Got to be - it's not 'real' or it'd be in L & R.

And here's the updated Quicktime VR (now 2.5 MB)

In the new pancams we can see a couple of old friends we haven't seen in quite a while, what we called "Hoy" and "The Lump" (official names Straight and Madrid), which I've circled here:

Whenever I think about the rovers moving somehow the words "paint" and "dry" come to mind. Not all the times. Sometimes it is "grass" and "grow".

Paolo

Yeah - just be carefull if you hear Scott making jet-engine noises within 20 feet of a workstation.

Doug

Silly little question but I have to ask it. There must be a small volume up close to each camera that is not imaged by the other camera. How far does this extend in front of the cameras? Would any mid-air object within that range be so close as to be way out of focus?

Good catch, fredk! It was a long time ago, wasn't it?

The separation of the navcam "eyes" is 20 cm. The strange feature is almost at the left edge of the image. An object about 1 meter in front of the camera would be shifted about 11 degrees by parallax in the view of the right eye. This would seem to be enough to put it out of the field of view. But I agree it is most likely a cosmic ray.

Well - Navcam is a 45 deg FOV, and they're 20cm apart (pancam is 30).

So - it's a triangle about 20cm across, and projecting 10 cm forward.

Before the long treck will start, I'd like to update the file of this topic: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ic=2580&hl=
What I find will be usefull, and keep us less nervous, will be to add the periods of restricted sols clearly shown. But I miss the essential : a starting time and a recurence.
In case Paolo could provide me (us) with this information it'll be very ideal; if not, is there somebody that can tell me for sure when next period will start as well as the recurence?
Gracie Mille

Beautiful view from Cape Victory!
Check the latest images after the drive on sol 1668 here: http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...cam/2008-10-03/
It's a whole 360º shot but autostitch was unable to do it completely. Anyway, here's what I've got.


Edited: Added a polar projection.

Hi Tesh',
I've made the complete version using R "eye" to avoid the grey disk of dust at the top center of each frame of left camera, but it doesn't match correctly with my flatfield image.
Made with Hugin if you're curious (not very perfect : non flat horizon, shifting error).

Here's the usual Sol 1668 QuickTime VR (3 MB)

Forgive me if I'm repeating a FAQ, but in the event a new science target is reached, what is the status of Oppy's RAT and spectrometer? From what I recall, the RAT still had some life left in it, but the spectrometer was requiring soak times of more than 48 hours?

RAT is still useable, it is a pain to use it, but useable. Which spectrometer? MB, APXS, MTES?

Paolo