The Top of Vera Rubin Ridge Part 2, Site 67-73, sol 1944-2297, 24 Jan 2018-22 Jan 2019 Options

[Sean]

I love the different nuances evident in these treatments. Looking at the specular hilite in the wheels it feels like the sun should be behind the viewer, although the view in this case is over 180°, which is the reason I left the sun out of my comp. Still, I like all of the recent efforts for different reasons, so I consider this a very successful selfie!

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L view on Sol 2084.

Jan van Driel

[Ant103]

My version of Sol 2084 Navcam panoramic :



And the Mastcam34 view. It's very red, and very dark. And shadeless. I think we can learn a lot about dust storm on Mars with Curiosity.



EDIT

Sol 2082 updated and finalized. Some sky should come later…

[charborob]

Comparison between sol 2054 and sol 2084. Images taken at about the same time of day. Notice that there are no shadows on sol 2084 and the color is much redder.

[neo56]

My take on the two MastCam 34mm mosaics taken on sol 2084. What a particular lighting!

[jvandriel]

Here is the complete MAHLI selfie taken on Sol 2082.

Jan van Driel

[Kevin Gill]

Stitched together the full 360˚ view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czh8J-na444

[Ant103]

With some sky. I had to reproduced the fact that the sky is darker to the horizon, the opposite of a clear sky, which is brighter to the horizon (as Olivier de Goursac noticed it in his book A La Conquête de Mars where he compare the sky gradient before and during a dust storm from Viking imagery).

[Sean]

Dust Storm selfie 360 ( 282 megapixel )


repaired lots of dust on the lens & extended sky

[mcaplinger]

repaired lots of dust on the lens

By "dust on the lens" do you mean the crud that's been on the surface of the MAHLI sensor since we assembled it, or something else?

I don't know of any evidence that suggests there is any dust on the MAHLI lens, but if you have any I'd like to know about it.

[Sean]

This stuff;




I made the crudmap from MAHLI images of Mars sky and assumed it was dust on a lens. My bad.

[PaulH51]

The sol 2087 drive also terminated earlier than planned. MP reported 0.4m, but the image of the right-side middle and rear wheels show no progress. Both wheels revolved but just disturbed another loose block, this time with the middle wheels.

2086

2087

[Ant103]

Back in 2007 (11 year ago, Jesus… time is fleeing fast ) I did this kind of strip to follow atmospheric opacity at Gusev, with Spirit rover imagery :

We can see the 2007 global dust storm effect at the end.


Now, I'm doing the same with Mastcam imagery, using the same presentation. But this 2018 global dust storm is much more severe (bellow we could see Grissom Hill perfectly, which is not the case with Gale's rim).

[neo56]

A gif showing the evolution of the dust storm on Gale crater from sol 2079 to sol 2085 and a photo montage "à la Damia"

[jccwrt]

Here's my take on it, with images from Sol 1997 (clear air), and starting at 2054 to show the gradual thickening of dust associated with the start of dust-lifting season.