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MSL data in the PDS and the Analyst's Notebook, Working with the archived science & engineering data
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post Feb 7 2017, 02:06 AM
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A few mosaics I've been putting together from the Zabriskie Plateau/Hidden Valley portion of the traverse. Most of these are just standard mosaics, but with the crater rim and sky patched in to give a fuller sense of what it would have been like to be standing there.


Traversing Zabriskie Plateau - Sol 692

I particularly like this one. I don't think we ever got a full MastCam view of Hidden Valley once Curiosity was inside, just a couple shots from the entrance/exit point. Fortunately Curiosity took a drive-direction mosaic pointed high enough that I could use the stereo images taken during a survey of the valley rim the next day. After that I could patch in the horizon from a 360 traverse panorama from a few sols earlier.


Inside Hidden Valley - Sol 709


Serene view of the crater floor from the rim of Hidden Valley:


Gale Crater Floor from the Hidden Valley Rim - Sol 713
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post Feb 27 2017, 08:23 PM
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For those of you who use MSL PDS data, I had an email conversation with Tom Stein at the Analyst's Notebook last week in which I discussed how I thought it would be better for the default product type on Mastcam images to be DRCX rather than DRCL and they seem to have made that switch. DRCL are "linearized" which means they're corrected for lens distortion but there's so little geometric distortion in Mastcam images that it just introduced a blur without much of any benefit. So now it feeds you DRCX by default instead -- color-calibrated but not linearized.


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post Mar 1 2017, 08:15 PM
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Another change has been made to the MSL analyst's notebook at my request. For the MMM cameras, when you download images, you can download them as PDS formatted IMGs, or as JPGs, or PNGs. I had assumed that the PNGs were made from the IMGs until I discovered that they contained JPG artifacts. They confirmed that the PNGs had been made from the JPGs. I asked whether they could make the PNGs from the IMGs instead, and they have now implemented that change. So now if you download a "0% stretch" PNG from the Analyst's Notebook, you will get an image that is identical to the archival IMG. Hooray!


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post Mar 1 2017, 09:42 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 2 2017, 04:15 AM) *
...So now if you download a "0% stretch" PNG from the Analyst's Notebook, you will get an image that is identical to the archival IMG. Hooray!


Great news, huge thanks to Emily and the team running the PDS. Hopefully we will see more folk working with the PDS data smile.gif
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post Mar 1 2017, 10:30 PM
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Just to be clear, some (in fact, most) of the data was originally downlinked from the rover with JPEG compression, so you'll still see those artifacts in images. You just won't be dealing with a second round of JPEG compression imposed upon the first.


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post Mar 17 2017, 12:04 AM
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Mars Science Laboratory Release 14

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the fourteenth release of data from
the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired from
Sol 1418 through Sol 1514 (August 1, 2016 to November 9, 2016).

This release consists of raw and derived data sets from the following
instruments:
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
Chemistry & Micro-Imaging (ChemCam)
Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)
Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcam)
Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
Mars Descent Imager (MARDI)
Mast-mounted Cameras (Mastcam)
Navigation Cameras (Navcam)
Position Localization and Attitude Correction Estimate Storage (PLACES)
Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD)
Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS)
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, Pointing C-Matrix, and Event kernels (SPICE)

To access the above data for this release:
https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_ser...-20170316.shtml
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post Aug 1 2017, 10:16 PM
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Mars Science Laboratory Release 15

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the fifteenth release of data from
the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired from
Sol 1515 through Sol 1648 (November 9, 2016, to March 26, 2017).

This release consists of raw and derived data sets from the following
instruments:
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
Chemistry & Micro-Imaging (ChemCam)
Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)
Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcam)
Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
Mars Descent Imager (MARDI)
Mast-mounted Cameras (Mastcam)
Navigation Cameras (Navcam)
Position Localization and Attitude Correction Estimate Storage (PLACES)
Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD)
Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS)
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, Pointing C-Matrix, and Event kernels (SPICE)

To access the above data for this release:
https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_ser...-20170801.shtml
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post Aug 9 2017, 07:17 PM
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On that day 5 years ago, Curiosity took its first color panorama. I stitched together this pano from the PDS PNG pics of sol 3 (+sol 13 for Mt Sharp).
Here it is in VR on RoundMe.


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post Dec 5 2017, 11:54 PM
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Mars Science Laboratory Release 16

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the sixteenth release of data from
the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired from
Sol 1649 through Sol 1772 (March 26 to August 1, 2017).

This release consists of raw and derived data sets from the following
instruments:
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
Chemistry & Micro-Imaging (ChemCam)
Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)
Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcam)
Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
Mars Descent Imager (MARDI)
Mast-mounted Cameras (Mastcam)
Navigation Cameras (Navcam)
Position Localization and Attitude Correction Estimate Storage (PLACES)
Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD)
Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS)
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, Pointing C-Matrix, and Event kernels (SPICE)

The Mastcam and MARDI releases include newly published technical papers, which are included in the Documents directory.

To access the above data for this release:
https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_ser...-20171205.shtml
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post Dec 8 2017, 11:56 PM
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Hi smile.gif

Today I've been working on a previous pan I worked with, in March. But with the difference it was made with pds datas. And the result is way beyond expectations.

See bellow :



And for comparizon, the first version, made with bayererd-jpegized-unbayered pics :



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post Dec 9 2017, 01:22 AM
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ohmy.gif ....that's just ridiculous. Astounding work, Damia.


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post Jan 6 2018, 10:22 AM
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I realize that this is in the wrong thread but I dont know where to put it and I think it may be extremely useful to followers of MSL and MER missions.

The Analyst's Notebook has a wonderful measuring tool built into the drawing tool for stereo paired images. I accidentally discovered the tool while browsing the community forum.

Link to its Image Viewer help page LINK

Link to the Measurement Tool help page LINK

This LINK walks you through opening an example image and provides several screen shots on using the menus etc.

It's worth spending some time looking at this as it is really feature rich. I have tested it on MSL NavCams in the and James Sorenson tested on a selection of MER images also in the Analyst's Notebook

Example annotated NavCam frame from sol 1001:
Attached Image


Mods: Apologies if this was already covered by an earlier post. I will leave it to you to decide where this should be placed to get maximum attention. Moved! --Mod.
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post Jan 19 2018, 07:41 PM
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Late dawn observation on Sol 782 (October 18, 2014), presumably attempting to image Comet Siding Spring in twilight. I didn't catch sight of the comet in the raw data (too faint and the sky too dusty) but it is a pretty spectacular scene.

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post Jan 19 2018, 09:12 PM
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Yeah, the comet was far from closest approach that morning, and I think was only spotted the next night on 783. Check out the encounter thread for more details.
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post Jan 22 2018, 04:01 AM
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Curiosity took a kernel of a great MastCam mosaic on Sol 959 as it exited Artist's Drive. I've filled in a few gaps with a fortuitous MAHLI mosaic that was taken on the previous sol, and from a MastCam pan that was taken on Sol 931.

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