..."Grind?"...

Well, that is a picture of a soil brushing. On the other hand, both Odyssey and MRO are back on line, and maybe they are downloading a bunch of old stuff -- I think the just-downloaded Microscopic Imager files are older.

That's what I thought it looked like, but all the front hazcam images from the same day on Exploratorium show the IDD on the upper surface of MI rock. (unless it is old stuff like MarkG says, but it looks like an intact, uniform set of images)

That's an old image from sol 2015 or so.

The time stamps for the MIs which run from 307153499 to 307153634 seem to match up with this front hazcam image with time stamp 307154030:

We've only been doing this for nearly 6 years and people still fall for this old gem?

Images are not necessarily downlinked on the order they are taken. Why anyone would fall for it when MMB exists is beyond me

I don't know how many times I've caught others doing this. First thing I always do is check the dates (or almost always, apparently). Sorry guys. We seriously need a red-faced smiley.

I only browse the images at exploratorium. Never tried MMB

There are many other tools for revealing the date and time information from image file names. I can imagine no reason why someone following the rovers wouldn't do so via MMB however ( unless they were not on a Win or Mac platform )

Even there is no need to check the dates but just the site ids if you know what I mean.

I don't, and that's not because I have anything against MMB; far from it, I know from what everyone says here that it's a fantastic resource. No, I don't for a combination of reasons - mainly, my computer is so out of date and groaning and creaking under the weight of everything in it (new PC next year tho, yaaay! :-) ), and my broadband connection here in Kendal-twinned-with-Sedna is so ******** **** that I don't think I'd get thebest use out of the program.

But also, if I'm honest - and I don't think I'm alone here - I actually enjoy doing it "manually"; I enjoy the feelings of expectation and excitement I get when I go online and go to Exploratorium to see if there are any new images! That might seem stupid, or even perverse to some people - including, I suspect, my fellow Mods/Admins! - but it's just something I enjoy. It's genuinely exciting to dash out of bed at 6am on a brutally frosty morning like this morning, slide into my computer chair, go online and see that yaaay! there are New Images for me to drool over!

So Stu, you've probably noticed this little guy!!!




Edited: oups, sorry this is a Spirit's picture. As were talking about general pictures, I didn't check we were in Oppy's.

I'm a Midnight Mars Browser fan. (Thanks Mr. Howard - if you're ever round these parts we'll shout you dinner for sure!!). I love just hitting the download button, getting on with some other work and anticipating the bonanza (often old pics ) and then the real fun begins by flicking through the forward arrow and checking the jpegs almost like a movie!!

I started this NavCam mini panorama - Sol 2090 (Fri 11 Dec 09) more as an exercise in stretching the individual jpegs to fit and in working on overcoming the contrasty edges to make a smooth even join (but in complete contrast to the convenience of MMB I like to do everything manually to learn how it is done - will check out that anti vignetting software soon!). It didn't look too bad so - since I'm winding down for Christmas - I thought I might as well try to do a good job with it - also added a couple of little artistic tweaks!

I've also added a low resolution rough stitch of the originals to compare - it's good fun working on these to get the final result!

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(Just a short note, the aforementioned Microscopic Imager pictures from the past were not soil brushings, they were imprints of the spectrometer.)

The recent brushings have exposed the details of a filled crack in Marquette Island. Fascinating.

Could you point out that crack to us in an image, or at least point to an image?