Opportunity Route Map Options

[tim53]

thx Emily! It's like living a dream to fly around G.Mars

Hi all!

I've been trying to find a streamlined way of posting my Opportunity location maps for public access for some time now, and hopefully that's going to start happening soon (today?). In the meantime, here are my latest (remember that Oppy hasn't moved in a few sols). First is the map at the HiRISE mosaic resolution of 25cm/pixel. Second is a 5cm/pixel projection of the Navcam panoramas onto the HiRISE image, around Concepcion.

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[vikingmars]

your data is perfect as usual, Tim !

[Tesheiner]

I've been trying to find a streamlined way of posting my Opportunity location maps for public access for some time now, and hopefully that's going to start happening soon (today?).

KML files for Google Mars on the MER website maybe? That would be great!

Second is a 5cm/pixel projection of the Navcam panoramas onto the HiRISE image, around Concepcion.

I presume that's a projection of the 3D meshes generated from both L&R images. I would love to put my hands on such tools...

[tim53]

KML files for Google Mars on the MER website maybe? That would be great!

I'm hoping to do that at some point soon, but need to get the paper writ first that includes contributions from JPLers to the planning software used to make the maps.

-Tim.

[tim53]

I presume that's a projection of the 3D meshes generated from both L&R images. I would love to put my hands on such tools...

Forgot to comment on this. Yes, that is from the project's planning software. But I believe there is commercial software out there to do something similar, provided the camera models can be generated. For example, I use Point Grey Research firewire cameras for planetary imaging (I'm an amateur astronomer), and Pt Grey has stereo camera systems and software to build 3-D files from stereo pairs.

There must be others, but I haven't had any opportunities (sorry for the pun) to explore these myself.

-Tim.

[Tesheiner]

Update after sol 2161.

 Route_Map_Sol2161.kml ( 40.8K ) Number of downloads: 563

[Tesheiner]

... and after sol 2165.

 Route_Map_Sol2165.kml ( 41.17K ) Number of downloads: 503

[Explorer1]

Looks like we're leaving already!? Or are they stopping to examine the eject 'tail'?

[Floyd]

I think just going around all the rocks in this ray. A little dangerous to cross rock piles.

[Tesheiner]

Here's the GE map update after sol 2167.

 Route_Map_Sol2167.kml ( 41.39K ) Number of downloads: 443

[djellison]

Guys - a polite reminder -this thread is for maps, or discussion of making/tweaking/interpreting the maps. There are routine threads for discussion of actual rover ops.

[Tesheiner]

Yet another update. Sol 2170 i.e. yestersol.

 Route_Map_Sol2170.kml ( 41.58K ) Number of downloads: 482

[Tesheiner]

Here's the map for sol 2172.

 Route_Map_Sol2172.kml ( 41.9K ) Number of downloads: 519


I've included Santa Maria (Mini-Endurance) too. Note that the label is really displaced wrt the default low-res map; you must load SFJCody's maps to see if properly.

[Dig]

Congratulations Tesheiner. Emily Lakdawalla has a link to one of your route maps for Opportunity in an article in the Planetary Society Blog.

[Tesheiner]

Thanks Dig.
I read the article before your post but didn't realized the link was pointing here. In any case, I suppose that map was not the one used by SS on the conference but he would have used one from the project itself. That would be too much for the heart!