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Posted by: SigurRosFan Jan 29 2007, 04:38 PM

Happy Birthday Oppy!

Here's my new quick and dirty SFX image ...

Opportunity on Cape Desire (683,5 KB):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/373422459_b528b03994_o.jpg

Posted by: Ant103 Jan 29 2007, 04:57 PM

Hum... The effect will be better with hard shadows under the rover (I sayed "hard" in contrary to jpl pictures sfx where the shadows are too smooth to believe that there was external images...).
So, it's always good .

Posted by: MarsIsImportant Jan 29 2007, 11:06 PM

It looks to me that Oppy might be about to check out that crack and stain area that we spotted from on the other side of the bay. It appears very close.

Posted by: Astro0 Jan 30 2007, 01:41 AM

Here you go Ant and Sig...
A quick shadow and some tracks for Oppy.
Astro0

File:130k

Posted by: SigurRosFan Jan 30 2007, 10:48 AM

Nice to see you and your new rover work. As always, just great!

Posted by: Astro0 Feb 5 2007, 09:52 PM

Movie: Oppy on a Sunday Drive.
http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Temp/Oppy_drive.wmvFile: 1.68mb .WMV

Enjoy
Astro0

Posted by: hortonheardawho Feb 6 2007, 01:00 AM

Not sure where to post this Oppy sol 1065 sunset...

Lots of color compression artifacts plus a few missing data fixups.

Montage of the images here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/381083338/

Posted by: Tesheiner Feb 6 2007, 08:48 AM

Incredible!

Posted by: ngunn Feb 6 2007, 01:35 PM

Thanks for those excellent movies. My astronomy class will be seeing both of them this evening.

Posted by: fredk Feb 6 2007, 06:05 PM

Thanks Horton for those stunning sunset images! That gif colour banding got me all nostalgic for my first Martian sunset:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/mars/images/Mars_sunnyday.jpg

Posted by: Astro0 Feb 7 2007, 09:38 PM

Please enjoy this enhanced movie based on the fantastic Sunset sequence generated by hortonheardawho, and Rover Opportunity of course!
http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Temp/oppy_sunset.wmvFile:614k .wmv

Enjoy
Astro0

Posted by: Oersted Feb 8 2007, 10:41 AM

Great movie Astro! - That enhanced movie is one of the most evocative sights to come out of the Mars Rovers mission.

Posted by: mars loon Feb 8 2007, 02:25 PM

Guys,

these movies are stunning and evocative. great work all around. these will be great additions to my astronomy talks too (with full credit):
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=1972&view=findpost&p=81852

The color drive movie from Victoria must be a first !

My Opinion: Both would be fine contributions to IMAX Roving Mars: The Sequel

thank you for sharing and posting

ken