MARDI images and videos Options

[Big Joe]

I thought the same thing figured by now we would have a video posted :-)

[mhoward]

Ha! Folks aren't used to the new website yet. (Myself included.)

[Reed]

Unless I'm missing something, we can use the MARDI image timestamps to resolve the question of when the first haz images were taken relative to touchdown:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/ra...I1_DXXX&s=0 looks like about the first MARDI on the ground at 05:18:16

The haz images with the putative impact cloud are at 05:18:38

Seems about right to me.

[mcaplinger]

Are you guys asleep at the wheel? Where's the image magery?

In all fairness, there's only so much you can do with the thumbnails, the real magic will start when all of the full frames are back.

[elakdawalla]

In all fairness, there's only so much you can do with the thumbnails....

That sounds like a challenge to me

You're right, of course. But the little things we can do are interesting, until we get the big ones. Play with how they nest; try out a "real-time" animation; fiddle with colors/contrast; etc. Has anybody overlaid the MARDI frames on a CTX image yet?

[Tom Tamlyn]

In all fairness, there's only so much you can do with the thumbnails, the real magic will start when all of the full frames are back.

For "just thumbnails," some of the MARDI mages are nonetheless jaw-dropping. E.g.:

Wowwzers!! Thanks Emily!

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...0072E1_DXXX.jpg

I'm having trouble processing how much better the full images will be.

TTT (And of course, once we've seen the full images, we'll start to take them for granted ...)

[elakdawalla]

I had the same question. We'll have to see adjacent frames to learn anything else about it, I think.

TTT: That one (and only that one) is full-resolution.

[malgar]

A very simple elaboration

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[RoverDriver]

A very simple elaboration

Malgar, that highlights the opposition effect quite clearly!

Paolo

[Tom Tamlyn]

TTT: That one (and only that one) is full-resolution.

Thanks Emily! Glad to have my prior post corrected, because thinking of that image as a thumbnail was throwing my sense of scale way off.

TTT (Also kicking myself a bit. Curious whether the image was in fact a thumbnail, and mindful of Forum Rules 2.2 & 2.3, I did, prior to posting, do a quick scan of the Sol 0 index page for Raw MARDI images. I concluded that, since I hadn't noticed any image that wasn't labeled "thumbnail," the image in question must be a thumbnail. The checking procedure is now exposed as defective both in design and in execution; I'll try harder next time.)

[Guest_Oersted_*]

Malgar, that highlights the opposition effect quite clearly!

Paolo

So we are sure it is not Heiligenschein from dew on the surface? :-)

[ToSeek]

A very simple elaboration

Think if you drop a line straight down from the heat shield almost to the bottom of the image and then go a little bit to the right, that's where the landing site is.


This is your image cropped to that area and rotated so north is (approximately) up:



That puts the landing site just inside the left-hand edge of the image toward the middle.

Compare the HiRISE image:

In both of them there's a depressed area with a seed/diamond-shaped crater in it to the northeast, and Curiosity is just a little southwest of that.

[Astro0]

Tried matching up the full MARDI frame that was available and the HiRise image of the landing/impact sites with a larger context image of the overall landing/exploration area.




A larger version here 9.4mb

[Doc]

That looks pretty good there Astro.

[walfy]

Tried matching up the full MARDI frame that was available and the HiRise image of the landing/impact sites with a larger context image of the overall landing/exploration area.




A larger version here 9.4mb

This is awesome! Thanks!

And thank you to all the rest for posting these incredible new images!