Are we looking at the same thing? Maybe its a perspective thing but these parts look curved across the surface of the imaginary sphere of the wheel surface in your render but straight in the photo.

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Amazing as usual, not that I expected anything less.

The diagonal part of the tread pointing toward the hold down point looks curved in your render, is that right? I could have sworn it was straight and looking at a few images it looks to me like should be.

James

I agree, I added the "2011 W3 (Lovejoy)" subheading earlier today to help identify the thread and have now changed the main title to your suggestion.

140,000 km (1.2 solar radii) above the surface

Here is the Turkey Haven parking spot in colour.



James

I'm sure they have, although I wonder if the rapidly changing Doppler frequency from an orbiting craft is another problem with acquiring a lock using antennas designed to work with craft in deep space?

Here is my version of the small 'contact' mosaic taken on sol 2772



James

My version of the Kirkland Lake mosaic:



That is some impressive rock pile!

James

The missing piece came down, so as promised I've had another go at this...



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Have you got confirmation of this Matt? 2728 looks like another runout from the tracking data.

As there are still missing data I haven't tried too hard to perfect this, but the the view is so astounding that I can't keep this preliminary version to myself!



James

That is the start of the Endeavour pan. Those 5 will be joined by 10 more tomorrowsol, and hopefully more next week. All in L257 colour.

Chester Lake in 'false but trying' and 'stretched to within an inch' colours.




Fascinating...

Stoughton Rock Garden = awesome!



James

Here is my version of the Odyssey Crater mosaic from way back on sol 2683 that has just come down.

I haven't done any detailed analysis of how well my drivability maps turned out but it didn't seem to far off

I did plenty of eyeballing of HiRISE images coloured with derived ripple size at the time to know that was working well and we now have plenty of experience comparing ripples from the ground with HiRISE to know how those compare so I'm not surprised it worked fairly well.

Here is the HBC mosaic:

Started.

Visuals and other info here:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/telecon/20110901.html

A little late (I have a newborn!) but here is my large scale route map for sol 2700.



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Tisdale in colour

Moved a couple of posts to the Cape York thread. We're there now folks!

About 70m further tosol (2678) - should have a great view of Spirit point now!

So by my reckoning the tracking data puts us very close to that hump that we were debating yesterday, right on Botany Bay. This should be spectacular!

climber, expect images at 01:35UTC, too late for me dammit!