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Aug 6 2014, 12:25 PM
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#496
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Bienvenido / Welcome to UMSF Fernando.
I did a few attempts with a MSL route map in KML format for Google Earth at the very beginning of this mission but finally gave up because it would take too much effort to keep it up to date. And now I see that you have done it for the whole mission, 700+ sols for the time being, including also a lot of complementary information besides the path itself. Wow. Thanks a lot, and keep the updates coming please! |
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Aug 6 2014, 12:55 PM
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#497
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
Seeing the 3D perspective is nice. It's also fun to stay in Google Earth and imagine that Curiosity is exploring the jungles of Papua New Guinea.
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Aug 6 2014, 09:43 PM
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#498
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
Thanks so much for this, Fernando! what sticks out immediately is it really makes apparent the extent of elevation changes during the mission.
...so Curiosity suffers trench foot in the Papua New Guinea jungle while Oppy cruises the ocean floor just west off the Gulf of Guinea half a world away! |
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Aug 7 2014, 12:32 AM
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#499
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Member Group: Members Posts: 871 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
Thanks for the welcome and encouraging words. In order not to scare too much the Papua I will not be posting updates everyday, especially when there is no drive or, like today, the drive is short. Anyway I'll wait for "Where is Curiosity" to validate the drives.
Fernando |
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Aug 7 2014, 04:39 AM
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#500
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This area is complicated enough that it needs a special map. White squares are contact science sites.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 8 2014, 06:03 PM
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#501
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Member Group: Members Posts: 871 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
Being a bit vexed by not having the revised landing ellipse in the KMZ file, I spent several hours looking for information on it. I did a thorough search of all the topics in the MSL forum and looked at a lot of web resources. The meager result is "an ellipse sized approximately 12x4 miles" and several images . Next, I experimented to draw an ellipse in GE, using the size values as a start and the images to guess the center's location. After a lot of attempts, here are the parameters that seem to provide a reasonable fit:
If someone is kind enough to send me better parameters (thank you!) I'll gladly use them. Here is a comparison of the generated ellipse to the one shown at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/mult...ml#.U-UK2mO9b0w And a "validation" at finer detail, using the path on sols 671-677, when MSL crossed the ellipse, as shown in http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/Curios...ol0677-full.jpg I'll add the ellipse (or a better one) in a future post. Fernando |
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Aug 9 2014, 06:00 AM
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#502
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 30-January 14 Member No.: 7116 |
Hello, this is my first post on UMSF. I discovered UMSF about a year ago and I really like this community. (I'm from Thailand so my English may be bad.)
To Fernando, I really like your map. It provides a lot better view of Curiosity's path. As for the landing ellipse: I don't know about the landing ellipse, but I have added the safe transit route and the notional future traverse path to your kmz file to provide information of the planned future path. (the planned routes are taken from here and here)\ Krit
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Aug 9 2014, 07:18 AM
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#503
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
ADMIN NOTE: Thank you Fernando and Krit for your new contributions to the map. Over the years we have tried to maintain the various Map Threads for the rovers generally clean of additional conversation. Your contributions are valuable and are appreciated however. If you are happy to maintain your .kmz files, feel free to add them here or make them available from a central source of some kind and we can add them to the FAQ sections for the mission.
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Aug 10 2014, 10:10 PM
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#504
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 11 2014, 09:34 PM
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#505
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Member Group: Members Posts: 871 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
Update to Sol 714. Also added the revised landing ellipse (changed the parameters to improve precision).
MSL_Curiosity_Route_Map_Sol_0714_2014AUG10.kmz ( 16.74K ) Number of downloads: 639 Fernando |
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Aug 13 2014, 03:46 PM
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#506
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 19 2014, 01:39 AM
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#507
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Member Group: Members Posts: 871 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
Update to Sol 719 (2014 August 15).
Fernando MSL_Curiosity_Route_Map_Sol_0719_2014AUG15.kmz ( 16.73K ) Number of downloads: 516 |
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Aug 21 2014, 04:48 AM
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#508
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Time for an extreme close-up of activities at Bonanza King. The image is oriented north-up, not as viewed from the rover, which is northeast of the rock. Only the first ChemCam activities are indicated, more were done on later sols. The pre-load tests (the actions which raised the rover slightly in animations) are indicated with a cross symbol where the two drill posts pressed on the surface, linked by a line.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 23 2014, 04:26 AM
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#509
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Concluding our activities at Bonanza King. EDIT - date in text box is wrong - it should be sol 721. EDIT 2: map replaced with corrected version
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 25 2014, 03:48 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
A very quick update to sol 729 - I'm back in my office but don't have all me stuff with me yet, so this is just drawn over the previous route map. (EDIT - replaced with improved version)
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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