Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond Options

[Guest_Oersted_*]

Sol 1987 vs Sol 2348...

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Whoa!

The crater on the rim looks strangely unaffected by the graininess otherwise apparent in the image, did you do some particular enhancement to that feature? Or am I just seeing things...

[Stu]

Don't think so, no... just messed about with carefully changed brightness and contrast and levels to make things easier to see...

[Guest_Oersted_*]

Ok, great. An amazing image. Despite all the measurable progress it hadn't quite dawned on me that we are actually getting nearer the target... - Just like canoeing on a big lake (which I did in Denmark last week), you row and row and row and all you get for your trouble are some almost invisible small changes in the perspective of features on land. Only as you almost make landfall does the perspective suddenly begin to change dramatically. So, thanks for bringing out the "almost invisible small changes"!

[sgendreau]

Sol 1987 vs Sol 2348...

Holy smokes, Stu. You keep making my jaw drop.

Reading this whole thread, I hear "The Little Old Rover from Pasadena" playing over and over in my mind....



(Go, Oppy, go, Oppy, go Oppy go! )

[CosmicRocker]

Hehe. It was difficult to find a good version of that song on line. Here's one that's not too bad, with lyrics

[MoreInput]

Naming the features?

I looked at the stunning pictures of James Cavin today. Now I am wondering if we are seeing currently two horizons? Alan mentioned it at the 2nd September.

A Meridian bedrock - parking lot
B ? Which place are we seeing here?
C Plains behind Endeavour?
D Far crater wall of Endeavour

E Cape Tribulation
F cape Dromedary
G Iazu Ejecta
S Martian sky ...

I hope the naming of the labels is correct.

Currently I see some more horizontal lines. Has anyone any idea what we are seeing? Is the line between A and B real? Is this a near horizon, and the landscape is then going down and will rise again if it is reaching Endeavour? Or are we now already going downhill?

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[djellison]

The transition from A to B is the same we saw before the Victoria annulus. Basically it's where the bedrock+ripples ends, and the true parking lot, like the Victoria Annulus, or the stretch from Eagle to Endurance, begins.

[Bill]

First animation of my life. It's the view of Endeavour north rim from sol 774 to 2356.
Hard time to go through all the pancams from Erebus and to find all images of the north rim.
Feel free to make comments so that i can improve the next animation.


I prefer a bigger version (15Mo) with context and views on the plain or on Victoria, but i do not arrive to put it on an appropriate site (youtube, flickr). Sorry about that. I will try again next day.
OK, done but the quality is not as good as i want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyIZPPvGk0

[James Sorenson]

Very Nice Animation Bill! . One improvement that I would recommend is to use the PDS imagery up until the last PDS release if possible, then switch to the raw JPG's up to the current Sol.

[climber]

Thanks for your hard work Bill, I like the idea and the result.

[MoreInput]

First animation of my life. It's the view of Endeavour north rim from sol 774 to 2356.

That's a fantastic view. I also had the same idea, but no clue about how to do this. It is really looking cool!
Some ideas for improvement: Could it be possible to adapt the colors so that the animation will be much smoother?

[Stu]

Excellent job, Bill, especially love the YouTube version where you can see Endeavour AND Victoria Crater at the same time, really nice touch that.

[brellis]

I love this vid, Bill -- the shots from across Victoria are very dramatic in the context of this sequence. I actually like the differences in shading, and someday soon, you might add some new upcoming views and switch it to color as we get closer. I think about a piece of music that builds like Ravel's Bolero to accompany...

[Tesheiner]

Here's a pancam mosaic made from the "drive-direction" shots taken on sol 2363 and 2364.
I'm wondering if the dark feature on the left-most image could be ... Santa Maria? At least it is more or less in the correct heading.

[Stu]

The faraway hills of Endeavour are getting quite hypnotising now...