Hell - drop an email to a NASA center - they'll send you some for nothing.

Ok- as requested, here is an x-eye version of that anaglyph, showing a slightly smaller area, in smaller size. Somehow x-eyed images do not quite work for these vast flat surfaces, for me at least, and they also take up more surface area and thus it takes more file space to post one. For which reasons I am confining myself to anaglyph viewing (and occasionally posting them).

Edited with addition: Anyone who has difficulties with 3D images, and everyone else too, please check pgrindrod's more advanced visibility analysis in post #667 which is based on the same HiRISE data (and which has been undeservedly neglected in the commentary!).

...A few of us do not have binocular fusion, and thus the glasses are no help...
(cross-eye pics don't work either)
...but don't stop posting....

<Mr Cobb> We need to go closer !

Sol 2636 color pan.

Mmm, interesting feature 5deg. to the left of "approach crater"...

Original: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P2351L2M1.JPG

It must be

Ooooooooooh! I SO want to should "Land Ho!!!!" but I guess we should wait to be sure...?

I noticed that too! I guess we're all scrutinizing the horizon these days.

I'm pretty sure it's a bit of the far rim. We're still dropping into a local basin, so the far-rim features are disappearing and they may look unfamiliar. The bit Tesheiner pointed out was more visible on 2633:

Before we have a chance to start seeing CY, the local horizon has to start dropping first. And it will probably be still some time after that before we see CY. I think we'll start getting interesting views of the interior of Endeavour before we see CY.

I was just preparing a post and graphic to say the same thing as Fredk but I needn't bother now.

Sorry folks far rim for that one, we are going to have to wait till after some OMFFSM views of the far rim before we see Cape York IMO. At the moment our view of the far rim is pretty poor.

James

Nice acronym James - hadn't encountered that one before!

Phil

I absolutely agree with you Fred. After looking at the HiRISE CY Anaglyph (and x-eyed which for reasons unbeknownst to me personally produces a more discernabloe or 'vivid' representation of Δz) a bit this morning I became increasingly convinced with that our first solid views of Cape York will come within 100m *after* Close Approach Crater. Going back and looking at Pete's animation further gave me confidence in that regard. I would admit that a couple of pixels worth of CY's highest reaches may be intermittently visible ~150m before CA, but again no solid view until just after driving past CA.

My two cents for what their worth

-- Pertinax

Agree with "First Solid Views after Approach Crater" (v chuffed everyone's using my nickname, BTW!) but I still think we'll see a hint of a glimpse of something poking over the horizon around where I've planted my little red flag...

That was my second thought, basically because it was so faint in relation to the foreground and to Approach Crater, but had no time to search for older pictures.

I totally sure that is the far rim we see there. Nothing more. Just a game of the ripples that make rise and set some far hills.

This view -one of those of the last set of pic sended to the exploratorium- freaked me out a little bit :


Had the impression of seeing the mast of cameras from the rear side

You can see just how much of a local dip we're in if you compare the view of the Far Hills from Santa Maria to the view we have now...