MSL "Drive, drive, drive" toward Glenelg, The scientists (mostly) get the keys - sols 38-56 |
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MSL "Drive, drive, drive" toward Glenelg, The scientists (mostly) get the keys - sols 38-56 |
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Stunning!
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Sep 26 2012, 12:47 PM
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QUOTE (EdTruthan @ Sep 26 2012, 12:36 PM)  "Humongous Anaglyph III" Sol 45 and Sol 23 MC100 with a 210 meter wide baseline... Yup. Elvis has now left the building... 20016x2267px 6.85MB -IMG- The times of day were different, so the shadows are a bit mis-matched, and with such a wide baseline, getting the correct red-blue separation is tricky because close and far objects require lots of eye adjustments. But I could tweak for weeks. Better to share.... Monster anaglyphs could indeed take weeks to tweak.... just a small preview for now   what glorious views we're getting these past sols ! -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
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Sep 26 2012, 01:48 PM
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The Phobos image reminded me of an early Viking image:
There are some messy JPG artifacts, but a couple of craters are certainly real. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 26 2012, 01:48 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Sep 25 2012, 10:47 PM) ...And I don't recall any crescent view of Phobos from MER, though pancam certainly could resolve it.... Given a couple of shots like that, allowing a few degrees of motion between them, I could even envision a stereoscopic perspective of Phobos -- that would be very cool. |
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Sep 26 2012, 02:37 PM
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It missing just 3 frames to be complete, but WOW.
 Ed : amazing work on these anaglyph ! -------------------- |
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Sep 26 2012, 02:49 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 26 2012, 03:48 PM) There are some messy JPG artifacts, but a couple of craters are certainly real. Phil Thanks a lot Phil for having found this VO pic ! And there is a good "fit" for its global shape on its night side too with the reflected light from Mars (see enhancement herebelow) :
Plus a link to the "Ciel & Espace" website where the image was published this morning (CET) in France : http://www.cieletespace.fr/node/9592 Enjoy 
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Sep 26 2012, 03:14 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Re Ageis....It's a good idea to get the normal, extremely complicated surface s/w working well, before adding on enhancements, bare in mind, if luck holds out MSL will last more than 10 years. Also long drives will still be posible in the hills, those hills are massive, not "molehills" you can drive around or over in a day.
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Sep 26 2012, 03:59 PM
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QUOTE (EdTruthan @ Sep 26 2012, 10:36 AM) "Humongous Anaglyph III" ...and is now in z-axis heaven. That's what we've been waiting for. Thanks for all your work on that.Sol 45 and Sol 23 MC100 with a 210 meter wide baseline... Yup. Elvis has now left the building... About marsshine on Phobos, I'm skeptical considering all the blocky jpeg artifacts in the sky. But the thought is really interesting. Mars would look huge from Phobos, much bigger than the Earth from the Moon. So if the geometry is right, the marsshine could be very bright. It's hard to see earthshine on the Moon unless the sky is quite dark. But it could be much easier to see marsshine on Phobos... (Emily - according to Joe's site, the Phobos image was taken at 17:27 LMST, not near local noon. That's consistent with it's orientation at sunset.) |
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Sep 26 2012, 04:01 PM
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Goodness, those images of Phobos are really something.
Sol 50. Looks like we're actually quite close to the edge of the especially interesting terrain. The view after the next drive should be good.  
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Sep 26 2012, 04:23 PM
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Sol 49 panorama in circular form - to help me with rover location.
Phil
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Sep 26 2012, 04:49 PM
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Sol 49 late afternoon panorama.
 And this gave me the need to do a postcard picture with some more sky .
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Sep 26 2012, 05:50 PM
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MSL Science update on NASA TV Thursday 27th September at 11 am PDT
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Sep 26 2012, 06:33 PM
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Just looking back at the Phobos images from sol 45... I thought it might be useful to combine the two best images to reduce JPG noise... but it looks like there is too much rotation of Phobos (and/or the terminator) for that to work.
PS my daughter informs me that I use too many ...s in my emails to her. I have decided to move them all here instead... enjoy! ... Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 26 2012, 08:16 PM
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Stitched out of 12 Mastcam 34 mm images - Sol 49:
Big version here. Nice texture on the stones and rocks! And a second-but-not-so-impressive one:
Big version here. 
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Sep 26 2012, 08:24 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 26 2012, 06:33 PM) it looks like there is too much rotation of Phobos (and/or the terminator) for that to work. Yeah, I noticed that too. But rotation seems unlikely, since the two frames were taken only 16 seconds apart. Maybe the lower S/N frame is too heavily corrupted by jpeg artifacts?Anyway, we can hope for cleaner images in the press release tomorrow... |
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