Great versions Nico & Nirgal!! And as Max suggested I moved the sun in my image a little bit to the left.

http://www.marsgeo.com/Photos/Spirit/BestC..._HP_HHill_c.jpg

I thought I'd also let everybody know that Stu inspired me with his comments about getting this image out to the general public. I sent an email to Jim Bell with a link to our forum discussion and I got a response today. Here are some excerpts of what he wrote:

"It is absolutely thrilling--and incredibly fulfilling to me personally--to see you and so many others working
with the images and creating such beautiful products.

"Your Spirit sol 813 image is particularly well-timed, as I have been working on a monochrome and sepia-toned version of that mosaic for possible release on the JPL web site (if they will post it--sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, I'm not sure how they decide), and on our own internal Pancam web site (I hope you know about http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu) this week.

"This was shot using only two filters--spanning the broadest range of the camera's wavelength coverage--as part of an experiment to determine topography at large distances using images at multiple times of sol."

He goes on to say that the power levels were insufficient to acquire a 6 filter image set. And so his team will not be attempting any "approximate true color" version. What Nico, dilo, and Nirgal have generated will the most "realistic" versions out there.

Cool. Here, just for perspective (perspective projection, that is), is a wide view of the daytime pan, facing due North:

Congratulations aldo on the very positive feedback from JB. Much deserved recognition of your work - and congratulations to everyone who's been busy making panoramas of this fantastic view, each one has brought something new and different to the scene, brought out even more of its beauty and grandeur.

When the great naturalist John Muir wrote the following words about the wonders of Yosemite...

"...In the supreme flaming glory of sunset the whole canon is transfigured, as if all the life and light of centuries of sunshine stored up and condensed in the rocks was now being poured forth as from one glorious fountain, flooding both earth and sky."

... I think he could just as easily have been talking about the landscape you've shown us these past few days aldo, Nirgal, Dilo, and all you other ImageMages.

I wonder how a martian-born John Muir will one sol describe the scenes we're all enjoying?

Cool, I was not aware of that pamcam site. I'm glad Jim Bell likes the work. Rob Manning stopped by the Mark Carey blog a few months ago, it's always nice when the pro's stop by or chime in.

Sunset animation on Sol 818. Color processing with an other color picture of a sunny rising.


(click on the picture to enlarge : 1,2 Mo gif)

Nice Sunset! What is the name of the hill?

The 'hill' is the southeastern part of the rim of Thira. Nice work Damien!

Compare;

http://www.awalkonmars.com/A1620PAM8L7R1E1-01.jpg

Nico

Sunrise! Sunset! Solrise! Solset!
Gotta love all this imagery work going on from UMSF'ers.
I know there have been a few requests for an SFX version of the Sunset Panorama.
I am working on it. Just taking some time with it as I really want to get the lighting and shadows right.

In the meantime, here's the background I'll be using.
Thanks to Nico for the starting point Your colours were definitely the best around.
I've enhanced it a little, improvements to vignettes, sky, foreground, shadows, etc just to flesh it out.

Click image for larger version: 860k NB: A full resolution version available on request: 6.8mb

Enjoy
Astro0
MyMERSFX

Aldo, thanks forwarding us the J.Bell comments!
Astro0, I must admit your sunset version is probably the best one, I like to see how each of us gived some contribution to reach perfection! Now you know what to do, let SFX asap!!!

Yeah! Beautiful colors! Especially the smooth red color of the crests of Allegheny Ridge.

Very nice, Astro0.

Mmm... I don't think so. That's a sunset, not a sunrise, and Thira is in the east, I thought.

The hill is at about -73 degrees ground-relative azimuth (slightly north of west) - somebody with a map can figure out which hill it is.

Here's the context view due west:

Oh... my.... god.... A thing of beauty Astro... a thing of beauty....

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/d...rtian-dirt.html

NASA's Spirit rover, now safely holed up for the forthcoming Martian winter, is poised to start digging in the dirt.

Only one 'candidate hill':

- http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...FP2292R1M1.HTML