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jaywee

Apr 26 2006, 04:10 AM

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Greetings folks,

ESA recently released map projected version of HSRC images, including orbit 1183 when MEX took a look at Meridiani Planum and Oppy's landing site. Which allows me to present you... the first color image of Victoria!

It's created from the HSRC Red, Green, Blue channels which have resolution of 56.2m/pixel.

Since it is just simple GIMP color composite, I wouldn't rather trust the colors completely, but still figured you'd like to see it

I also tried the ESA supplied HSRC reader tool and the result was virtually identical, albeit I'm unsure whether one shouldn't apply some transformations. Trying to find some docs on it

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Vladimorka

Apr 26 2006, 06:38 AM

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Simple color adjustments and it looks more like Mars :-)

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dilo

Apr 26 2006, 08:41 AM

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My attempt, with larger coverage.

Original image dynamic is poor and this affect the result...

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Nix View Member Profile	Apr 26 2006, 11:23 AM Post #4
Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136	Nice results though! Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek. http://500px.com/sacred-photons &

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Apr 26 2006, 02:16 PM Post #5
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Where would Opportunity be in those images in relation to Victoria now? I am so used to seeing Victoria close up that seeing how small it is compared to that other Martian crater was an initial surprise. If the rover survives, any chance they will try for that really big crater? What is its name? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

djellison View Member Profile	Apr 26 2006, 02:44 PM Post #6
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Opportunity is about 2 - 3 Victoria diameters to the NW Doug

jaywee View Member Profile	Apr 26 2006, 03:13 PM Post #7
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-April 05 From: Pilsen, CZ, EU Member No.: 363	QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Apr 26 2006, 04:16 PM) Where would Opportunity be in those images in relation to Victoria now? I am so used to seeing Victoria close up that seeing how small it is compared to that other Martian crater was an initial surprise. If the rover survives, any chance they will try for that really big crater? What is its name? Doubt it - The crater seems to be 13.4km away and has diameter of 23km.

Nix View Member Profile	Apr 26 2006, 06:02 PM Post #8
Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136	Miracles happen -sometimes. If the larger crater would be another 3 kilometers or so away I might be willing to make a bet but it's just to far for a 'tired' rover. Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek. http://500px.com/sacred-photons &

Pando View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 03:29 PM Post #9
The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73	The thing is, at ground level the big large crater to the south-east would look really boring - just a bunch of slowly rolling hills, barely noticeable...

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 03:46 PM Post #10
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	Any Endurance sized crater nearby?

djellison View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 04:45 PM Post #11
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Looking at http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/0...Ellipse_25m.gif - there's nothing out there after Victoria realistically - the large feature to the SE if you wanted a suicide run of big blind drives and to hell with the risk... Doug

aldo12xu View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 05:04 PM Post #12
Member Group: Members Posts: 320 Joined: 19-June 04 Member No.: 85	The large patch of outcrop to the southeast would seem to be a good long term target. At least we'd be moving updip and seeing younger portions of the stratigraphy. I don't think they'd want to go east or west as that would be more or less along the same stratigraphic horizon. After the southeast outcrops, we might as well throw a "Hail Mary Pass" and try and go for the huge crater farther to the southeast. The interior or walls of the crater might show deeper portions of the Burns Formation which might be correlatable to the units we saw at Endurance and Erebus, or even below those units. Like, Nico said, miracles can happen......sometimes........maybe...........with luck http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/...ages/E11-01328/ -------------------- http://www.marsgeo.com/

elakdawalla View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 05:24 PM Post #13
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454	Dilo, what's the scale on your version? Is there a color HRSC image of the Spirit landing site yet? One thing that I think would be a neat comparison -- if it is possible to do with this data set -- would be to put Spirit and Oppy site views side by side, with the same color adjustments applied to both. I'm curious how the color/brightness of the Oppy site compares to Spirit's. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.

djellison View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 05:33 PM Post #14
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Not sure of the orbit number ( which is how the images are arranged ) but http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=34531 The center of the Gusev crater with the landing site of the NASA Spirit rover marked with a cross. The image was taken by the HRSC instrument in colour and 3D on 16 January 2004 from a height of 320 km. (Managed to do an order via the RSSD Esa 'thingie'. Dan - would your technique for radiometric processing of this stuff be suitable for public consumption.) Doug

Bill Harris View Member Profile	Apr 27 2006, 05:59 PM Post #15
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105	>The large patch of outcrop to the southeast would seem to be a good long term target. At least we'd be moving updip... Aldo, where do you get that dip direction? I don't recall seeing anything "official" on the bedding dip. Oppy will be heading downhill to Victoria and that means stratigraphically lower (assuming essentially flat bedding). --Bill -------------------- Dawn-- Ceres Pluto Encounter Rosetta Mission

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