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Victoria Crater Panoramas, True Color of Victoria's Capes and Bays
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post Oct 3 2007, 10:44 PM
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Victoria Crater Panoramas

Here is a collection of calibrated color panoramas taken by Opportunity since arriving at Victoria Crater through the most recent PDS release, starting with Duck Bay and ending with the east face of Cabo Anonimo. The top of the page is a little javascript+imagemap that shows the rover location (thanks to Tesheiner's amazing route maps!) and viewing-cones of each pano (mousing over the rover location will bring up the cone and a preview image).

I'll keep this updated as new PDS releases are made available.
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post Oct 3 2007, 11:03 PM
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WOW!! Those are amazing! Great job mosaicking those together!


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post Oct 4 2007, 12:10 AM
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excellent - thank you!
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post Oct 4 2007, 12:32 AM
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Marvellous. Great idea!


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post Oct 4 2007, 12:45 AM
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These are just fantastic. I love the roll-over tool.

One issue, on the first two rollovers, Duck Bay and Cape Verde, the FOV shading is pointing backwards.

EDIT: Never mind I was inverting the shading in my mind.


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post Oct 4 2007, 12:51 AM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 4 2007, 02:45 AM) *
One issue, on the first two rollevers, Duck Bay and Cape Verde, the FOV shading is pointing backwards.


That's because they are very wide panoramas wink.gif


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post Oct 4 2007, 12:55 AM
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Very nice useful tool, and of course the panoramas are fantastic.
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post Oct 4 2007, 02:14 AM
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It's a way cool reference tool, and the panoramas are drop-dead gorgeous, not to mention, flawless. smile.gif


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post Oct 4 2007, 02:46 AM
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ohmy.gif BEYOND "wow", sir; truly incredible work!!! Invaluable for those (i.e., me) that are reference-point challenged.

Thanks, Slinted! This work is just nonpariel (hope to God I spelled that correctly) smile.gif


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post Nov 10 2007, 04:08 PM
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Victoria Crater Viewer

Here's a belated thanks for the kind words and...an update!

I've added the pans/mosaics through sol 1170 from the latest PDS release, bringing the total count up to 18 images.

On top of the usual warnings about 'true color', I'll add that the sky is partially if not completely blown out to white in most of the later images. I was more concerned with getting the most out of the ground detail. Also, the sol 1104 pan was taken in L456, not the usual L257, so its colors don't closely match the rest.
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post Nov 11 2007, 09:38 AM
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Like what nprev said above.
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post Nov 11 2007, 07:02 PM
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Did the recent dust storms change the structure of the crater-floor dunes at all? Or are they just the same?
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post Jan 24 2011, 08:24 AM
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One of the most spectacular views ever seen from Opportunity during its mission was at the "Valley without Peril" point from Sols 1130 to 1132. When I saw the NavCam images, I knew there was really something there to work on... Because the rover Drivers focused more on the foreground than on the background features, the panorama could be made only by stitching manually some images taken from those 3-sol interval... Well, you can imagine why there was a concern here for the rover Drivers : Opportunity is so close to the edge that a bad command could have sent it tumbling down the slope... There was a lot of imaging work to do because of parallax issues and I left this work for later. Last week, I decided to process the images. Here is the result. Indeed a spectacular view. Enjoy ! smile.gif
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post Jan 24 2011, 03:30 PM
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Very spectacular! Maybe we should rename it 'Valley with Peril'. Excellent work.

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post Jan 24 2011, 09:11 PM
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QUOTE (vikingmars @ Jan 24 2011, 09:24 AM) *
One of the most spectacular views ever seen from Opportunity during its mission was at the "Valley without Peril" ...


What a phantastic view: Oppy at the edge of steep martian cliffs above bizarre waves of a lake of sand ...

Another one for the MER panorama Hall of Fame, thank you smile.gif
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