The Peter Pan, 360 degree colour panorama Options

[ugordan]

That's probably because these are more distant than say the Pathfinder Twin Peaks.

[tedstryk]

That's probably because these are more distant than say the Pathfinder Twin Peaks.

That's quite possible. I really don't know the scale. It will be interesting to see once better quality imaging is down.

[fredk]

I'm not sure about Twin Peaks, but the low hills in tedstryk's post above are about 20 km to the SSW. There's a large crater a similar distance to the SW of the Columbia Hills - this shot shows it:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...M9P2629L6M1.JPG
Of course its visibility varies a lot with dust levels. Here's a more recent winter view with clear air:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...00P2264L7M1.JPG

[jamescanvin]

Another draft. I added in the arm work volume mosaic from the first week, unfortunately they don't quite overlap.

Also available at twice the resolution compared to yesterdays (half of full)



Enjoy.

James

[Astro0]

And James' updated panorama deserves another polar projection.

Astro0

[MichaelT]

Many thanks for the great work!

Michael

[Ant103]

Amazing works James and other. Really appreciate it .
James : how do you do to take the time to do this pictures? You are really productive this time.

[jamescanvin]

Version updated to sol 32, it's already out of date with all the sol 33 images. But at least it's now at full resolution.



James

[Paul Fjeld]

Really nice job! Yah - SOL 33 gives you that steenkeen 2 degrees!

Paul

[punkboi]

Awesome work, James! Can't wait to see what the final panorama will look like!

[Astro0]

James' pan as a polar, and I vote it as a new 'emoticon'! SMILE

Astro0

[fredk]

Or how about as a "don't panic" emoticon? There's something oddly familiar about that polar image... (Or perhaps just something odd about me...)

[3488]

Great imagery James Canvin & Astro0.

Wonder how they'll compare to the official ones that will be released by NASA? My own thoughts are that the first 360 pans should have been the priority for the first few sols, before unstowing the arm & digging. That arm is quite an intrusion.

Can I ask, what software was used & is it expensive?

Thank you.

Andrew Brown.

[BrianL]

The arm adds a certain je ne sais quoi for me. In retrospect, maybe the first Spirit panorama should have had the arm outstretched and pointing toward the Columbia Hills a la Babe Ruth, as if to say, "There. That's where we're going".

Happy Canada Day everyone!

Brian

[jamescanvin]

Great imagery James Canvin & Astro0.

Thanks.

My own thoughts are that the first 360 pans should have been the priority for the first few sols, before unstowing the arm & digging. That arm is quite an intrusion.

Having the arm moving about is not too much of a problem. They have already retaken a few of the images in the near field when the arm was in the way the first time.

Can I ask, what software was used & is it expensive?

I use Hugin to stitch the images (free open source ) and usually the GIMP to post-process (touch up saturation/brightness etc, add credits, save as jpg, etc.) (free open source ) However for really big images like full resolution 360 degree pans the GIMP really struggles and I then use Photoshop which can handle these much better.

All the matching between frames is done using a program I have written myself from scratch which while has not cost me anything in monetary terms has cost me more time than I even want to think about over the years!

James