that! Some of the Sol 375 images are still out as of this post so here's a preview of just the right side of the mountain from matching frames that are in. The baseline differential is approximately 300 meters. Will knock out the full mountain when additional frames are in.

Default Anaglyph:


Detail Enhanced Anaglyph:


A Cross-Eye Version Cropped & Slightly Enhanced... cross-eye example of what combining any matching frames of Mt. Sharp from the Sol 364 & 375 panos can achieve for those without anaglyph glasses (just place the Sol 364 shots on the right side). Yeah baby.


Edit: Full Mt. Sharp version now posted here.

Sol 377 - Navcam 360's. Nice shot of the tracks in this set - curving back through a sandy hollow, over some bumpy terrain, and out the other side...

2-D (full frame):


Anaglyph (bottom cropped):