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Phil Stooke
post Feb 26 2014, 02:14 AM
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I am updating my route map to show a new estimate of the current position which has been relayed to me privately. That does not mean it is official or certain, only that it is suggested by somebody with connections. I hope to learn more at LPSC.

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post Feb 26 2014, 03:22 AM
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While the apparent closeness of the lander in the most recent images had made me think it likely they had moved closer, I clearly wasn't confident enough about that to say anything publicly. I would really love an LROC image right about now!


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post Feb 26 2014, 03:42 PM
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If the distance between the L and R cameras is known (big if?), or could be measured from a lander photo, it would be simple to measure the distance from the lander in the new stereo pair.
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post Feb 26 2014, 04:08 PM
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Not necessarily. The relative position of the two cameras have huge effects on triangulation. On the other hand if in the image you had features of known size and distance, you could estimate the size and distance of other objects.

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post Feb 26 2014, 04:19 PM
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Yes, that's what I meant - if you knew the relative separation of the L and R rover cameras, then you can find the distance to the lander. I know information is sparse with this mission. But it may be possible to measure the L/R separation from a lander photo of the rover at known distance, or simply by comparing the L/R separation to the total width of the rover, if that's known reasonably well.

Knowing the L/R separation of the rover cameras (orthogonal to their optical axes), then it's a simple matter of trig to convert the measured parallax between the lander and the distant horizon (effectively at infinity) to the lander distance.

(Maybe this is what you meant Paolo - without an absolute direction reference, we could not do this, since the L/R optical axes may not be parallel. But we do have such a reference, given by features on the distant horizon in the images.)
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post Feb 26 2014, 05:20 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Feb 26 2014, 08:19 AM) *
if you knew the relative separation of the L and R rover cameras


AND the degree of toe in, if any.
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post Feb 26 2014, 05:29 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Feb 26 2014, 08:19 AM) *
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(Maybe this is what you meant Paolo - without an absolute direction reference, we could not do this, since the L/R optical axes may not be parallel. But we do have such a reference, given by features on the distant horizon in the images.)


Yes, that's what I meant. There is some literature on uncalibrated stereo but worked very little on that topic. Features on the horizon might be helpful to determine the vergence but you still need an object of known size in the images.

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post Feb 26 2014, 06:46 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 26 2014, 05:20 PM) *
AND the degree of toe in, if any.
That can be measured in pixels by looking at the shift in features on the distant horizon (effectively at infinity).

The basic problem is that we need to know the pixel scale of the camera to convert pixels to an angle. Equivalently, as Paolo says, we need an object of known size and distance to give us a known angle. I'm used to MER/MSL, where we have that info easily available. But I'm guessing that's not the case with this mission.

In principle, we could estimate the pixel scale since we have 360 degree pans. So if we can match distant features between the 360 and these new L/R images, we could estimate angles. Or, we could look at rover pancam images from the first lunar days and estimate the pixel scale from the (presumably) known size of the lander and distance from Phil's map. Then you have to assume/guess that those images are full frame rather than cropped.

Either way, a lot of work.
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post Mar 4 2014, 08:00 PM
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Very quick update based on the new LROC images.

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Very interesting! If you look back you will see that the two southern points I mapped earlier were from big display screens in the control room. But of course they might have been target positions rather than real positions. The fact that we never saw a close-up image of the big rock suggests they did not get right up beside it. The tracks are not resolved well enough to be certain of the path here and they might have gone closer.

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post Mar 4 2014, 10:42 PM
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That's very strange. I'm looking at the same images and seeing a simpler track closer to your original one, Phil. Where do you get all the new zigzags from? (And why would they execute them anyway?)
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Phil Stooke
post Mar 4 2014, 11:12 PM
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I overlaid the image on my map to get the location exactly right. Other than that it's a matter of interpretation, which marking is part of the track. But I will be looking at it again for a more finished version.

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post Mar 23 2014, 06:43 PM
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This is a new version of the route map, as complete as I can make it now.

It is based on Chinese maps from the first lunar day, near the lander, and a Chinese map shown at LPSC, modified from my own examination of tracks in images, including a vertical projection of tracks from the middle of day 2, also shown at LPSC. The rover location is from the LROC images and it slightly updates the Chinese map shown at LPSC.

Dots are stops between drives, and square symbols are science locations shown on the Chinese map. The dates shown for each stop are my estimates but they may not be correct, as we have almost no reliable information to go on.

The rover is shown to scale (approximately) but I don't know its orientation.

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post Apr 14 2014, 07:28 AM
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I have read a new magazine
科学世界/Newton , 2014, issue 4:
http://www.kxsj.com/html/zixundongtai/zixu...320/103649.html

it gave us a official yutu route map
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Phil Stooke
post Apr 14 2014, 11:09 AM
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This is the same map shown on a poster at LPSC in March. My map was based on the new map, but there are places where other information was used to add to my map, especially images of tracks. If you compare this with the LRO image you see that the final rover location is further NE than the site at the end of this map.

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post Apr 14 2014, 06:31 PM
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Numbers of positions appear to be straightforward: Nddnn points to lunar day dd, point nn, and a sequential number is added in paretheses. But what is E2, S3, N and H?
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