HiRise Imagery of Opportunity's trek, ...or, a blast from the past |
HiRise Imagery of Opportunity's trek, ...or, a blast from the past |
Dec 3 2006, 07:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Like a lot of people, the new HiRise imagery has had me scrambling to learn about JPEG2000 (jp2) files, and trying to find software and plugins for manipulating and editing them. A lot of that discussion has been taking place in the MRO 2005 topic. We now have two MRO passes providing amazing stereo over much of Opportunity's trek, and it sounds as if we will soon have some Spirit coverage. I can hardly wait for that.
Anyway, I'm starting this thread for anyone wanting to post new HiRise imagery of places Opportunity has explored in the past. I'll start it with an anaglyph. Even though Meridiani is pretty flat, the MRO images were so fine that I really wanted to see how much detail I could get from them. Spectacular Victoria has already been nicely done, so I had to look elsewhere. I thought Beagle Crater and the transition to Victoria's annulus would be of interest to some people. I'll post this as a jpg that fits the forum size limit, but should we sometimes use the better jp2 format even though all users may not be prepared to view them? -------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Dec 4 2006, 11:56 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Dec 5 2006, 04:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Bouncey bouncey.... Look at the third bounce in that image. It catches the edge of a very small crater which then deflects the direction of motion off to the left a bit..just enough to put her down in Eagle. In makes me think that if that first bounce had been just a half meter farther south, it would have missed that little crater and bounced on up to the northeast of Eagle Crater, missing it entirely. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 5 2006, 05:22 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
It catches the edge of a very small crater Yup - not quite visible in this but you are right... http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA05227.jpg I've looked for bounces at Gusev....no luck ( maybe the first, but none after that ) Doug |
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