Exploring Mt Sharp - The Dunes - Part 1: Bagnold Dunes, Site 51-53, Sol 1172-1273, November 24, 2015-March 6, 2016 Options

[PaulH51]

Midnight Planets reporting that Curiosity moved approximately 46.2m SSE (161º) on Sol 1172. LINK Quick and Dirty L-NavCam using the 5 available frames (MS ICE), reduced ~10% to get within the UL limit

[PaulH51]

Sol 1173: L-MastCam, MS ICE, enhanced. All three RH side wheels and a mix of exposed bedrock and mini-ripples

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[Arizona Dave]

Sol 1173: L-MastCam, MS ICE, enhanced. All three RH side wheels and a mix of exposed bedrock and mini-ripples

Awesome!!! Can you do for SOL 1176? There is an awesome disturbed area...I stitched together, but my skills really well, not the best.

[PaulH51]

....Can you do for SOL 1176? There is an awesome disturbed area...

Here is the 1176 L-MastCams in a mosaic (using MS ICE), sharpened and enhanced after stitching

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EDIT: Mission Update by Ken Herkenhoff - Sol 1183: Completing mobility tests. LINK

Today we are planning the last sol of the mobility test, turning and backing out of the sand while taking multiple Hazcam images, then pausing to take Navcam and Mastcam images of the wheel tracks. But first, Mastcam will take multispectral images of a rock named “Narabeb” and a soil target dubbed “Kubib.” The right Mastcam will also acquire another 2x2 mosaic of Secomib, to look for changes in the trench wall, and image the spots where the APXS was placed on the sand. The biggest challenge for me as SOWG Chair today was to prioritize the post-drive data, as the volume of data expected to be received in time for planning tomorrow is smaller than usual. We’re hoping that the rover will drive close enough to “High Dune” to allow contact science on the dark dune sand, so we’ll need good images of the arm workspace. But we’re also planning to drive again this weekend, so we’ll also need images in the direction of the drive. It looks like we will get just enough data to enable a full weekend plan, assuming that all the orbiter and ground assets work as we’ve come to expect.
Later in the afternoon, the ChemCam RMI and right Mastcam will acquire a small mosaic of an outcrop up on Mount Sharp, and both Mastcams will image the ground in front of the rover. Finally, the left Mastcam will acquire a mosaic of the ground and sand to the right of the rover, and MARDI will take another twilight image.

[Arizona Dave]

[quote name='PaulH51' date='Dec 3 2015, 07:28 PM' post='228302']
Here is the 1176 L-MastCams in a mosaic (using MS ICE), sharpened and enhanced after stitching


Wow, really amazing...There are several very odd-interesting objects in the frame, in addition to the disrupted rock that looks like it "blew" up after being disturbed...

Something that really catches my eye is smack-dab at the lower intersection of the right 2 frames, right where the 2 frames intersect at the top of the blacked out missing area...it literally looks like translucent ice-like "wavey" thin "something"...

Also nee an interesting tube-clast sticking up in the far upper-left left-most frame.

THANK YOU!!!