Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness |
Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness |
Sep 29 2008, 03:13 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Opportunity is getting ready to embark on her most extraordinary journey, a true rover epic.
As information regarding how to win the distance are being collected here, and the emotional last views from Victoria Crater are being discussed here, I thought about creating a new thread that will surely become an obligatory stop as the tall peaks and other features of Endeavour start to rise in the horizon. Here we will be able to discuss the location of features seen from the distance, references that will help us understanding better what we are seing and that will, fortunately, feed our spirit across the long sail across the Meridiani sandwaves. Ultreya! I give it a kick with this navcam image, comparing it with Astro0's original (beautiful...) image: I'm sure James Canvin will correct me... EDITED: I can't resist...I tried! I honestly tried, but it is stronger than me...so many features ahead and not a single name?! Seriously, at Victoria we had features named after places visited by the vessel, and now for Endeavour? Assuming that Oppy will succeed on her quest will the mission keep the same policy, of naming places after Endeavour's tour? If so, there may be some names in common with Victoria... While we are ready to leave the port once more I remembered that we could start naming, internally, (in order to have catchier landmark references... ) these features, as they loom in the horizon, after the ship's crew. We could follow the order presented here. Let me just edit the image up there... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Sep 30 2008, 05:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Vastitas Borealis Member No.: 193 |
Fortunately I long ago downloaded and saved some images of Endeavour peaks from exploratorium, considering that those images no more seem to be available otherwise than in the JPL site. So, I had an idea to make a couple of long baseline anaglyphs of those peaks in the horizon. The stereo baseline is about 50 m, ie. the distance between Oppy's location in sol 950 (right eye images here) and sol 955 (left eye). The baseline is wide enough to clearly distinguish between horizon features, at about 3 km distance, and Endeavour objects, at about 15-35 km distance.
The images are 2x vertically stretched. Hopefully the anaglyph form works to you. |
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Sep 30 2008, 06:49 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Fortunately I long ago downloaded and saved some images of Endeavour peaks from exploratorium... marswiggle! Where have those anaglyphs been all this time?! Beautiful! Can you provide the original images? I am sure we can do something from it... charborob, I am pretty sure James nailed Cook, the doubt is about the twin peaks, dubbed here Banks and Solander, but if Mr. Canvin got it right once I am following is line of work... btw...those guys at drivability analisys are way beyond us...we're already there! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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