Spirit and Opportunity planetary imaging Options

[elakdawalla]

I've been talking with Mark Lemmon about rover imaging of planetary targets, and he shared with me a list of the observations made by Spirit and Opportunity over the years. Some of these may already have been posted on this forum, but not with image data from the PDS. Would anyone here be interested in digging into the archival data on the analyst's notebook and producing pretty versions of some of these observations? I can help with locating and downloading data if you need it. Here is the list:

Sol A/1998: Earth? & Deimos? Pancam with Navcam context that includes horizon. Seq ID is p2746

Sols A/1943-1949: Earth (marginal) and Venus, with horizon & Navcam. These include "pre-point" images (p2736) in addition to the observations (p2737). Data taken sol 1943, 1944, 1945. In next ones, observation seq id is p2739: sol 1946, 1947, 1948. Now it's seq id p2741: sol 1949.

Sol A/63: (already publicly released). Pancam p2733 & Navcam p1934

Sol B/718: Earth & Jupiter rise movie, also Venus in a single frame at the end, Navcam context. Yes, three planets in a single observation. I'm not sure which of the sequences on sol 718 this is.

Sol B/687: Earth, Jupiter, & clouds. Again, not sure of the sequence ID on sol 687.

[James Sorenson]

Starry Night shows an apparent magnitude of Earth -2.23 and Venus -3.83 at the time of that specific observation on Sol-1946, I have wondered before how accurately Starry Night is with that. Of coarse dust in the atmosphere and scattering would affect whats visible from the surface.