First drill stop: John Klein in Yellowknife Bay, Site 6, Sol 166-271, January 23-May 12, 2013 Options

[Ant103]

It's good to be back with some imagery work. Sol 262 Navcam panoramic, not complete yet.

[Phil Stooke]

So nice to see this! I really appreciate all the work you do on these panoramas.

Phil

[Gerald]

Damia, nice to see you back, and your great panos!

Here a much more humble blink gif. It shows the effect of 197 sols of iSweep magnet on dust in the Martian atmosphere (Sol 36 and Sol 233):

Link to the blink.

[Gerald]

ChemCam laser shot holes have almost been closed during solar conjunction:

Link to a gif which compares sol 234 with sol 267, based on two Mastcam images of the respective sols.

Moving shadows and changing light conditions from 11 NavCam stereo images on sol 268, using the time information provided by http://curiosityrover.com/:

Link to the gif.

Science activities seem to be resuming.

[EdTruthan]

Once your eyes lock into stereo that's a great Navcam animation Gerald. And you were spot on with your 3 frame GIF a few posts back about the drifting evident in front of the rover. I hadn't noticed it at first - but yup it's there - especially in the area a bit to the left of the drill site, and even more detail now very clearly illustrated in your color GIF above. I was hoping to render an anaglyph version of it but there was no MC 34 counterpart on Sol 234. Shucks.

But here's an (non-animated) anaglyph view of the Sol 267 MC34/MC100 pairing of the drill holes.

[James Sorenson]

Glad to be back to work! Here are my version's

Sol's 188 - 267
http://makeagif.com/i/78Gurk

Sol's 229 - 267
http://makeagif.com/i/MNCgh4

[fredk]

Some discussion of Shaler in this BBC story.

[EdTruthan]

Animated GIF - anaglygh version - of the Sol 268 "Moving Shadows" sequence. This one is comprised of 15 frames at 7/10ths a second per frame. I left it at native resolution (cropped to the R-L overlap at 784x1020 pixels - and at 8.38Mb in size) so it may take several seconds to completely download before the animation starts re-looping at that rate.

[James Sorenson]

One of the Navcam Panorama's that was taken on Sol-270. This one was taken around 8:00 AM as the sun was rising above Mount Sharp.

Flickr preview having issues. Added links to images: -MOD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/8727260169/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/8727260865/

[Gerald]

Some of the Sol 270 actvities as "splitscreen":

Link to the gif.

[elakdawalla]

I've just created a new thread for Curiosity's ongoing adventures at Cumberland, making the split on sol 272 when she finally drove on from site 6/0000. Keep discussion of pre-conjunction imagery here, as well as analysis of changes that happened over conjunction, but head over to the other thread for Cumberland activities.

Also, anticipating that it's a question we're going to be handling over and over, I've moved the discussion of the dents in Curiosity's wheels to its own topic, so that every time someone asks the same questions, we can point there.

[Ant103]

Sol 270 Cumberland Mastcam100 mosaic

[wildespace]

Sol 270 Cumberland Mastcam100 mosaic

Curiosity was still at John Klein for this mosaic

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The last self-portrait at John Klein, taken on sol 177 before the drilling, has been updated with three new images (Sol 270) showing the two drill holes.

Official NASA release: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/mult...a/pia16937.html
My Photosynth panorama: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=fd07bb...a7-d11beac7a205

Animated gif comparison of before (sol 177) and after (sol 270) the John Klein drilling. http://www.pictureshack.us/images/15029_drill.gif



It's interesting to note how the drill test marks and the disturbed darker soil have been covered with the reddish dust over the course of time.