10 Years - Remembering Spirit, The start of the celebrations |
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10 Years - Remembering Spirit, The start of the celebrations |
 Jan 4 2014, 05:32 AM
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10 years. 10 YEARS. TEN YEARS!!!!
A decade of exploration to celebrate with the Mars Exploration Rovers. Ten years ago an incredible little adventurer with indomitable 'spirit' landed in Gusev Crater.
After an incredible journey across rugged plains, climbing mountains and discovering evidence of volcanic activity and sulphate soils, we lost our little girl just a few years ago. But her sister drives on, continuing the adventure. Thank you Spirit. We will always remember you. It's been an amazing 10 years. A wonderful 10 years. Thank you as always to those who cared for her and to those who continue to push forward across the dusty face of Mars.  |
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Jan 4 2014, 05:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Thought that some may enjoy a themed desktop to commemorate the milestone.
There's also the official MER10 website to look through. http://mars.nasa.gov/mer10/ More to come as the month progresses. Stu and I have something special in the works 
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Jan 4 2014, 06:09 AM
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Jan 4 2014, 10:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Remembering Spirit with one of mars stu's wonderful pieces of prose
http://astropoetry.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/journeys-end/
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Jan 5 2014, 04:21 AM
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Here's the spaceflightnow.com feed, for anyone else feeling nostalgic (read bottom to top):
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status3.html |
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Jan 6 2014, 02:32 PM
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In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images, every Pancam color image from Landing day to the last color image. Opportunity's is on the way. There is plenty of room for improvement. Enjoy!
http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/index.php/Spirit |
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Jan 6 2014, 02:47 PM
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QUOTE (James Sorenson @ Jan 6 2014, 03:32 PM)  In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images. Thanks a lot for this. After all these years it is still amazing to find new views, like this from sol 3 (http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/var/albums/Spirit/sol0003/2p126632659rad0200p2899l456C1.jpg?m=1387924674). I hadn't seen this before. It is interesting how dusty the later images are. Comparing sol 12 with sol 2118: http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/va...pg?m=1387926667 http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/va...pg?m=1389013025 -------------------- Need more input ...
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Jan 7 2014, 01:48 AM
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QUOTE (James Sorenson @ Jan 6 2014, 10:32 PM) In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images, every Pancam color image from Landing day to the last color image. Opportunity's is on the way. There is plenty of room for improvement. Enjoy! http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/index.php/Spirit Great resource James Looking forward to spending time rekindling old memories, as well as discovering those colour images I missed along the way.... Also looking forward to the future additions of Opportunity.... Thanks
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Jan 8 2014, 12:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2086 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
10th Anniversary event at the Smithsonian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMl7Q0KHcQ4 Around 39 minutes in, lots of details about public outreach and indirect mentions of UMSF. |
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Jan 14 2014, 08:36 PM
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My tribute to the anniversary
Sol 2001. West Valley, the unreachable land, at dawn. Made with PDS datas. 
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Jan 15 2014, 12:51 AM
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Beautiful Damia.
That image suddenly generated some dust in the room and my eyes are mysteriously watering. |
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Jan 15 2014, 06:10 AM
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Beautiful, haunting... a place now so familiar to us...
I've dreamt of walking that bit... Thanks for the moment Damia! -------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Jan 15 2014, 12:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Thank you for these very touching comments
I had to do the colorized version 
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Jan 15 2014, 12:53 PM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Jan 15 2014, 08:42 PM) I had to do the colorized version 'Sol 2001 A Mars Odyssey'... Merci Damia
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Jan 15 2014, 01:11 PM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Jan 15 2014, 01:42 PM) Thank you for these very touching comments I had to do the colorized version WOW ! Thanks a lot Damia : how nice !  PS : I made a try several years ago using the "old" technique by extracting the real colors inside the images taken at noon (the ones used to build the 'Calypso' Panorama), creating special pictures bearing only the chrominance and then paste those on the panchromatic pics taken at sols 2001 -sunrise- and sol 2002 -sunset which gave the luminosity and contrast. The resulting images show the real colors of the Martian surface taken at different times of the day. See link : http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=169422 |
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Jan 15 2014, 05:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
...and Don Davis fulfilled my dreams !
Here is the FANTASTIC Spirit panorama he colorized, based on Damia's mosaic and just put online by Emily ! Congratulations to both of you !
Link : http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/i...4pano3FLAT3.jpg |
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Feb 8 2014, 03:16 PM
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Remembering Sol 2169.
February 8, 2010. Spirit turns her wheels for the last time.
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Feb 17 2014, 08:43 AM
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QUOTE (vikingmars @ Jan 15 2014, 06:25 PM) ...and Don Davis fulfilled my dreams ! Here is the FANTASTIC Spirit panorama he colorized, based on Damia's mosaic and just put online by Emily ! Congratulations to both of you ! superb artwork! Let me share this one from 'the old days' as I 'walk' through my old awalkonmars.com archive to prepare for a new website. Congrats to the MER team, thankyou Spirit!
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Feb 11 2016, 12:23 AM
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12 years ago today (Feb 10, 2004) Spirit took this picture:
Things sure were cleaner back then. It seems like yesterday! -------------------- CLA CLL
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Jun 22 2016, 05:36 AM
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A model of Spirit's final stop, compiled with HiRISE DTM & multiple texture passes.
