Spirit retrospective, - a few details from my current project Options

[Phil Stooke]

I'm working on Spirit at the moment. I will post a few examples of things as I go.

Right now the important job is updating the contemporary route map by locating the stops on HiRISE images. The existing maps at JPL, for the early part of the mission, were plotted on MOC images with inferior resolution and lighting, so I find many locations were about 15 or 20 m out. So at every site I am making circular panoramas (examples later) for comparison with HiRISE. Here's a first example, a map of the route during the Primary Mission. I have added a few extra placenames from the MER Analyst's Notebook at PDS.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

Looking back at our dear departed Spirit one more time...

This is an image of Phobos made by Spirit during the sol 675 eclipse ingress sequence. I collected six 16 bit frames from the PDS, stretched the contrast, enlarged each frame x3, sharpened it, stretched the contrast more for the part wholly on the disk, and combined them - in effect the super-resolution process. I don't recall seeing Stickney so clearly before from the surface.

Phil