Where's Tesheiner? Normally the map's updated before I've even realised a drive has happened.

We had one tosol (823), a big one!

I don't know the exact figure as we had a site change (70 -> 71) but at the time of the change (very near - EDIT: about 1m from the end of the drive) we had 71m on the clock!

James

That is interesting, being in the PDS headers...

I still beleve the 16.0 figure in Bell et al. 2003 is accurate though. I have made two 360 degree panoramas and in both cases I optimised for the fov: 15.9687 and 16.0816. A change to 15.84 would lead to ~3 degrees difference over 360 degrees, ~7 pixels per image, seriously messing with the stitch quality. 16.8 would be much worse of course.

Still, a good question for Jim Bell, get this cleared up once and for all.

Back on topic, I've been sitting on the fence across Victoria for too long...

I'm going to join the nearside team.

James

Just noticed that I've been getting errors when MMB checks for JPL images.

On the auto update.



And when I select the 'Update Latest Images From JPL' option.



However it seems to work when I select 'Advanced Update Images...' - Update from JPL.


Michael?

Well, nearly.

I'm surprised you didn't pick this one up Doug, it's only been photographed about a million times!

Magnet next to the cal target has a different orientation.



James

Here is the version with the missing data filled in.



And quite a big download of colour as well over the weekend.



This is just a quick taster, I need to think a lot more about full (L234567) colour generation in the near future.


James

Of course, it's already been done. Although for the bit missing in the lower right, the stamp on the tracking site shows it's been completed but for some reason the new version hasn't been propagated to the Exploratorium or JPL sites. We had the same problem at Gibson, I may have to fill that region with the lower res stamp for now.



I'm not sure there is an increase, especially if you look back over the whole mission, things were a lot worse back in the early days IIRC. There have always been dropouts like this, don't worry!

James

Here's the latest L7 then...



No full res version again, but if there was, then at 150dpi it'd be 2.1m x 85cm

James

The bones could be an interesting target.

Good spot for the usual weekend stop, I'd be surprised if it was any longer.

James

It's going to take an awfully long time for a rock the size of Veus to cool enough to freeze CO2 I would imagine.

I remember reading (a long time ago) of another idea, that would have split the CO2 atmosphere into an O2 one with a lot (and I mean a lot) of carbon dust coving the surface, although quite how that helps matters I can't remember!

But anyway, why get rid of the atmosphere when it provides such a nice habitat at 50km...

http://powerweb.grc.nasa.gov/pvsee/publica...ony_STAIF03.pdf

James

I am *so* going to have to come and have that tour of cdscc!

Thanks for the pics Astro0.

James

Looks good to me, that's exactly the position I get from the tracking data.

james

Orville

Yup. Small world, the Canvins were Huguenots too. We headed of to England when things got ugly, but are now scattered all over the globe as well.

Canvin is thought to derive from the french "champs de vin" = "fields of wine", which I think explains a lot!

James

No problem, the least I could do.

Thank *you* for keeping it up to date for every other sol!

Welcome back,

James

I've added another column to the L7 pan (that makes 8, 1/3 of the way there!) and redone the 14 frame full colour one (no missing sections and better colour)

I won't bother putting the thumbnails in this time, save a bit of bandwidth.

See my website.

James

-12.7 (from google)



~ -11.8 According to Celestia



~ -18.3 Celestia again.

James

Halfway from where?

Roughly looking at the map I think were pretty much halfway between Payson and 'Corner Crater' already, pretty good progress! At this rate we should be on the apron by sol 870ish by my reckoning.

Not looking good for my Victoria prediction, here's hoping that Corner Crater is be interesting enough for a primary mission length stop!

James

And again for Sol 808



James

Nice.

Makes a lot of sense, thanks.

'Corner Crater' is starting to look interesting I hope we end up passing nearby.

James

Here is my estimate of Oppys position for sol 807 based on the pancam tracking data.



James

And here is a rough version of the 14 frames that are down (nearly) completely in L234567:



Again, half & quarter resolution versions on my website (click image)

This is the first time i've used the full L234567 and I've essentially mixed different filters to get RGB in a pretty random way (a little of this, a bit more of that). If anyone has any better idea of approximately what proportions of each I should be using, I'd love to here it.

Cheers,

James

I've started to work on the McMurdo pan...

Here are the 28 pointings (7 columns) taken so far (upto tosol, 827) in L7.



Half & quarter resolution versions on my website (click image)

James

Back on the road tosol...

Congrats Emily!

And congrats to everyone for making this another classic thread. UMSF humor, you've gotta love it!

James

OK i've done a bit more work on this.

Attached is an overlay of all the locations listed on the tracking site on Tesheiner's route map back to sol 775 - this covers 3 'sites' 67, 68 & 69 which are added and matched to the map seperately (it's not one continuous line) there are a couple of interesting things to note:

1) The fit to Tesheiner's route line is very good showing what we already new - what a great job he's doing
I find it incredibly hard looking at all these outcrops and trying to figure out whats going on!

2) For two of the three 'sites' I had to rotate my route by around 3 degrees to get it to match with Tesheiner's map following the ground features (I'm not sure about the third). This got me thinking, MGS's orbit is inclided at about 93 degrees and so when crossing the equator at Meridiani will be traveling at 3 degrees from north/south and as it uses a 'brush broom' camera this will be the orientation of the image pixels.

My question is, has that been accounted for on this map, or is north really 3 degrees away from 'up'? Which would make a lot of sense compared to what i'm getting from the data tracking data!

James