PM sent to SFJCody with the tiles. If anyone else has a use for full resolution 8192x8192 JPG chunks of ESP_011765_1780 let me know.

While doing that I also ran my ripple mapping tool on that image.



I await to see what the 'possible' route is - maybe folloing the bedrock out crops something like this...



(Both images link to same blog post with larger versions)

James

I'll see what I can do - babies take up a lot of time so no promises!

What format do you want the output? jpg, png? presumably 8bit?

Movie of twilight at Gusev, taken over 23 minutes at around 18:30LST on Sol 1835



Are we seeing stars and Earth/Venus or are those just hot pixels - I'm a little surprised that there is no apparent movement as they set.

Here is one of those thumbnails



Working on movie...

I have some scripts to do this, let me know if you decide to do it and I can probably make the chunks for you and throw them on my webspace.

James

The impression I got was the 'short' path would be something like my prediction the 'long' path would scoot around the west side of the large ripple patch we are approaching.

That would take us off the current HiRISE image - does anyone know if there is a HiRISE image further west that I could ripple map

Just catching up a bit. Drive direction mosaics for sols 1897 to 1904 (all images link to the same blog entry)


Sol 1897

Sol 1898

Sol 1900

Sol 1902

Sol 1904



James

OK, although I'm not entirely sure this is the right thread.

Here is my guess of a route to the 'parking lot', with a guess on timescales for good measure.

Wait and then try again. It worked yesterday when Fran posted it - the whole jhuapl.edu domain appears to be down at the moment.

With today's 60m(ish) drive that is another 100 sols marked off. Here is my 100 sol route map overview for sol 1900.



Steady progress

Note, we're now about as far from Victoria as we were at Purgatory!

James

What we are seeing are more parts (almost the whole rim!) of Iazu crater beyond and to the right of Endeavour. (The less hazy bit on the left is the near rim of Endeavour)

Here is the left and right pancams stacked, enhanced and stretched 3x with one of my 'inverse polar' images (each vertical column of pixels is one line of sight from our current position. Alignment using the pancam tracking data.



James

Well, like Opportunity it has far too many syllables for everyday use. Luckily it shortens nicely to 'Curie'.

In that case



This is directly from the data tracking - no attempt to line up ripples (I don't have the time, or the full res HiRISE at the moment)

Oops. Thanks Phil. Getting my Mars and F1 brains mixed up a bit...

Nice ones Alan & Ant, however I think adding the images from 1886 adds a certain something



James

Here is the sol 1892 colour (R21) drive direction mosaic.

Talking of miles, we must be pretty close to the 10 mile post. (Only 93m past 16km, and we did 70 odd of those tosol)

I was waiting for someone to do that - nice one Astro0 - that highly sharpened one is awesome!

That's it - I'm officially joining Doug's 'image the whole rover with the MI' campaign, it would be totally amazing.

EDIT: I see I'm a bit late - these are already down - nice!

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...ger/2009-05-19/

A bit late - not much spare time being a parent to a three month old! - but here are the colour (R21) drive direction mosaics from a couple of weeks back.





Unfortunately the recent drive direction pans haven't been taken with multiple filters so no colour I'm afraid.

Congrats to ESA - I haven't been so nervous about a launch in a long time, two such important missions on one flight - whew!

Yeah Doug that is the same one as the colour image Alan posted.

To get a third perspective I went to Sol 1389 (just after Tartarus). No pancams unfortunately but there is a navcam pair



Above the LGA (I think)

Right eye



(Above the HGA in this one)

Agreed - moved posts to Getting unstuck in West Valley

Yes at the rear MSL has two pairs of Hazcams. This is because it has a huge plutonium filled tail sticking out the back and so the only way to get good coverage is with a pair on each side. I think there is only one pair at the front though - so just 6 hazcams

6 5 6 ! Woah!