MSL Curiosity Lands Safely in Gale Crater, Landing and Commissioning Activity Period 1A, sols 0-8 |
MSL Curiosity Lands Safely in Gale Crater, Landing and Commissioning Activity Period 1A, sols 0-8 |
Aug 16 2012, 11:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 252 Joined: 5-May 05 From: Mississippi (USA) Member No.: 379 |
Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity tweeted:
For more mission news, tune in Fri, Aug 17 10:30am PT (1730 UT): http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL. NASA To Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT, 1730 UTC), Friday, Aug. 17, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are checking out Curiosity's subsystems and 10 instruments. Curiosity is in the opening days of a two-year mission to investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life. Mission team members are "living" on Mars time. A Martian day is approximately 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, meaning team members start their shift 40 minutes later each day. The scheduling of this teleconference and other Curiosity media events is determined by their availability. Visuals will be available at the start of the teleconference at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon. |
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Aug 16 2012, 11:36 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 7-August 12 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 6493 |
Two still missing and my stitcher freaked out a bit and left a horizontal line across the image but apart from that... Wow! I especially like that wheel: Curiosity's wheel Wow indeed! |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:35 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 161 Joined: 12-August 12 From: Hillsborough, NJ Member No.: 6546 |
Two still missing and my stitcher freaked out a bit and left a horizontal line across the image but apart from that...Wow! Nice job! Wow! I can't get the new images into my pano. Would you mind me asking what program you're using? This is killing me! -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:41 AM
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That brings the details of the stratifications into much clearer focus, yes. Using Photoshop's levels calibration tool and curiosity as a base for calibrating the black, gray, and white values here's a white balanced version of the whole base of Mt. Sharp. Oh my, there's some interesting stuff up there... http://www.edtruthan.com/mars/MSL-Sol2-Mt....te-Balanced.jpg I tried photoshop on one of the images--here's an after and before with white balance, levels and contrast applied: -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Experimenting with an interactive VR version as they seem to be popular right now:
http://www.nivnac.co.uk/mer/vr/msl3/ @iMPREPREX I'm using Hugin it sometimes takes a bit of effort to get it to work with >100 images. Years of trial and error with MER has helped! -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 161 Joined: 12-August 12 From: Hillsborough, NJ Member No.: 6546 |
Thanks, James. I'm trying Hugin. I got the control points set, but I can't merge them. It's a complicated program!
I have the pano minus the new images and I can set the points, but can't execute it. Time to Google! -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 06:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Experimenting with an interactive VR version as they seem to be popular right now: Fantastic experience, I feel really in that place! Thanks. -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Aug 17 2012, 09:36 AM
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Hopefully this is a new link for everyone; John Grotzinger's lucid introduction to Martian geology presented during the Mars Society 2012 convention on 3 August:
John Grotzinger's MSL presentation (see especially from 13 minutes onwards) -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 09:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
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Aug 17 2012, 10:55 AM
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Hopefully this is a new link for everyone; John Grotzinger's lucid introduction to Martian geology presented during the Mars Society 2012 convention on 3 August: John Grotzinger's MSL presentation (see especially from 13 minutes onwards) What he talks about at the 28:28-35 second mark might explain what we are seeing in this mastcam image http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...8000E1_DXXX.jpg |
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Aug 17 2012, 11:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Excellent James, as usual How many times does it take with your Hugin to export the full size ? For me it tooks more than an hour (on my Macbook Pro late 2007, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Go of RAM).
The result here : Two more frame, just two more frame an it will be done (except if some pics on Mount Sharp are expected). Edit : Sol 2 Navcam pan is actually complete -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 161 Joined: 12-August 12 From: Hillsborough, NJ Member No.: 6546 |
Two still missing and my stitcher freaked out a bit and left a horizontal line across the image but apart from that... Wow! Hey James - just one more thing: Where did you find 0003ML0000103000E1_DXXX ??? (103) I'm getting an access denied. But incredible job. Incredible. I'm using algorithims. You're doing it the hard way. Much respect. -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
For me it tooks more than an hour (on my Macbook Pro late 2007, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Go of RAM). Yeah, I used the brute force method this time and it took over an hour to blend (iMac, Early 2008, C2D, 4Gb). For big MER pans I tend optimise the order that images are blended which can speed this up dramatically. I'm working on a method of doing that automatically for MSL. This was required back in my G4 Powerbook days when it would take all day to do a full 360 Pancam panorama without careful optimisation. Where did you find 0003ML0000103000E1_DXXX ??? (103) I'm getting an access denied. It is E2 rather than E1 http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...3000E2_DXXX.jpg -------------------- |
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Aug 17 2012, 12:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Aug 17 2012, 01:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
Fantastic! At this point I almost enjoy the self-portraits more than the first panoramas, just to see again that all the pieces parts are indeed in the right place and in good order. It's still hard t' believe.
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