I Just had to log in again this morning as well. Using the same www.unman... as I always have.

I've never had much of a problem with 'view new posts': open them all in new tabs then click 'mark all posts as read and return to index'.

James

EDIT: No delay in getting this post posted - very quick.

Ooh, I'm liking that one Doug.

I've (kind of) got something working to correct for dust on the lens, still a lot of work to be done, not far past 'proof of concept' at the moment. I'm reposting the sol 1291 both because even my current crude routine improves the mosaic a lot and also, by some fluke this process has also outputted (to my eye) a much more pleasing colour.



Right, must dash, going away for the weekend...

James

Sounds good. I wasn't so keen on tosols dish, I prefer mine unfractured!

Because of Iapetus I still haven't got a dust compensation flat fielding routine up and running, so this isn't great.

It is however our first view taken from inside Victoria and shows (I think) a good part of the ground the Oppy will be driving over on this first decent.



James

Now we're on our way in a new thread seems in order.

Posts related to the entry moved to Paolo's Plunge

There is a 1km scale bar on the images - longest dimension is about 1km

You know, I think we may have gone further in than the tracks suggest. The tracks end where the surface transitions to rock and so Oppy could have gone further without making any (hazcam visible) tracks.

The tracking database suggests that Oppy backed up ~3.8m, that's over twice her length, out from inside Victoria (and about 70cm vertical decent/ascent). This could be inaccurate if there had been much slippage but it doesn't look that way to me as both the in and out data are consistent.

EDIT: A quick bit of photogrammetry seems to confirm this, objects are about 3m closer in the mid-drive pancams than in the end of drive navcams.

Oppy really did go right into Victoria!

Take that Cassini!

James

Ah that's how it goes. I assumed I fitted somewhere but these shadows on this topography does my head in.

Here is a quick context image for these new ridge NAC's



First time I've done anything with Cassini data.

James

These ones http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/N00091847.jpg and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/N00091851.jpg are a close up of the ridge. It matches the center of the NAC image.

James

Not an issue, particularly with Mars and Saturn not being close together (~90 degrees) on the sky at the moment.

Figures are at the end of the preprint - see Figure 2, page 22.

I think your right Tesh.

This line is telling:



A colour pancam mosaic mid-drive, very unusual.

Looks like we are going to see a repeat of sol 133 at Endurance; get all six wheels in, take some pictures, then back right out again.

Hold on to your seats...

Yes, it is too late, 1339 is way too late! (I hope...)

I think we'll be in well before then.

Driving planned for 1289...

James

Use The GIMP - nothing cheaper than free.

James

The L257 Duck bay image from yestersol (B1281)



As fredk pointed out, we have a dark band on the right edge of the left pancam probably due to dust. I'll need some new code to deal with the lower contrast in this area and so the mosaic is not great. I don't have the time to work on the problem at the moment so this'll have to do.

James

It's now the afternoon of B1282 and so Oppy outlives Viking 2 as well.

Roll on A1774/B1754 (I think) to break the combined sols mark.

James

I don't know if this is old news but I didn't know about it.

If you get the latest Google earth app, you can look up at the night sky as well as down at the earth. I've only played around with it for a few minutes but it seems pretty neat.

http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

James

The bright stripe looks like a satellite to me, the rest could just be optical artifacts of it.

Thanks for bringing that up again Fred, I missed it due to my travels, and somethings are not to be missed. How bizarre.

James

Well then you were told wrong.

James (from Milton Keynes and proud of it)

2245

Still a way to go...

Ha! I admit didn't remember the exact number of sols off hand so i looked on Wikipedia. I then went back and looked at what reference they had, only to find it links to a UMSF thread, where I gave the answer last time!

Yep that seems to have worked, lots of nice colour images of Eagle crater being generated as I type.

Thanks for finding the time to look at 1.x again, until I have the money to get a new Mac, Linux and MMBv1 are all have (unless you count the extreme option of booting Windows, but that's bad for my heath.)

Cheers,

James

Good point, it probably is a Java issue - I seem to remember having a few Java problems a while back anyway. I'll have a play around next week.

Cheers,

James