If you have two days of consecutive driving, you know you're not in restricted sols. The definition of a restricted sol is one where by Sol n data arrives at a time too late to be involved in the planning of Sol n+1, so mobility planning can only occur for Sol n+2.

Typically, a period of restricted sols lasts about 10 days to 2 weeks.

Sometimes, however, due to bad downlink, missed DSN pass, an error on the rover etc - you can miss a sol or 3 just thru bad luck ( one sol was lost thru because a cable at a DSN dish had been eaten by rodents )

It's 5am 759 for Oppy now - and I'm seing 758 images that show a drive occured.

Doug

Heehee! Luvitluvitluvit! You liddle bewdy! O.K. now we want the humming to increase in volume as Oppy comes into the frame, then a new buzz as the Pancam rotates to look at the viewer, finally a click and lurch and Oppy heads off and out of frame. We should run up a storyboard.
Hollywood here we come! Dahlings!

OK Shaka, don't get too excited. I'm no Speilberg and my special effects budget extends to whatever freeware I can find and my newly acquired Adobe Premier and After Effects (which I'm still learning as you can tell). I've certainly got plans for more movies, but don't go putting me up for Oscar nominations.

Glad you liked it though
Astro0

Nice work Astro0

Well if you show our baby actually moving realistically thru Payson, we may all nominate you for an Oscar

ken

I don't know about "realistically" but how about 'South Park-style'.
"Oh My God...They Killed (insert name of your favourite failed Mars mission here)!"

Astro0

Whoa, People! SOUTH PARK
And I'm thinking:Guest Spot!
Here it is: Oppy runs over ...wait for it...KENNY!
Quick, who owes us in Lalaland? I say we do lunch! Who lives around L.A.?
Emily?

Glad to see my false-color pano in your animation, beautiful music!
...and great picture of Opportunity visiting its heatshield!

This is the 360º navcam pano taken on sol 758.
Who wants to make a polar projection of it?

(713k)

Voila.

We're all probably getting a little anxious about our two intrepid explorers right about now.
Spirit seems to be having some troubles over at Gusev and now that Oppy is back on the road to Victoria we all want her to get there safely.

Chat about animations reminded me of a JPL film on the MERs autonomous navigation.
I thought I'd post a link to an edited version that I think will bring a smile to all at this time

For those of you who have seen it before, enjoy it once more.
For those of who haven't, I recommend seeing this excerpt and then checking out the MER website and seeing the whole thing.

The excerpt is here File; 466kb WMV

The full version is here File: 18.6mb MOV

All credit to the work on this film by Jack Morrison for JPL/Caltech

Enjoy
Astro0

moi aussi, Just need Phil for the trifecta of Polar Pans. Though an original without the missaligned stich over the aft solar panel would be nice.

Doug try using the Filter>Distort>Pinch or Filter>Distort>Spherize effect after Polar Coordinates. The below Polar was modified with 2X 100% Pinch Filter.

Thanks Doug and Paxdan for the help.

I was aware of the misalignment but sometimes autostitch is not so smart as I would like, specially on these Arrakis (sorry, Meridiani) panoramas.

Ok, here's mine.

Phil

Aligned with MOC imagery, as usual!
Thanks Phil.

Phil wins

Doug