Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 1: Site 7 to Waypoint 1, Sol324 [Jul4,'13] to Sol391 [Sep12,'13] Options

[Gerald]

After quite a while, here two enhanced (in a non-uniform way) MARDIs, Sol 388 and Sol 390:

The Sol 390 image shows a broken thin layer or crust.

[walfy]

A bumpy ride on Sol 390:



Is the NAVCAM held in a fixed position on these rides?

[PaulH51]

Now we have reached Darwin, would it be a good time for creating "Journey to Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons), Part 2"?

ADMIN: Well at least Part 1A. Part 2 will start after we have left this waypoint. Posts for events after Sol 392 should go here.

[Astro0]

Sol387 Mastcam (right) image. Stunning detail


Note: Very compressed JPG to get it under the forum limits. Done with good 'ol Autostitch since I'm not at home much these days.

[dilo]

Stunning detail

Indeed! I extracted and sharpened / contrast enhanced the rightmost portion showing the "Entry Point":

Edit1: I re-made the stitch starting from the 3 original frames, due to strong jpeg compression of Astro0 mosaic...
Edit2: Added also a context map with angle covered by this mosaic (based on Joe's CuriosityRover Mapit!)

[Astro0]

I really like the crater (crater-like?) formation here - cropped from a wider panorama.
Hope that Curiosity pops over for a closer look.


Again autostitched and compressed.

[iMPREPREX]

387:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84750994@N05/...in/photostream/

388 with anaglyph:

GigaPan: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/140196
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84750994@N05/...in/photostream/

[EdTruthan]

Gave it my best shot but... looks like a no go on the The Long Baseline Sol 388 / 389 MC 100 combo...

Seems a 25 meter baseline for something as as close as the basin makes a full width panoramic anaglyph darn near impossible. Too dang close. Placing the channel focal point on any particular feature does allow for a reasonably good view of the feature itself and it's immediate surroundings, but the channel separation to almost anything increasingly farther or nearer spreads the channels so radically (within a relatively short distance) that holding focus becomes all but impossible. And forget about zooming in. I thought about skewing the channels laterally to try and narrow the separation but perspective goes wonky and the baseline-to-target angles vary so widely across the field that any consistency is out of the question. C'est la vie.

That said - having both channels as layers in Photoshop and moving them around to center the focus on various parts of the panorama results in some shockingly deep perspectives but one must remained pretty well zoomed out so as not to lose focus.

Here are two examples - (view them well zoomed out) -:

Example 1 - Focus is on a rock pile at lower center of frame:


Example 2 - Focus is on another rock pile at lower center of frame:


Radical ay? The panos were stunningly captured...

Here are the Full Resolution 2-D Versions (similarly projected, but not anaglyph aligned):

Sol 388 (Full Resolution - 25,356 x 2183 pixels):


Sol 389 (Full Resolution - 25,400 x 2274 pixels):


Now if we could just get a stereo match for this here puppy, we'd be stylin'...
...first climb out of Darwin perhaps, at an 80 meter baseline and I'd buy the first round for everyone...

Sol 387 - MC 100 - 9 Frame Pano -(Full Resolution - 9,772 x 1431):

[blake]

I think some glinting can be seen off of this rock at different angles (particularly the upper left corner of the image). Sol 387 MAHLI, cropped, and downsized to fit upload limits.

[Phil Stooke]

Belated post - I returned to these sols to make a ChemCam RMI mosaic of Ameto, a long-range target imaged on sol 327. This is the area at the foot of the steep slope up into Mt. Sharp, still about 7 or 8 km from where we are now (sol 794 as I do this). We will be in the upper right corner of this area about 2 years from now after crossing the 'foothills' region.

Phil