Long baseline, colour anaglyph of the far rim.



I just love looking at the Soup Dragon in this image.

James

If my understanding of the rover quaternians is right then I reckon Spirit lost less than 1 degree of north tilt during this manouver. It's now about 10 degrees (cf. 11 before), good news.

James

Well the Cape Verde pan is a bit of a mess at the moment, but since it's a competition, here's my entry.



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Yes, but not yet. This will will just be the long awaited clockwise turn to put some of the thin outcrop within arms reach.

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Still a little missing data, but after the long conjunction I thought it about time to get something out. I'll produce a more refined version, better colour, sky added etc, for the final version.



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This strikes me as quite an odd thing to say, as at this point the beacon hides a lot of the clockwise rim. It's no surprise that CStM is the next target , but I would have reserved a decision on clockwise vs anticlockwise till we got there and could actually see more of the the north rim. Then again they do have the HiRise.

A 360 from the beacon please Jim/Steve.

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Looks like we're back to work guys.

Take a look at the anaglyph of the sol 976 (Cape Verde panorama) pancams of St Mary. I can't wait for the whole pan.

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Last time I counted Oppy was the one with more things wrong (shoulder joint and steering actuator vs just a wheel motor). Although none of these are a threat to the mission so don't have anything to do with them 'dying'. Granted Spirits wheel problem is more of a disability at this stage, but I have no doubt that she can still make significant progress this summer.
Power levels are on the rise too, so far from dying I think Spirit is starting to 'come back to life'. And as others have said all we need is one good cleaning event - which given the summer atmospheric activity we saw last year is not unlikely - and Spirit will be in great health.

Dying is a strong word - and a totally inappropiate one for either rover at this stage in my opinion.

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Well HiRISE has the resolution and we know it has amazing signal to noise, but I fear that dust deposition over that last decade will have rendered the tracks with nearly zero contrast over the surrounding ground so that even HiRISE can't see them. But we'll see...

I'm just hoping we can see the little rover - or even just see that it is not where we left it. It would be VERY cool to know that Sojourner set off exploring on her own after we lost contact.

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And Mars24 agrees with MMB: 00:44:04 UTC 26th Oct.

Don't worry Stu, no Soup Dragon habitat was damaged during construction.

Glad you like the images, I found it very enlightening too.

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I thought I'd join the party...

Victoria fits nicely into Bondi Bay - (you can see my place in this image ).



The main span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is too short for Victoria (503m), but will bridge F2/3 to L2/3. (Note The Opera House, bottom)



And it turns out I've taken a mosaic of the bridge from a ferry at about where Cape Verde is in this image. So here is how Oppy sees the scene.



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Yeah, from Steve's above post I would say that Oct 30 seems right, the new update must be in error.

I guess there is no harm in trying to transmit data - even if a lot of it doesn't make it through, at least a few scraps should let the engineers know all is well.

See over here

The end of conjunction date in the Spirit update has changed! Climber quoted that conjunction would end on Oct 30th now the next update says:



Nov 10th, can that really be right?

Good news that they will still be trying to downlink a little.

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No. Using the stretched jpegs with no calibration files, true colour is impossible. It is however a guess at a 'realistic' colour.

And i've just noticed that there is a Cabo Frio ture colour image on the pancam site which shows that I'm not that far off - still a bit to much contrast though.



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Yup still in Sydney. Escaped to the Blue Mountains to avoid the heat at the weekend though.


Looks like the data flow has stopped for the conjuction now. So I'll post the partial colour Duck Bay pan that I wasn't going to bother with.



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And the "Soup Dragon" posts moved to a dedicated thread.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3353

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Yeah after I posted that, I started to worry that it wasn't very convicing. Good work on matching to the Gusev rim.

One thing I had not appreciated until I looked at at the anaglyph, is that that bedrock section in Duck Bay does stick out a bit, like a small cape. And pre-arrival when I first labeled the capes on the MOC image I even labeled it - P5.

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Full Duck Bay pan in L2




L2/R2 anaglyph - registered as I prefer it (looking through the screen). Use stereophotomaker if you want to adjust it.



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I'm sure none of the Columbia hills could look that hazy, especially during the nice clear winter.

I think the features match up with that view of Thira from the summit - considering that the POV has changed a bit. And the bearing is right 55-60 degrees.



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It's the north rim of Thira Crater I think.

Compare with this from HH summit.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...FP2292L7M1.HTML

Cape St Mary? The Beacon?

A L2 pancam/HiRISE comparison.



James