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 Feb 18 2006, 12:58 PM
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 Member  Group: Members Posts: 486 Joined: 19-February 05 From: France, close to Paris (& 5mn drive from Meudon Observatory) Member No.: 172  |
After discussions with some friends at NASA, I think it's now time for a minimum kind of "Rush & Save" mission at HP in which they grab as much as they can, pack, and roll to Mc Cool Hill. In this "Rush & Save" program, the next target is the "bright" outcrops located at the other edge of HP (if reachable).
As a matter of fact, they want to bring back as much data as they can, because no one really knows in which shape Spirit will be after surviving it's next winter, with maybe no possibilities of moving great distances again... and thus not being able to go back to HP. As General Patton said in France in 1944 : "Never miss an opportunity to go !" QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Feb 17 2006, 08:14 PM)  Finally made it! I wish that Spirit had walked the outcrop around the bluff, but the mission planners decided against that. So here we are, on Homeplate looking towards Pitchers Mound. And what a sight it is: here is a cropped, tweaked and stretched Sol 755 view to contemplate. I see a low area of wind deflation in the left foreground and an outcrop area in midground. We can get a feel for the structure of Homeplate from the exaggerated slope on the right, and Pitchers Mound beckons.
Any thoughts on where she'll go next? --Bill |
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Feb 18 2006, 04:47 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2164 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
More sol 755 images are up at JPL, as well as some navcams from sol 756.
-------------------- ...Tom (thinks he should use more emoticons)
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Feb 18 2006, 06:40 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2249 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
In fact, rear NavCam from Sol756...
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Feb 18 2006, 07:39 PM
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 Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1374 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Belgium Member No.: 136 |
 wow! that's the kind of lookback-view at Husband Hill and Haskin ridge that I've been longing to see.Nico -------------------- |
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Feb 18 2006, 09:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2254 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Yes indeed. I think that the ultimate lookback would be from thetop of Pitchers Mound across Homeplate to Ultreya and Husband Hill.
With dust devils, of course. --Bill -------------------- |
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Feb 18 2006, 09:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2249 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Sol 755 - Panoramic Camera - West view.
50% scale stitch and 4x vertical stretch. -------------------- - Marco -
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Feb 18 2006, 10:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1026 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
Added another image.
A panoramic view taken on Sol 751, 753, 754 and 755 with the L0 navcam. jvandriel
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Feb 19 2006, 02:05 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2127 Joined: 9-February 04 From: UK Member No.: 16 |
All the Gibson pan images taken on Sol 748 are all down* (6x3), an update is on my site (only two extra frames). Now if they would only hurry up with the rest of it!
 James *Although one L7 (far right middle) is still mostly missing on the JPL site - for this I've used the 200x200 stamp image from the tracking site - works well when combined with the full res L2 and L5, you can hardly tell. I don't know why the JPL version has not been updated, the full stamp of the EFF has been on the tracking site for several sols. EDIT: Replaced with an adjusted version to bring out details within shadows. This post has been edited by jamescanvin: Feb 19 2006, 04:12 AM -------------------- My MER & MSL Imagery site - Martian Vistas ---- Twitter Feed (including sol by sol updates on Opportunity's activity)
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Feb 19 2006, 02:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2164 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Oh yeah, the lookback from Pitcher's Mound would be phenomenal, I would imagine.
I've been wanting a good view of the top of Home Plate through the pancams for a long time. Now that we have part of it in L7R1, I couldn't resist stitching them and making an anaglyph panorama. I had to compromise on size and compression to get the original 9 MB down below the limit, but the detail didn't suffer too badly.
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Feb 19 2006, 03:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
QUOTE (dilo @ Feb 18 2006, 04:52 PM) Sol 755 - Panoramic Camera - West view.
50% scale stitch and 4x vertical stretch. Dilo, good picture. I think that the leftmost and half height part of the picture shows an interesting hole that it might be the source of water fountain.  Have anyone ever identified that as a soft and smooth hole.Rodolfo |
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Feb 19 2006, 04:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2164 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Eight sol 757 pancams are available at JPL, but six of them are solar images. There are a lot of new pancams from older sols that I didn't download, so if you were waiting for something, it may be there.
-------------------- ...Tom (thinks he should use more emoticons)
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Feb 19 2006, 04:25 PM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 13-February 05 From: Germany - NRW Member No.: 168 |
Hy everyone,
Long time no see ! Wish i had more time to spend !  But, there was enough time to do my own version of "Gibson". Dirk,
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Feb 19 2006, 11:29 PM
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QUOTE (dilo @ Feb 18 2006, 10:52 PM) Sol 755 - Panoramic Camera - West view.
50% scale stitch and 4x vertical stretch. what a very nice view, dilo ! of course I couldn't resist this one to be seen in colors ;-) 
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Feb 20 2006, 03:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4522 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I took Dilo's two half pans from 755 and 756, joined them together (with a bit of fudging to get them to fit properly)... and made this polar version.
Phil
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Feb 20 2006, 04:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 529 |
Dirk,
I really like your colour version (vision )Reminds me of badlands deserts that I have seen. -------------------- -- Robin
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