No It's not a full set, I'm missing a few hundred sols here and there.

I did regenerate the image index after adding in all the raw images backed up from before I went away.

I just tried changing my MMB directories, create new ones and then updated Oppy sol 1 pancams and all the false colour images were messed up.

e.g. (resized)

Weird.

James

After migrating to my new Linux system (Ubuntu 7.04), MMB (1.5.2) seems to mismatch nearly all the images when generating the false colour. Any ideas as to what could be going wrong?

James

That's an artifact of my processing. Because the pointing is slightly different on the two observations the blend line between the image pairs is in a slightly different place. So in that little 'uplift' area you are seeing a comparison between the top image of one and the bottom of the other, which, as the the pancam does not rotate exactly about the sensor results in a slightly different viewpoint and hence apparet motion.

Your right about nearly all the movement being from berries in the tracks. I'm sure I did find one in an undisturbed area, but i'll be darned if I can see it now.

James

Berries on the move.



Click to get full res (5.2Mb) from my website. (First update in 6 months!)

James

Greg, you seem to have the 3rd flyby linked twice, missing the second (although they are very similar).

If you have the bandwidth the animations of the flybys from MESSENGERS p.o.v are VERY illuminating.

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/ani.html - scroll down.

James

Quite a bit of activity planned for the upcoming sol B1254 - even some pancam colour! Got to keep those electronics warm.



P.S. I don't know how long they have been there, or if it has been mentioned here before in my absence, but I noticed some long range planning in the database.



James

A day later than planned (I'm still trying to get all my processing software up and running again).

There is a bit of overlap between the A1272 navcams and those taken on A1250 from the same spot (AUCM). Of course camera moves a bit due to the differing elevations that it was pointed at so the match isn't perfect. Here's the gif.



Click for a full res version (1.9Mb)

Some quite dramatic changes.

James

Great work, as usual.

I'm sure you know this and it's on your long 'to do' list, but note that the forward hinges connecting the central triangle to the wings are missing.

James


PS - I see it's Spirit your modeling

Links are right at the bottom of the page and in English.

Nice work getting linked Ustrax.

James

That's not hard, Spirit is right next to loads of old tracks, some nearly 500 sols old!

Gusev remained at Tau = 4.0 for 1259, for those few not watching Mark's page closely.

But the question is not how much charge the batteries can hold but how much they actually have right now. I doubt the batteries are fully charged at the moment!

Also I was under the impression that Oppy could get away with quite a bit thess than 240Whr during these warm summer nights?

So all in all I don't think we can make any guesses about how long a rover can hold out under these conditions, not to mention how quickly these conditions change. We just need to hope, each sol they survive is one sol closer to the end of the storm...

James

Oh sure, I wasn't suggesting they should actually do anything, except stay alive with those 200. Save any precious spare Whr's in the battery for a rainy dusty day.

I never thorght i'd be glad to see a Tau of 4.6-4.8!

That should give about 200Whr if my maths is right. That is probably just about enough, right?

James

Actually, after thinking and reading more about this, I'm not sure it's actually possible to deep sleep during the day (unless day is like night, not impossible at the moment!) as deep sleep works by disconnecting the BCB and ends when the BCB is naturally repowered by the solar arrays at dawn (when ~0.2 Amps is generated), ending deep sleep whether you want it to or not.

James

Ah, I'm glad sombody knows this. I've only ever been able to find reference that all *loads* are removed from the battery. As clearly something of the solar array power gets to the BCB* (as it is this power that tells the BCB to reconnect the battery in the morning) I was never sure if the battery could be charged while in deep sleep.



Well unless the array power was less than the minimum 'do nothing loads', particuarly with the sholder heater, in which case the battery is not going to charge anyway. The issue is: do you want to conserve power in the battery or do you use every drop trying to stay alive...



Me too, only in the last few hours have I started to really worry, tau > 5 wow!

James

* BCB = Battery Control Board

<250 by my count

Easy mistake to make!

Congrats to the team on another amazing milestone. >10km >1000 sols, crazy, I still find it hard to believe.



2 more would be a nice start - 20 times the original requirement!

Spaceflight Now: Sea Launch vessels set sail for port following explosion.

Here is a version of the animation shown on the programme, illustrating the transformation of my Duck Bay panorama from raw stretched jpegs to finished image.



James

Seems like a good time for a new thread.

Spirit should be on her way back to Home Plate fairly soon. To help plan this, back on sols 1081 and 1089 a long baseline anaglyph was taken in that direction, here is my attempt to put it together.




James

Thanks all.

The Cape Desire images from Cabo Anonimo have now been downlinked.



James

That's not weird, just different! I have mine on the right - makes much more sense to have it there on a widescreen display.


Great article John.

James

Other versions were posted in the Bahia Blanca thread but this really belongs here.

My version of the stunning 5pm view from Cabo Anonimo.



I can't wait for one of you colouring in folks to attack this view.

James.


And that brings up the big 1000 posts. Still, can't keep up with Spirit or Oppy sols though.