Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond |
Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond |
May 16 2010, 08:20 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 27-May 09 From: Burgundy Member No.: 4798 |
Thanks nprev but i spoke about the dark spot in front of Endeavour and not about the crater on Iazu.
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May 16 2010, 09:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I think it's a cobble of some kind but too small to resolve it in the picture.
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May 16 2010, 09:36 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I look forward to the official version of course, ... Hmmm. I'm not so sure there will be an "official version". I might be wrong... usually am... used to that... and they must have taken those images for a reason... but I reckon the MER guys are - understandably - too busy steering Oppy and planning the journey to do much work on this. Apart from on rare occasions, like the recent "Moment In Time" image, images are taken for practical reasons. But you never know, maybe someone there will give it a go. I'd love to see what they do with it too... but personally I think the work being done here by people like Astro0, FredK, Ant and others is more than good enough to keep me happy. In fact, I greatly preferred the Forum's versions of the "faraway hills" view to the official one. I think the "pretty picture" making is up to us, guys... and that's okay by me. -------------------- |
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May 16 2010, 03:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
We've seen other super-res sequences released publicly, like those of Victoria's cliffs. I can't imagine they wouldn't compile it themselves, since they sequenced it, and as soon as they see what they've got, they've got to want to release it. I do look forward to their version, since it'll be properly super-res, unlike my quick and dirty attempt.
Bill and Tesheiner, that black spot is close to the horizon, so it's really far away, so it could be quite large. At first I thought this super-res was just to image the rim, but now I'm wondering whether they might be interested in imaging the route ahead, looking for potential meteorites/science stops on the way. Once the view's opened up, as it seems to be doing now, we should get a good view of the route ahead. |
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May 16 2010, 03:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 4172 |
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May 16 2010, 06:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 235 Joined: 2-August 05 Member No.: 451 |
Wow! The hi-resolution parts of the rim are amazing, especially toward the right edge of the above. I'm curious about the fairly bright sloping lines there. Has the MRO HiRes given us any details of that area yet?
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May 17 2010, 03:59 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
Exploratorium is rebooting the server or something. BIG update tonight.
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May 17 2010, 05:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
It's not as big as it appears. It contains a lot of older images that were downlinked earlier. I found 37 new images in the batch. We've seen this sort of thing happen before at Exploratorium.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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May 17 2010, 06:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
Hence the reboot.
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May 17 2010, 12:56 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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May 20 2010, 04:50 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here's the current view from that pancam sequence, with about 8x vertical stretch - or astoogmatism.
Some details in the distant plains are becoming visible. Phil (PS - oops, put it in the wrong thread!) - Fixed that for you - Mod PPS - hint to camera guys - a full 360 horizon pancam strip would be nice right about now! -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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May 20 2010, 08:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
It's taken me a while to get this finished and convince myself that it has a possibility of being right.
Anyway, here is may attempt to match the features in Fredk's stacked image with a reprojected CTX image: James -------------------- |
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May 20 2010, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Another tour-de-force James! I think you're spot on. I've been comparing Nirgal's 3D renderings with the latest view and your identifications fit with my tentative impressions.
BTW have you had a go at those peaks beyond (to the right of) Iazu yet? That seems to be the only part of the horizon for which you haven't provided a definitive key. |
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May 21 2010, 10:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2997 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
And the ground-hugging haze (particulate, actually) layer is becoming more distinct now.
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May 21 2010, 12:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
This is about the dark feature on the plains in front of Iazu that shows up very clearly on Phil's horizon stretch. That image also shows that the surface the feature is sitting on curves downward to the right into an invisible depression. I have found features on the CTX that may correspond and will try to post an image somehow shortly.
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