Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 1A: Darwin, Sol392 [Sep13,'13] to Sol401 [Sep22,'13] (Waypoint 1) Options

[Greenish]

For those like me who need as much context as possible, here's a full scale (.25 m/px) crop of the only HiRise image I could find that covered the region of Darwin in color (http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_029957_1755). The colors are IRB and stretched, north up. Sun angle is actually pretty low, 37 deg above the horizon from the SW (local time 15:27).

Darwin is bright area just left of center.


(mods, please move to map thread if more appropriate, thanks.)

[algorithm]

Sol 395 MC Pano from the six full frames received so far (18:00 UTC), auto stitched in Photoshop, no adjustments to colour, saturation, levels etc. Reduced in size to fit upload limits.

Stunning detail; all that 'rubble' reminds me of a film scene after an explosion of some kind.

Those hills/dunes still look a long way of though ....sigh.

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[Greenish]

Here's another long-range RMI image, from Sol 396 looking to the ESE. This is a focus merge of 6 images, flatfielded and contrast enhanced. I am pretty sure it's it's aimed at the location circled in the NAVCAM image below, so the upper half of the image may show the flank of a "mesa" near the dunes (edit: seen also from a slightly different angle in the Sol 389 mastcam image also attached)

[Greenish]

Looks like they also did multispectral MR100 imaging of the same spot on sol 387 (far right side of this image and subsequent 4 IR images). Wonder if they are using the passive spectroscopy capabilities of ChemCam and taking the above images to document it.

[Phil Stooke]

Amazing picture! I think it's here, marked on a pan from sol 364 so not seeing the same foreground features. (so this is the left side, not the far right side, of the pic Greenish just linked to)

Phil

[djellison]

Sol 394 MAHLI blink image. Photoshop adjusted, cropped, and downsized to fit upload limits.

The very same, as an anaglyph

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[Phil Stooke]

I have a bit of a placename fetish, so I'm always on the lookout for new names at the Curiosity site. The most inefficient way possible to distribute such information has got to be:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/explore/curiosity/

... but when you get the hang of it you can get to the most recent 'stories' (they really should default to the most recent, not the first) and sometimes they contain names. Today it's Bardin Bluffs, the little rock ledge forming the north edge of Darwin.

Phil

[vikingmars]

Here's another long-range RMI image, from Sol 396

Thanks a lot for your incredible and so "sharp" picture ! When you look closely to its upper portion, you see like "veined" rocks !

[Phil Stooke]

Quick and dirty pan in circular form showing our current location.

Phil

[atomoid]

expectedly fragile plate in center of upper right quadrant sol 395 Rm100 appears to be supporting an inordinately large rock, need a stereo view to be sure.

[mhoward]

expectedly fragile plate in center of upper right quadrant sol 395 Rm100 appears to be supporting an inordinately large rock, need a stereo view to be sure.

Navcam-Mastcam stereo (freeviewing) doesn't help much in this case, but it sure looks like that, doesn't it.

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[EdTruthan]

Sol 396 - Navcam 360's...

2-D (full frame - NRB):


Anaglyph: (bottom cropped):


Really loving the nice clear skies of late.

[atomoid]

Navcam-Mastcam stereo (freeviewing) doesn't help much in this case, but it sure looks like that, doesn't it.

was able to grab a bit of parallax from the adjoining mastcam segment though with the overlap so tiny the interpretation is up for grabs.
just as interesting is the diamondesque shadow in the spheroid rock at right, which appears darker than any other shadows in the scene.. compression artifact?
theres more dark shadows including in another sphericalish rock near far left under the amazing 'coral shelf' complexin the original image

[blake]

Sol 398 MAHLI blink image. Cropped/downsized to the upload limit and adjusted brightness so the two images would match. Interesting "mushroom cap" shape in the foreground.

[blake]

One more Sol 398 blink. Cropped and adjusted brightness to match images.