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Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond
Bill
post May 16 2010, 08:20 AM
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Thanks nprev but i spoke about the dark spot in front of Endeavour and not about the crater on Iazu.
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post May 16 2010, 09:18 AM
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I think it's a cobble of some kind but too small to resolve it in the picture.
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post May 16 2010, 09:36 AM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ May 15 2010, 06:59 PM) *
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. smile.gif


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post May 16 2010, 03:12 PM
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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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post May 16 2010, 03:26 PM
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Here's Fredk's new real horizon view in context in Astro0's amazing artificial one, with the color taken from Astro's:
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post May 16 2010, 06:59 PM
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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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post May 17 2010, 03:59 AM
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Exploratorium is rebooting the server or something. BIG update tonight.
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post May 17 2010, 05:03 AM
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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.


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post May 17 2010, 06:50 AM
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Hence the reboot. wink.gif
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post May 17 2010, 12:56 PM
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A false colour interpretation of those distant hills. wink.gif
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post May 20 2010, 04:50 PM
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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.

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(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!


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post May 20 2010, 08:18 PM
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It's taken me a while to get this finished and convince myself that it has a possibility of being right. wink.gif

Anyway, here is may attempt to match the features in Fredk's stacked image with a reprojected CTX image:

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post May 20 2010, 09:15 PM
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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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post May 21 2010, 10:10 AM
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And the ground-hugging haze (particulate, actually) layer is becoming more distinct now.

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post May 21 2010, 12:54 PM
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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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