Opportunity Route Map |
Opportunity Route Map |
Feb 11 2005, 08:11 AM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
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Jan 12 2019, 05:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
Here's a big project I've been working on. I put together a seamless CTX mosaic of the Meridiani Planum landing site and colorized it with HRSC data. The basic version just has Oppy's traverse and its position at the start of each New Year. I did this in Photoshop and the most accurate way I could find was to hand trace the traverse route as a separate layer (It's CTX scale so I don't need to beat Phil's accuracy ).
Opportunity Meridiani Planum Traverse Route I go to university in New York and wanted to get a sense of the terrestrial scale, so I found a vector roadmap from the NYC planning board and added a scale version of it over the top of the traverse route. Opportunity's starting position is in the Hayden Planetarium and its current (final?) location is about a block shy of overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Rockaway Beach. Would be fun to do with other cities if there was interest and I could track down a vectorized roadmap. Opportunity Meridiani Planum Traverse - NYC streetmap scale |
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Jan 14 2019, 10:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
...Would be fun to do with other cities if there was interest and I could track down a vectorized roadmap... Beautiful indeed! I'll venture to guess that many of us on the west coast including myself having never left a footprint on NY regolith would love such a map of our own region, and San Francisco seems a great fit. Naturally the starting location could be Morrison Planetarium at the CA Academy of Sciences, and eyeballing it looks as if Oppy would make it well out of the city to any number of promising outcrops, so if you're interested, here's one perhaps suitable map source |
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Jan 16 2019, 12:11 AM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
... and San Francisco seems a great fit.... San Francisco has quite steep roads for sure but I don't recall 30 degrees slopes there. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Jan 18 2019, 07:54 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 507 Joined: 10-September 08 Member No.: 4338 |
San Francisco has quite steep roads for sure but I don't recall 30 degrees slopes there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ALombar...steepest_street! Filbert and 22nd both have portions with 31.5 degree slopes. |
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