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Exploring Mt Sharp - The Dunes - Part 1: Bagnold Dunes, Site 51-53, Sol 1172-1273, November 24, 2015-March 6, 2016
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post Feb 29 2016, 08:19 PM
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Here is a postcard for Sol 1267...

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post Mar 1 2016, 06:26 PM
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First half of NAVCAM travel animation for Sol 1262 is 40 frames.
Here's a small preview of the left NAVCAM's view:
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And here is the full-size (512x256) stereo pair animation for Parallel and Cross-Eye viewing.

The second half of Sol 1262 travel is captured in 4 different NAVCAM angles and 1 front HAZCAM angle simultaneously.
Here are small, left camera previews:
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And here are the full-size (512x256) stereo pair animations for Parallel (N1, N2, N3, N4, FH) and Cross-Eye (N1, N2, N3, N4, FH) viewing.
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post Mar 2 2016, 05:45 AM
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Curiosity Mission Update from Lauren Edgar - Sols 1269-1270: Approaching Naukluft Plateau:
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/news/astrogeology/sols-1269-1270-approaching-naukluft-plateau
Here is Monday’s blog post (can we blame the delay on leap day?). Curiosity is currently making her way toward the Naukluft Plateau, and Monday’s plan was full of driving and remote sensing. On the first sol, Curiosity will acquire ChemCam and Mastcam observations of the target “Swartpunt.” Then we’ll drive toward the Naukluft Plateau, and acquire post-drive imaging to prepare for future targeting and document the Murray formation along the way. The second sol includes a number of ChemCam calibration activities, and a Navcam movie to monitor the atmosphere above Mount Sharp. We’ll also acquire a large Mastcam mosaic to study the stratigraphy exposed on the east side of the Naukluft Plateau.
I’ve been working MER operations this week, so it’s been fun to check in and see what’s happening on the other side of the planet!
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post Mar 2 2016, 08:45 AM
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Sol 1269 Post drive L-NavCam 5-frame 'quick and dirty' mosaic in MS ICE.
Still a few frames needed to complete the 360, but I do believe someone could make this into a great pano
(marginally reduced in size to get it under the image limit)
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post Mar 2 2016, 05:39 PM
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Here is a panorama for Sol 1269/Navcam left...
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post Mar 2 2016, 11:14 PM
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Great work Sean smile.gif Here's my attempt at the 1269 pano, MS ICE was in a slightly better mood today smile.gif

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post Mar 3 2016, 03:30 AM
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Thanks Paul.

Here is a postcard for Sol 1269 from Navcam right...

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I took the usual liberties, exposure blending, extended sky and additions from Sol 1267 for the missing pieces.
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post Mar 3 2016, 04:44 AM
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Here is an extended sky version of the edge of Naukluft plateau by Mastcam right on Sol 1267...

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QUOTE (Sean @ Mar 3 2016, 12:44 PM) *
Here is an extended sky version of the edge of Naukluft plateau by Mastcam right on Sol 1267.

If I was a gambler, I might wager that it will be a while before they take the rover up onto the plateau, looks like a few nice spots that may be calling for a closer look smile.gif

Nice work with the sky Sean, these extensions really help to frame the image smile.gif
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post Mar 3 2016, 10:32 AM
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Lots of gypsum veins. Maybe a good place for space entrepreneurs to set up a wallboard or cement factory biggrin.gif


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post Mar 3 2016, 01:09 PM
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Sol 1269 Lmastcam:
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post Mar 3 2016, 08:12 PM
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Here's the full Naukluft Plateau pan:


Naukluft Plateau - Sol 1267 by Justin Cowart, on Flickr

Full (88mb) mosaic can be found here.

The two things that immediately stood out to me were the extensive network of veins at the center of the pan, and a wedge of blue-green rubble between visible horizons of the Murray and Stimson units.

The first one looks similar to the network of veins observed around the Garden City area last year, which suggests that the Murray formation was fractured under high pore fluid pressures. The wedge kind of reminds me of paleosol (ancient soil) that develops and is sometimes preserved on top of erosional contacts.

It's a pretty neat outcrop area!
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post Mar 4 2016, 07:05 PM
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I'm curious about the lighting in this pic:

Joe's site indicates it was taken at around 22:40 local time. Could they have been using the MAHLI LED's? There's no mention of this in the usgs update.
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post Mar 4 2016, 07:47 PM
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Yeah, I was looking at those and came to the same conclusions. All the bright noisy pixels also indicate a long, nighttime exposure. The dust cover is on, which is why it looks orange. They are now keeping the dust cover on for weekend plans, because if there were to be an arm anomaly at the start of a weekend plan that left the dust cover open, they'd have to scramble engineers to come in on the weekend to close it. Accepting using the dust cover over the weekend is one of the things they did to reduce the cost of operations in the extended mission.


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post Mar 4 2016, 11:23 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Mar 4 2016, 11:05 AM) *
Could they have been using the MAHLI LED's?

You don't have to guess, it says right on the page if the LEDs are used. E.g., http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?r...DXXX&s=1272

"When Curiosity acquired this image, the group 1 white light LEDs were on, the group 2 white light LEDs were on, and the ultraviolet (UV) LEDS were off."

The same page gives the motor count from which you can determine the cover state.


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