Had a go at mapping the navcams onto the mastcam thumbnail pan to do this, not totally successful but not bad in the end.



James

I have a KSH script that wgets the index HTML page extracts the image id's and then wgets all the images, putting them into a MMB like directory structure. it's not well tested (I wrote it this morning!) but I can post it tomorrow if people are interested.

A number of news sites picked up my version of the first MSL horizon navcams yesterday. That I know of:

MSNBC

New Scientist (picture of the day)

Le Figaro (4th image in the album) (was on front page of website for a while)

More sol 2 navcams, (2D & 3D) looking towards the mountain this time. Not particularly happy with the right eye alignment (still working on understanding all this new stuff!) but it'll have to do for now.

Yes, those mountains are a *long* way away. Same as at the MER sites, distant hills look hazy through the dusty atmosphere.

I've added the left eye mosaic, along with the right eye and 3D anaglyph that I posted above, to my blog.

http://www.nivnac.co.uk/mer/index.php/msl0002

Anaglyph!



Now excuse me while I fall off my chair...

Oh My!

Maybe some, but the navcams are almost exact copies of the MER ones, which which do show a similar amount of vignette as is apparent in that image.

Here is the navcam image with vignetting removed.

Navcam! Mast is up.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/ra...04096M_&s=2

No, MSL had no ability to perform hazard avoidance for surface features. The only hazard avoidance manoeuvre was just after release from the backshell when a horizontal manoeuvre was performed to remove any risk of recontacting the backshell/parachute.

If I understood the talk at the last press conference then the stowed MAHLI image should fit into the scene something like this.

Rough 360 degree panorama

Another go at reprojecting the front hazcam

Ha, Ok maybe I was the one who needed to rewatch it. I remembered that they were towed in after deploy but hadn't noticed that they were straight at landing, I always assumed they would stay pointed in as straightening would be an extra unneeded complication.

Yes, watch the landing animation again.

Yes setting, sunset was just a couple of hours after landing and it is just after midnight now (starting sol 1)

Yeah, I was wondering how you got everyone to stand still enough for gigapanning! ;-)

A reprojected version of my RHaz image as requested by Emily on Twitter.

Combining the Photojournal version of the Rear Hazcam that has been stretched well for the foreground, with a stretch of the raw image for the sky to show the rim of Gale better.

In fact, thinking about this some more, if the reported coordinates are close, that 'small' rise that obscures the crater rim on the left of the RHaz is possibly the edge of the mountain, something like:

Yes, the rim is lost in the glare in that pic, here is a stretch of the one from the raw site. Useless for the foreground but does show more of the rim. Looks to me like a small topographic rise on the near horizon is obscuring the bit on the left.

I believe that the mast is not going to be deployed for a sol or two so hazcams only for now.

No images yet but the raw images page is intriguing:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0