Google Mars HiRISE base images for Opportunity |
Google Mars HiRISE base images for Opportunity |
Sep 28 2010, 09:23 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Because it has become a forum FAQ, I've created this sticky thread containing information on where to obtain new base images for Opportunity's traverse for Google Mars, and for discussion on creating new ones. I will continue to add links to new base image layers to this first post as they become available.
New users: Download this 4-MB kml file and open it in Google Earth Then go to the last post in the Opportunity Route Map thread for the latest traverse map You need to download the new KML file each time in order to follow Opportunity's peregrinations. Google Mars comes with a color base image mosaic created from HRSC imagery. In addition, there is an inset full-resolution HiRISE image covering the area from the landing site at Eagle crater, through Victoria, up to the point between sol 2040 and 2041 (just west of Mackinac) where Opportunity drove off the map. Unfortunately, this Victoria crater HiRISE layer included within Google Mars is not perfectly registered to the HRSC base map. As far as is known, there is nothing to be done about that. Both John Cody's image layers and Eduardo Tesheiner's traverse maps are aligned with the inset HiRISE layer included with Google Mars, NOT to the HRSC base map. In June 2009 SFJCody posted a reduced-resolution mosaic of HiRISE tiles that cover the entire future traverse area including Endeavour's rim. I have made some small modifications to that map and have hosted it in a single file here (17 MB). Download the file, run Google Earth, select the Mars view, and File>Open the KMZ to view it. In September 2009 SFJCody posted another HiRISE base image, this one at full resolution, covering the Western Route and reaching not quite all the way to Santa Maria. Here is a link to the kml file (4 MB). Here is a link to a zipped version if you'd prefer to have it locally (256 MB) and I also wrote a blog entry about it. During the discussion below, in late 2010, I created a small tile that covers just the immediate area around Santa Maria. Here is a link to the kml file covering that region. In February 2011 Eduardo Tesheiner provided another set of base images covering the area from Santa Maria to Endeavour's rim. Here is a link to the kml file. If you would like to work from a local copy, you can download this 75 MB zip file and unzip it to a folder on your drive, then open the file PSP_010341_1775_RED.kml within it. All three base images can be loaded at once using this kml file (the same one that is linked to at the very top of this post). -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 8 2011, 11:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
I've found my religion, and it is Google Mars, via Saints Emily and Eduardo! Thanks so much
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Feb 8 2011, 11:34 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Don't forget to thank SFJCody -- he did the lion's share of the work getting earlier map updates done.
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Feb 9 2011, 12:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Thank you one and all for mapping,hosting and posting this... Just Awesome
-------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Feb 9 2011, 09:02 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 18-September 09 Member No.: 4946 |
I am so pleased right now that words can't describe it! EXCELLENT WORK. I am also happy that you have it all covered on the first topic now!
You guys are the best, many thanks to all of you who have made this possible! |
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Feb 9 2011, 11:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
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Feb 24 2011, 09:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 3-January 10 Member No.: 5156 |
Also from me very much thanks for the maps: Let's set the sail to Cape York!
-------------------- Need more input ...
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Apr 14 2011, 04:06 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
There's a lovely new color view of the northwest rim of Endeavour: http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_021892_1775
This makes me wonder what parts of Opportunity's path have been covered in color. It's a question I know I could answer myself if I had the time, but I don't. If I were going to answer it, I'd figure out which images crossed Opportunity's path and then identify the regions lacking color coverage..... -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Apr 14 2011, 04:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 14 2011, 04:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Thanks for posting that beautifully colored view...
I notice the related context swath was out-with Oppy's current travails... Is HiRISE planned to continue on Oppy's trek, by any routine ? Happy HiWISHES -------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Apr 14 2011, 08:02 AM
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This is a start on the colour coverage with the latest images.
If anyone would like a larger version (17.7mb) |
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Apr 14 2011, 05:14 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Tweaked the new HiRISE image of Cape York to make it look a little less garish, hopefully a little more natural, and then, just for fun - so not claiming mega-accuracy - dropped some 'virtual Oppys' onto it at various places, to show the scale of the features at Cape York...
This might be useful for our lower-tech members who can't access HiRISE images via the IAS Viewer, or the Google Mars images. Edit: more pix at: http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2011/...ew-of-cape-york -------------------- |
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Apr 14 2011, 05:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2090 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Oh wow!
Once we get on that color patch, that'd be as good a place as any to proclaim official 'arrival', right? For something this big, there's few well-defined borders.... |
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Apr 15 2011, 05:23 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Lovely view and I like those possible routes, Stu. Might the team forego those excursions in pursuit of the clays at Tribulation?
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May 19 2011, 10:30 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 31-May 10 From: Poland Member No.: 5362 |
Lately I've been working on HiRISE GE extension of Endeavour rim, the area south of Cape York. As a result I uploaded this kmz example. The procedure was as follows:
1. cropped PSP_010341_1775_RED using JP2_PDS/PDS_JP2 ("Area" option) 2. converted JP2 to png using "convert" (ImageMagick) 3. loaded png to GE, tuned North, South etc. coordinates and finally saved as kmz Surely this method is not optimal. As a consequence I have one big image being loaded so GE hangs a little bit while loading. But later it works ok At the beginning I wanted to use MapTiler (just as it was done in previous posts) but it produced strange results for this big png file. My tests with smaller example files looked more optimistic with that program. Here are some screenshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907406@N08/...088526/sizes/m/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907406@N08/...088544/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907406@N08/...088528/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907406@N08/...088534/sizes/l/ (here it looks that I need to work more on that ) I decided to upload kmz maybe sbd would like to use it... https://rapidshare.com/files/1768082589/tes...deavour_rim.kmz -------------------- Polish space portal covering up-to-date space news: www.kosmonauta.net
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May 20 2011, 06:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
That sounds great!
But, as you said, it's not optimal given the file size; actually, my laptop almost freeze during 1-2 minutes and finally finishes with a big "X" (can't display) instead of the real picture. I'll suggest you to keep working with MapTiler but splitting the big source file into smaller (e.g. 8000x8000) pieces first. At the beginning I wanted to use MapTiler (just as it was done in previous posts) but it produced strange results for this big png file. Could you detail it a little bit? QUOTE http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907406@N08/...088534/sizes/l/ (here it looks that I need to work more on that ) That's due to small differences in the lat/long coordinates you are using (in relation to the map I made). I can provide you with some data that should solve it, if you want. |
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