5000 Sols On Mars, Opportunity Rolls Into History |
5000 Sols On Mars, Opportunity Rolls Into History |
Feb 18 2018, 04:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Amazing story Doug, for an amazing selfie!
Obviously Curiosity is better with the raw number of pixels (and doing these arm manouevres more often)... but there is still something very poignant about Oppy doing this, just because it was so unusual/difficult to pull off, and is the first of its kind. |
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Feb 18 2018, 06:43 AM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
... Who knows....maybe we'll get to try it again on Sol 6000 What do you mean MAYBE? 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 18 2018, 07:50 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Well - I figure we'll do it so often now that by Sol 6000 we might not want another one
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Feb 18 2018, 08:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Delurking to say #$#&(@#($(!@#^$^@#(*(@# [swear jar]
Thank you, thank you, thank you - what a wonderful way to celebrate a 5k. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 18 2018, 10:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 3-January 10 Member No.: 5156 |
Also from me, Happy Sol 5000 for Opportunity. And thanks to the many who made this journey possible. See you at sol 10000 in the year 2032 at the Iazu crater ...
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Feb 19 2018, 06:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Wow. I'm finding this image affecting in a way that's hard to describe. It's one thing, to know in the abstract what these buggers look like, and know that they're dusty, and know that, amazingly, it's still plugging along all these years later.
But this... it adds fidelity to the sense of being there. That is, the images ticking by on the screen get more and more abstract without some sort of anchor. Which is to say, "you still? really?" |
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Feb 19 2018, 01:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
And a version with added color, Many thanks to Don Davis for doing this. Thank you very much James, Don and Stu for this very nice work of yours Here is my interpretation : I realized that they was a big sun glare due to the imaging constraints, so I did just a small processing to keep the original fuzziness from the original pictures (to keep the ambiance of this historic moment), while pasting them into a mosaic, and then I added some sky dynamics. Here is the scene integrated into its context. Enjoy And CONGRATULATIONS to the MER Team for this incredible feat of roving past 5,000 Sols (and to Doug for the idea of the self-portrait) |
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Feb 21 2018, 11:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
More 'selfie' images planned for 5006? Maybe filling in the missing bits on the left and bottom?
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Feb 21 2018, 05:21 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
IDD not being what it used to be is restricting us some-what - certainly can't pull off the complete 360 of a MAHLI selfie, but we're trying a few extra frames. |
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Feb 21 2018, 10:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 691 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
Well what ever extra frames that come down, I'll add them to my version of the selfie. The colorized version though, that is up to Don if he wants to redo the work that he did or not. If he does, I'll send him off the extended version when I can get it mosaiced.
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Feb 21 2018, 11:54 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
We've also learned some interesting stuff about our planning tools and the MI just by doing this.....so next time, we'll do a better job
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Feb 25 2018, 12:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 691 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
The extended selfie. Enjoy!
Full Resolution https://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/...955530/sizes/o/ Full Resolution https://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/...697997/sizes/o/ |
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Feb 25 2018, 07:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I want to see Opportunity roll up to Olympus Mons.
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Feb 25 2018, 10:30 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I want to see Opportunity roll up to Olympus Mons. I'm not sure what the slopes are like, but the routing to there will be my descendents problem. For the moment I'm setting the following sequence as a more realistic goal: SET_ROVER_PLANNER_IN_CONTROL SET_GOAL_LAT_LONG 2/deg 39' South 5/deg 12' West GO_TO_GOAL 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 25 2018, 10:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Iazu!
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