The Top of Vera Rubin Ridge Part 2, Site 67-73, sol 1944-2297, 24 Jan 2018-22 Jan 2019 Options

[Phil Stooke]

Regarding the Peace Vallis RMI images - we have two nice sequences very recently which I hope somebody will mosaic for us - you may find this new LPSC abstract useful:

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/2965.pdf

Interesting information on RMI and Mastcam observations including "super-resolution" efforts.

Phil

[PaulH51]

Nice find Phil, would be nice to see those figures used in that abstract at the full resolution one day, especially the "super-resolution" observations

[Phil Stooke]

I've updated the annotated image of the workspace to include the new drill attempt.

Phil

[PaulH51]

Hope someone with more skills and professional applications can have a go at assembling the Peace Vallis mosaics. ICE running on my old laptop will only join these 17 of the 20 in this set from 1981, and that was after much trial and error in cropping away the bright borders (vignetting?) from the overlapping regions before dropping into ICE. No additional processing was done on the images, just cropping and then into ICE.

[Phil Stooke]

Thanks, Paul. That image might seem hard to interpret or do anything with (not Paul's fault! It's the geometry) but look what happens when you stretch it out vertically to counter the foreshortening:

Imagine doing this with all the mosaics of the fan. Eventually you get good coverage of large areas with lots of scope for analysis of the geomorphology.



Phil

[PaulH51]

Imagine doing this with all the mosaics of the fan. Eventually you get good coverage of large areas with lots of scope for analysis of the geomorphology.

That certainly provides a different perspective

[jccwrt]

Taking Phil's idea and running with it a bit: a rough foreshortened-corrected 40 image RMI mosaic, and an animated map-projected version overlaid on the USGS orthophoto image of Gale Crater. Will definitely need to check this out with PDS data once it's released.

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[jccwrt]

Double-post just to add another attachment, which has Curiosity's current location as a red X and an outline of the RMI mosaic footprint.

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[PaulH51]

Fantastic work on the RMI mosaics guys
Simple animated GIF of the second sample acquisition attempt at Lake Orcadie 2 (1.5 second blink rate)
Source frames (sol 1980 & sol 1983) Margins added to roughly align the frames.
Now time to seek 'Softer Pastures'

[Phil Stooke]

Wow, Justin - fantastic results!

Phil

[PaulH51]

Here is my version of the sol 1984 long-distance RMI mosaic that the sol 1984 mission update refers to as 'a portion of the clay unit that represents part of Curiosity's future agenda'. I have sharpened the images a little before assembling in ICE. There was also another RMI sequence of the PV fan, but I think I best leave that mosaic to Justin and the other experts

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L panoramic view on Sol 1985.

Jan van Driel

[Ant103]

Sol 1985 Navcam panoramic

[Phil Stooke]

Thanks for that nice panorama! Here is a circular projection of it. You can see the tracks leading up from the previous outcrop site to the current location, almost in a straight line.

Phil

[PaulH51]

Nice work on the 360's and the circular projection
Here's the Sol 1985 L-MastCam Workspace mosaic. Unprocessed, only assembled in MS ICE.
No contact science planned on this gravelly patch of ground, so another drive is planned for 1986 heading towards the Northeast