Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond Options

[fredk]

To answer Ustrax's querries from the other thread, I think we can now see more of the south west rim of Endeavour and Iazu. In this image I've lined up the views from 1987 pancam (colour on bottom, from Astro in this post) and 2136 navcam (top, from Ant's navcam mosiac):

The leftmost (Endeavour north rim) and middle (far rim) features look similar. But it looks like we can see more stuff on the right, which is Endeavour south rim and Iazu. The view we had a few sols ago (2133) of Iazu was still partly obscured by dunes, so it makes sense that we can see more now.

I can't see Bopolu in the navcams, though it could be there and buried in the jpeg noise...

[Nirgal]

As long as there is no HiRISE DEM yet ... here is a quick try at creating a single-image-DEM from the CTX image T01_000873_1780_XI_02S005W.
(with the whole DEM consisting of about 10 million polygons which is currently about the limit that my software's core math solvers can handle. So the next project I'm working on is to port and compile my sources into a true 64-bit application such that it can make use of the full 12 GB main memory under Vista 64 (I know, I know I should use a Mac, really -> so maybe in the near future it will be able to generate DEMs with 50-100 million polygons.

some oblique views of the area between Victoria and Endeavour:





And the last image is how it might look like from the ground. However, I did not select a special viewing direction ... just played around with the camera position and rotation until it looked good ... ah yes, and the vertical height is somewhat exaggerated too