Red Poker is the target she has just been looking at (she backed up a bit before taking the image to get a better view).

Tick Bush is where she drove to, ~4.5m away

I suspect Steve was making a joke about the progression 2005, 2010, 2020... (somewhat apt with post 1111!) maybe a or similar would have been in order.

Even at the Earth's poles you are still only the tiniest fraction of a degree above or below the ecliptic.

Without some complex calculation the Earth ground tracks have very little connection to a solar orbit. Certainly not enough to say anything by eyeballing it.

An intriguing and tantalising snippit:

I can't quite beleve we are talking about this again nearly a decade later, but that 'hotspot' is the opposition surge with the shadow of Oppy's parachute near the centre.

Right on the edge of Cape York now, Nobby's Head/Sutherland Point ahead.

http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/im...UP0723R0M1.html

And ~95m more tosol (3310)

No, I wouldn't be concerned.

Yes there is a bit of damage, yes there will be 10x as much when we get to Mt Sharp, but the wheels will still be fine to drive on, this was expected.

And a further 80m tosol (3309)

Holy Cow!

Great work Phil.

I don't think there is any reason to be worried at this point.

I know we're all in withdrawal but hang in there folks, I'm sure we'll get our fix soon.

I've always said that I've never seen a good colourlsed Mars surface image; I can't anymore, that one is unbelievably amazing work.

Whoh! That is a truly unbelivable image. Amazing work Bjorn.

E = Product type. E = 'normal', I = Thumbnail, + a whole load of others for uncompressed, focus stacks, etc.

Number is a version number, i.e. if more data arrived for a procuct a new version is made.



That is the sequence ID, all images taken together as part of one sequence share the same number.

Allen Chen tweeted this yesterday:



https://twitter.com/icancallubetty/status/281827909415620608

Yes, that is (just about, as of a couple of days ago) all that have been downlinked so far. And yes, there are loads more thumbnails, so there is much more to come.



I have not adjusted the postition of the wrap boundary at all, doing anything with this much data is a click into the unknown. It is essentially centred on the first image taken. There are a number of boundaries where images are taken at very different times which made the matching a bit of a headache at times! I will use this version to refine my next. This was mainly a first attempt to see it I could actually handle this much data (success!) there will be more refinements as more data comes in.

BTW, for those zooming in, I have noticed the black dots/line across the middle. I think this is a bug/limitation in Enblend with very large images. I may try to complile a newer version, I'm using the old version that comes with Hugin for OSX. Failing that I need to find a way of editing it out (or find or write a new blender)

371 images (so far!), 21144 control points and many, many hours of processing time on my 5 year old computer.

Gigapan: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/118482

James

That is the REMS UV sensor


From http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/REMS/

And don't forget about Spirit! She crossed tracks that were over 1000 sols old on a number of occasions.

Almost exactly 1 (Earth) year ago.

Sol 64 mastcam100 panorama. What an unbelievable place this is!

The sol 50 MR mosaic is very incomplete - but with that horizon view who could resist!



Click for size options including zoomify and a (quite frankly ridiculous) 42520 pixel (~180 degree) wide, full resolution version.

James

Glad you like it. I'm steadly trying to simplify/automate the production of my mosaics including making the zoomify version, they make a lot of sense for huge mastcam pans and are much better for browsing on a tablet. And yes, anaglyphs should work fine.

J

My version of the sol 54 MR mosaic, full resolution. Edit: Added Zoomify version



Am I right in thinking that this is Glenelg? The three units being the foreground, background and the wedge of bedrock (high TI unit) coming in from the left. The actual triple point being a bit right/up from centre?

Whitewater Lake (used all 6 L filters for better colour and to reduce artefacts)