And as this is sol 2600 it's time to update my map too.



James

It's taken a while for me to get around to this - the second colour Santa Maria panorama.



James

You're aware of MMB, right?

It won't do the side by side images your talking about but it is worth it for the downloading and sorting into folders (by sol) alone.

You could tell 4 years ago!



I think I was referring to the magnet next to the PCT. However I suspect it is actually a blend of the two rovers based on whichever rover photograph was being used for reference each time.

As always scooterlord, my jaw hits the floor every time you post.

James

Bagua

Great pics Emily. I couldn't help noticing that you took them with a 3D camera. You know what we all really want to see now don't you.

Glad you're safe Pandaneko.

I'm sure many of us would be interested to hear your story, and the thread that centsworth_II pointed you to would be the right place for it.

James

The view from Luis de Torres:



James

I'm a few hours early but as I'm busy tomorrow and over the weekend I'll post this now:

Sol 2500

There are still a few bits of corrupted data in the raws - but nothing a little fudging can't sort out, I couldn't wait any longer so without further ado, Santa Maria!




James

La Gallega Crater

Yeah, Scott tweeted that Oppy had passed that milestone a couple of days ago.

This is only a draft version as there are still a few data dropouts and it is just the output from my automated system before doing any fine tuning or touchups that I'll do to the final version. However the view is so spectacular I couldn't sit on this any longer waiting for the last bits.



James

Thanks.

I'm not sure, I have a vague memory of doing something similar a long time ago, but it might just have been the idea rather than actually doing it!

Guilty!

Found myself with a spare hour this evening and seeing as I'm going to be away for Christmas (if we can get out through the snow!) and probably wont get to have a crack at the real thing for a week or so, I thought I'd see what I could do with what we have:



Emily, if we don't get the real pancams soon it might look nice with a rover model at Oppy's current location on the right if someone wanted to drop one in.

James

Here is a thumbnail preview of the complete first Santa Maria pan:



James

Wow you can tell something exciting is happening when people start playing with the stamps.

I can play that game too.

And don't forget the front hazcams after gawping over the navcams, they are awesome and just little bit scary at the same time.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...J3P1212L0M1.JPG

OMG!
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...J3P1963L0M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...J3P1963L0M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...J3P1963R0M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...J3P1963L0M1.JPG

A quick attempt at matching features. My normally vertical lines aren't quite this time, largely because the ground position I took for Oppy as a basis for the reprojection of the HiRISE was a complete guess. In hindsight I think I guessed a little too close to the edge.

A quick stitch

Wow thats one big hole!

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...IEP1905L0M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...IEP1905L0M1.JPG

And some nice driving

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...IEP1905R0M1.JPG

Right. Scott said on Twitter yesterday that after the next drive Oppy should be ~3m from the edge!

And tosols attempt to match features in a reprojected HiRISE image with those in Fred's images.

Not totally sure of the ID's here. I don't really want to start a nearside/farside debate, but I think we can see the near rim on the right and the far rim on the left.