Mars Pathfinder Ten Year Anniversary, July 4, 2007., - The little rover that started it all... Options

[mchan]

Hey, watch that "little guy" stuff. He's very sensitive.

MSL: "Targeting ChemCam laser..."

[tedstryk]

I have redone a super-pan section around the north knob. Some of the images were plagued with transmission dropouts, which made processing interesting.

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[OKB001]

Hello,

I hope I'm not going to get any trouble here, but I took the liberty to create 2 wallpapers from the MPF Presidential panorama, for my laptop (1280x800, yes it's indeed a MacBook), and I though other people may want to use them as well, so here is the first one attached to this post:

[OKB001]

... and the second one:



Cheers,

[Guest_Oersted_*]

beautiful!

[Guest_Bobby_*]

This might be a silly question but if Pathfinder had a Rover Like Spirit and Opportunity.
What direction would they have sent it exploring???

I think Twin Peaks would have been an interesting Target

[djellison]

Big Crater, then Twin Peaks, almost certainly. Spirit 2.0

Doug

[Guest_Enceladus75_*]

I always found it frustrating that the North Knob lay just over the edge from Pathfinder's view but sadly Sojounrner didn't last long enough to drive over the edge and image it in its full glory. That's why rovers are so useful - they really appeal to the human urge to explore and see what's just around the next corner.

[tedstryk]

I have done a new Twin Peaks pan. It is displayed at Phoenix resolution, but it looks better at about 50% of that. It is not an accident that the area around the peaks looks sharper. It is up to 50 frames deep in places, while some of the outlying areas benefit from as few as six frames.

[marswalker]

I was up in the cafeteria at JPL watching the new images come over the wire, with the rest of the Friends and Families. That was back in the day when you could just drive up, sign-in, and take a tour of the place. The landing party was by invitation only.

The Mission / Lander was MPF, the rover was Sojourner. The lander was also named Sagan Memorial Station.

When we first landed, images and data were coming through so clearly we upped the baud rate to a previously untested setting. It caused a race condition to be exhibited, precipitating reboots.

It took the team about a week of hard and furious work to pinpoint the race condition exhibited on Mars, craft a fix, and test it.

Pathfinder was a remarkable departure from SOP for NASA - it marked the shift from creating each new space probe's computers and software from scratch, to purchasing commercial off-the-shelf components and software, enabling the scientists and engineers to concentrate on their applications and spacecraft, and enabling software and design re-use.

The MER twins inherited a lot of their design and software architecture from MPF. That makes MPF their Grandfather.

[Juramike]

I have done a new Twin Peaks pan.

Beautiful!

[tedstryk]

Thanks. Here is an alternate version (a bit less blue).

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[tedstryk]

Here is one more alternate version. It is manipulated in an attempt to compensate for the fact that the images in the base data were chosen to create the highest resolution image possible, not for proper filter representation. That makes for an odd effect when combined with color data.

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