Duck Bay, Victoria arrival point |
Duck Bay, Victoria arrival point |
Sep 28 2006, 03:15 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Now yes - while it's fair to say we have arrived at the rim of Vic - the rule were that the 'arrival' date would be the sol at which the rover arrives at the point from which the mother-of-all-pans is taken... so we're not there yet. (i.e. We'll probably take photos when we arrive in Valencia on Sat PM - but personally, I wont feel I've arrived till the following morning when I have a look out the window....and you're right Fred - it's that FIRST big MOAP that is the important one )
But that doesn't mean we can't have a new thread Doug |
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Sep 29 2006, 04:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Well, now that we've "officially" arrived, the mystery men have come out of hiding. They were a little shy at first, hiding amongst the cliffs, but have emerged to welcome us to Vicky with their amicable waves.
Notice the men down in the dunes and those scattered along the far rim - navcam can barely resolve them at those distances. The pan is from Michael Howard's superb sol 952 navcam pan. Horton, I think your man on Frio matches my man's height almost exactly! |
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Sep 29 2006, 10:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 30-March 05 Member No.: 223 |
Well, now that we've "officially" arrived, the mystery men have come out of hiding. They were a little shy at first, hiding amongst the cliffs, but have emerged to welcome us to Vicky with their amicable waves. Notice the men down in the dunes and those scattered along the far rim - navcam can barely resolve them at those distances. The pan is from Michael Howard's superb sol 952 navcam pan. Horton, I think your man on Frio matches my man's height almost exactly! PHANTASTIC, fredk !!! I must admit that I'm one of the unfortunate ones whoe doesn't seem to get a grip on viewing the 3D images (the x-eye anaglyphs only cause eye strain and headaches for me and ed-green glasses also didn't do the trick for me But, Wow: your Mystery men (esecially if distributed over the whole image) are more than a substitute for the missing 3D effect ! I can say that among all the many images, be it navcam,pnacam,b/w, color or 3D, it is your mystery-men-pan that gave me, for the first time, the first *real* impression of scale and sense of "being there" on mars looking at a real landscape ... Phantastic, Unbelievable ! P.S.: when I first saw the mystery men I thought that it would be even better to use men in space suits for more realism... but now I'm convinced that it's actually better to use the more abstract form of just the shilouette of the waving man thereby not even trying to pretend "false realism" but just using the men as some abstract points (i.e. "semantically outside" the real image content) just as a optical point of orientation for the human vision, just simple and brilliant ! |
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