MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 Options

[belleraphon1]

Resume Working with First Scooped Sample

"Investigation of a small, bright object thought to have come from the rover may resume between the first and second scoop. Over the past two sols, with rover arm activities on hold, the team has assessed the object as likely to be some type of plastic wrapper material, such as a tube used around a wire, possibly having fallen onto the rover from the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's descent stage during the landing in August."

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-316

[EdTruthan]

Here's the Sol 59 (partial) MC100 mosaic whith some white balancing. This is a really enthralling rock field. Not only that the great number of slabs exposed appear to be composed of very thin layers, but that they're apparently so well cemented they tend to resist collapse. And their apparently tilted (but formation consistent) angle of exposure is interesting to ponder.



AND... there's also a sister MC100 mosaic taken on Sol 60 (not down yet) with a few meter basline differential that'll be excellent for stereo viewing of this field when the full frames are available. Here's a quick test draft utilizing a thumbnail mosaic for the left eye...



...being a dedicated MC100 pair this will be razor sharp when the Sol 60 full frames are down.

EDIT: The above anaglyph is now available in Full Resolution two posts down or click here.

[fredk]

Sol 60 M100's coming down now. Here are Phil's sea lions, in sol59/60 long baseline M100 stereo:


Edit: here's the side-by-side version:


The one in front (the "petrified log") looks more like a sea lion that somebody sat on!

[EdTruthan]

Ask and ye shall receive! Here's the Full Resolution Anaglyph. Sols 59 & 60 MC100 pairing...



Oh Wow...

Edit: Just went in and cloned out those pesky MC100 dirt spots that float in mid-air and realigned the separation of the sides just a hair. A pairing like this one, that has a pretty wide baseline (compared to the target's distance from MSL), makes the foreground and distant objects vary wildly in the separation of colors. I think this one strikes a decent balance that makes all depth fields accessible without too much eye adjustment though.

Edit 2: A slightly more white balanced version of the anaglyph with reduced color separation in the area specific to the slabs to support very close zooming on them has been posted here.

[ronald]

Nice ones Ed and Fred! The side-by-side image is really challenging to focus.

Did those rocks below do have names allready?



Sol 59 - Mastcam 100

[jmknapp]

Anaglyph of the one on the right:

[ngunn]

Ed and Fred!
Did those rocks below do have names allready?

They do now.

[Stu]

I'm looking at this and thinking "VERY recent fall, of little meteorites..." ?

[kenny]

Fascinating....or one friable one which simply fell apart after a fairly gentle landing....

[xflare]

I think those are chemcam laser shots.

[Stu]

I think those are chemcam laser shots.

Hmmm. Still think they're meteorites. Looks like solid objects in there...

[fredk]

Definitely laser pits:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...CCAM01050M_.JPG
Meteorites wouldn't fall in a raster pattern!

[Astro0]

ADMINmode: A bunch of posts related to observations discussed in the telecon for the period of the 'Drive to Glenelg' topic moved there.

[Astro0]

Sol 59 Mastcam (right) image of the wheel tread pattern. Curiosity certainly makes an impression.



Well worth a look at full size image available on my blog - or download here 11.7mb

[dombili]

Animated GIF of the turret from SOL 65 (Navcam L - Navcam R)