Check it out here in Sketchfab
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Jun 23 2016, 02:03 PM
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QUOTE (Sean @ Jun 22 2016, 07:36 AM) A model of Spirit's final stop, compiled with HiRISE DTM & multiple texture passes. Check it out here in Sketchfab Sean, that is excellent. I especially like that the terrain seems mounted on a block rather than just a 2D surface. Makes me regret once again all the interesting places Spirit never got to rove. You should maybe try one with exaggerated terrain as well. Any other locations in mind? Victoria? Marathon Valley? PS Have you taken a look at the HiRise superresolution products of the Homeplate feature? You could possibly integrate these with your current texture, which I already find very nice. |
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Jun 23 2016, 05:37 PM
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Thankee!
Marathon Valley was my first stab at this HiRISE malarkey, check it out at the Sketchfab link in my sig. I will investigate this super resolution HiRISE Home Plate you speak of... I may already have seen it given I reviewed all the HiRISE data I could find. Its important to use the correct satellite image that fits the DTM otherwise there is a lot of warping and hardly anything matches. -------------------- |
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Jun 23 2016, 05:53 PM
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QUOTE (Sean @ Jun 23 2016, 07:37 PM) I will investigate this super resolution HiRISE Home Plate you speak of... I may already have seen it given I reviewed all the HiRISE data I could find. Its important to use the correct satellite image that fits the DTM otherwise there is a lot of warping and hardly anything matches. Sean I refer to this paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic...032063315003591 |
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Jun 23 2016, 06:58 PM
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Many thanks for that link Sittingduck... I did read an article a while back about the process and was suitably wowed... now after reading the paper I'm even more impressed. I'm wondering if there is a portal through which I can access their output? Once they get GPU's involved they will be flying through the data!
I hadn't considered exaggerating the terrain, it would be trivial to do however, so I will include that in the next batch. There are a number of considerations when building these assets for Sketchfab...mesh fidelity, polycount, texture size etc so I will probably revisit something like Home Plate for a more localized attempt when I have refined the process somewhat. Thanks for your interest and suggestions. -------------------- |
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Jun 23 2016, 07:34 PM
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Jan 9 2017, 08:06 AM
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A mosaic of Spirit's final resting place:
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Maksim Kakitsev Images are RGB stacks using IR/green/violet and red/green/blue filtered images, so the colours are all over the place. -------------------- Curiosity rover panoramas: http://www.facebook.com/CuriosityRoverPanoramas
My Photosynth panoramas: http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx...;content=Synths |
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Feb 27 2017, 11:49 AM
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Click thru for video...
 Blended 3 layers of 2 HRSC & 1 HiRISE datasets. -------------------- |
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Feb 27 2017, 04:53 PM
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Inspirational!
Congratulations Sean. |
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Feb 27 2017, 07:10 PM
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Hmm... isn't HP starboard side of the Rover? Spirit: gone but not forgotten.
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Feb 27 2017, 08:06 PM
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Is the position correct? I have her facing back toward Husband Hill.
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Feb 27 2017, 08:20 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
In Post # 20 I see her with the IDD and PMA facing toward the viewer and HP to the left (Port) side of the vehicle. The last know vehicle e Yaw is 310. Position seems to be correct, but the vehicle as I see it in that picture seems to be 180/deg from what telemetry tells me. I hope I'm not confused.
Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Feb 27 2017, 08:25 PM
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Looks like a fly-in from the North rather than from the South. The large crater Thira being opposite of what a fly-in from the south gave that away for me.
Very nice by the way Sean
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Feb 27 2017, 08:58 PM
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So Nice Sean!
And if Spirit is no longer around, Paolo is. Hi Paolo.
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Feb 27 2017, 09:56 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Looking again, the animation seems to have the rover at the correct heading, but to my eye the screenshot on Post #20 it looks as it the rover is pointed South-ish?
Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Feb 27 2017, 11:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 10-November 15 Member No.: 7837 |
Ah, the rover position in post 20 is incorrect. I made this when I was still a rover baby and did insufficient research.
The animation is a proof of concept for the workflow...the approach from the north was used to disguise a big gap in south approach coverage. -------------------- |
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Feb 27 2017, 11:55 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Got it. I was beginning to doubt my eyes! Thanks for the flyover. Can you pick her up, dust her off and hit ctrl-alt-delete? ;-)
Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Mar 7 2017, 09:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 14-December 12 Member No.: 6784 |
I made another short video of a navcam 3D model colorized with pancam images. This time of Spirit's "Seminole" panorama location.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRApZ7KO1W0 Preview image attached.
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Jan 4 2020, 08:39 AM
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Happy Landing Anniversary Spirit !!!
Your Sol 001 Images https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_f001.html https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_r001.html https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_n001.html https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_p001.html |
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Jun 4 2021, 07:07 PM
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He is our old friend.
https://twitter.com/haygenwarren/status/140...1422405633?s=21 Picture taken April 2021 by HiRISE
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Jun 7 2021, 06:00 AM
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Fascinating... doesn't it look dusty?
Not the slightest glint of shiny metal. |
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Jan 3 2024, 08:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Happy 20th landing anniversary dear Spirit : https://plus.nasa.gov/video/jpl-and-the-spa...inkId=259008353
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Jan 5 2024, 12:43 AM
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here is an adaptive upscaling of Spirit from the April 2021 HiRise:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...mp;#entry254340 -------------------- CLA CLL
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Jan 6 2024, 02:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
Happy 20th landing anniversary to the rover and her team. May there be boots to pay their respects on site asap.
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May 9 2024, 04:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Spirit and Opportunity raw images and day-to-day reports have disappeared too!
 Here is the link to the raw images now: https://science.nasa.gov/mars/resources/?ty...ntent_list=true
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