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Phil Stooke
post Dec 21 2018, 08:27 AM
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I am setting this up to contain maps of the InSight landing site, but at this stage it is hard to know exactly what form they will take. I hope to have a map of the 20 m or so around the lander with a few feature names if any are assigned, and maps of the workspace showing operations step by step. Maps showing the locations of distant features on the horizon might also be added.

To start off, here is a very preliminary map of the workspace and the area under the front of the lander, which will improve as more images are added to cover parts blocked by struts. The lower image shows the SEIS position, as accurately as I can get it now. I put north at the top. The scale and orientation are from a map in a recent paper about the arm and the base is from the JPL press release image, the two being registered to match the workspace outline which is shown in both. Doug's map is rotated slightly compared with this.

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post Jan 3 2019, 12:37 AM
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A few adjustments to my map. I hope to be able to fill most gaps in the base image soon.

The origin of the coordinate system is the base of the arm.

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post Jan 10 2019, 11:29 PM
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Not much new at the moment but I have added labels and adjusted part of the base map. There will be more obvious changes soon.

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post Feb 6 2019, 12:58 AM
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Updating these maps, I have added the names of two rocks, revised other details, and added the wind and thermal shield.

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post Feb 18 2019, 07:27 PM
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Update to the map showing the HP3 deployment - my current best guess for the location. Apart from some tidying up this will be the last workspace map, unless we get some arm activities like creating soil piles to monitor wind erosion, which have been discussed as possibilities. I am hoping for more, because 'this will be the last map' is not a phrase I like to use very often. Later I will be making maps of the surrounding area to add to this thread.

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post Feb 18 2019, 07:58 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 18 2019, 07:27 PM) *
I am hoping for more, because 'this will be the last map' is not a phrase I like to use very often. Later I will be making maps of the surrounding area to add to this thread.

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post Jun 29 2019, 11:40 PM
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OK, more maps! Here are two more in the time series, and there will be more as the work around the mole continues.

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post Feb 13 2020, 12:23 AM
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It's been a while since I added anything here, so I will post this work in progress view of Homestead Hollow as a reprojected panorama. I'm still working on the panorama and there's a lot to do. Lighting is inconsistent and the central gap has to be filled, but you can see what it will look like. If anyone has new panorama work that might contribute I would love to see it.

Next step is to project this onto a HiRISE base image, as I did with Phoenix some years ago.

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post Mar 28 2020, 10:00 PM
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This image shows progress towards a map of the InSight landing site. On the left is part of HiRISE image ESP-036761-1845 (map-projected but not ortho-corrected at this stage). In the middle is the circular panorama reprojected to fit the HiRISE, using about 110 control points. There are still many problems with this, especially because I still don't have a good panorama to work with. I'm waiting for the mission team to release one. This one is a very bad mashup of a horizon pan and a workspace map. At right is a composite of the two with bad bits masked out. Still a long way to go but it shows what will be possible eventually.

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post Oct 13 2020, 06:23 PM
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InSight has been on Mars for one Mars year now, and a new paper gives us details of the landing site including feature names:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...29/2020EA001248

(it's open access)

To celebrate the birthday here are 3 illustrations of the landing site which include the newly published names (other rock names near the lander will be in a future update) as well as more details of horizon feature identifications using additional even more informal names from me.

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post Dec 12 2020, 12:20 AM
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This map has been driving me nuts for months but it's finally done. Homestead Hollow... a composite of a HiRISE image and a reprojected panorama, plus an enormous amount of fiddling. The names of features are from the paper mentioned in the previous post (and a bit of work may be needed to make them compatible - for instance, Campfire Crater is wrong in the previous map).

Phil

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post Dec 12 2020, 03:52 AM
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And this is a corrected version of the map in the post before last. I have been trying to reconcile different illustrations in the source paper, and I think what I have here is the most consistent interpretation.

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post Mar 2 2021, 09:40 PM
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Turns out that map up above was not the last. Here is an update to sol 803 with the two trenches and the final state of the mole area. The base map has been improved but there is still a lot to do to get a really good map of the area near the lander. More news after LPSC.

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post Feb 28 2022, 07:41 PM
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It's been a long time since anything was posted here. These are two more time steps in the workspace map, taking us up to the end of 2021. Since then there has been one scoop of soil from the trench area (dumped on the lander deck) and one further contact on the surface northwest of the SEIS, same location as before. Right now the arm is pointing upwards, camera viewing the sky.

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post Dec 29 2022, 02:24 AM
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This is the end of mission workspace map. I am working on a map with wider coverage as well.

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