To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! |
To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! |
Jun 23 2008, 12:07 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
New pancam images are up...
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...ncam/2008-06-23 ...but boy, they're a mess! If you hate lens flare don't go and look, it's everywhere, obliterating detail on the cliffs... and I think there are a few "sunrise" images too but they're very small... -------------------- |
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Jun 23 2008, 12:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
What do you mean? The pancams of the cliff are exposed for the shadows, so the highlights are going to be overexposed, and with the dust-covered protective windows in sunlight, there is going to be a loss of contrast. Nothing that can't be processed out of the images.
Not optimum, but hardly a mess. http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P2445L7M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P2445L7M1.JPG -------------------- |
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Jun 23 2008, 12:46 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Well, good luck "processing" something out of this...
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P2445L6M1.JPG and this... http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P2445L5M1.JPG Ok, point taken... some, not all, are a mess. -------------------- |
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Jun 23 2008, 12:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
After four+ years, my jaw still hangs open at what we're getting from these rovers!
Great QT, mike! |
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Jun 23 2008, 02:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
New pancam images are up... Just to be clear, the newest of the new batch of pancams are from sol 1562 (apart from the solar filter shots), when we were much farther from the cliff than we are now. They were experimenting with exposures to try bring out detail in the shadows, which lead to severe bleeding from the sunlit areas. I have to say, I actually thought some of these heavily-bleeded images looked kind of cool, like this one. |
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Jun 23 2008, 03:00 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I have to say, I actually thought some of these heavily-bleeded images looked kind of cool, like this one. Oh god, I can see Certain People claiming these are martian stromatolites or vegetation or something, and were deliberately airbrushed out of photos taken later... -------------------- |
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Jun 23 2008, 04:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
Three frame stitch:
http://paranoid.dechengst.nl/mars/are%20we...apa%20smurf.jpg (500 KB) Looks like we'll need HDR imaging to get good results overall. -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 24 2008, 12:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Yeah that overexposed stuff is from sol 1562 (seven sols ago). A few images came down from sol 1569, but all sky. Looks like we need to be patient.
P.S. Thanks for the comments on the QTVR. All I actually did was was export the frames from MMB and load the .pts file into PTGui. Whole process took a few minutes. Okay, I adjusted the image brightnesses first, which took a little longer. |
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Jun 24 2008, 06:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
I have great expectations.
Sol Seq.Ver ETH ESF EDN EFF ERP Tot Description ----- -------- --- --- --- --- --- ---- ----------- 01570 p2265.06 40 40 0 0 2 82 pancam_cape_verde_10pts_L257R2 -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jun 24 2008, 02:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
One of the first closeup pancams, from sol 1570:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...B0P2265L2M1.JPG Lot's more to come! |
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Jun 24 2008, 03:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
I truly suck at color correction:
http://paranoid.dechengst.nl/mars/Cape%20V...ee%20frames.jpg (570 KB) -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 24 2008, 07:16 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Jun 24 2008, 07:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
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Jun 24 2008, 08:11 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Jun 24 2008, 09:47 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
... and I don't know about anyone else, but I'd be a bit worried about Oppy driving underneath something that looks this unstable...
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