Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 3A: In-situ science at the Kimberley, Sol 596 [Apr 10,'14] to 633 [May 18, '14] Options

[Gerald]

... I'd be interested to hear if others had more information or plausible ideas about this.

That's a focus-stacked image, composed of portions of several images.
The focus stacking algorithm probably didn't find a sharp version of the blurry region.
The algorithm needs a subframe of some size to determine the best focus distance. The jump of the radial distance of the imaged rock within a small region, together with bright feature-rich foreground and dark feature-poor background, may have tricked the algorithm.

The single images usually are only available as thumbnails, e.g. this and this image.

Edit: This image combines the distance map (green channel) and the brightness of the original image (as red and blue channel) :

The small mismatch gets visible.
(I don't think, that there is a way to fix this with a reasonable effort.)

[neo56]

Panorama of Mount Remarkable and surroundings taken on sols 597 & 601 with MC34:

[neo56]

Amazing photo taken by HiRISE of Curiosity at The Kimberley

[neo56]

Mount Remarkable from the surface and from space! North is right on HiRISE picture.

[algorithm]

Nice one Neo56,
The ultimate context camera!
This really helps to visualise the rover position in my head, thanks.
Why does the mound in the HiRISE image appear to be overhanging (dark shadows), yet appears to be a smoothish slope in the MC image, I know there are probably different lighting scenarios but ....
Does the shape of the shadow reflect the profile of the mound?

[algorithm]

I was reading something today regarding fossilised raindrops and this part of a sol601 image seemed to fit the bill.
From what I read the theory seemed a bit 'iffy' (technical term!)
What do the auspiscious members think?

[serpens]

I'm not sure that auspicious is the word you were looking for? Most probably gas escape as we have seen before but it would be helpful if you could identify the context image to confirm the scale.

[atomoid]

sol603 experimental crosseye (at left) using adjacent target as stand-in for the R image since the normal pair R image underexposure had to be contrast-matched (xeye at right). The swap-out on the left xeye below actually produced a better result imho.. but since this matches R to L as the panhead pivots L>R instead of L to R with static panhead, im not sure if the resultant interpupillary distance in this scenario is wider or tighter..

[Gerald]

I was reading something today regarding fossilised raindrops and this part of a sol601 image seemed to fit the bill.
...

Here are similar features visible. Since the features aren't exclusively parallel to the the suspected sedimentary layers, I'd think fossilized traces of raindrops are very unlikely.

Interesting features, nevertheless!

Edit: Panholes show some remote similarity. But the surface is probably too inclined for some of the features to allow them being panholes.

Edit: Tafoni, and salt weathering can occur on inclined surfaces.
That's one of the options I couldn't rule out easily.

[atomoid]

interesting red splotch on isolated rock in sol602 M-100. just a dust-blasted face?
crosseye paired with its M-34 to show the rock 'arm' which seem to be ubiquitous in this area.

[jmknapp]

I was looking at the HiRISE DTM for the area & it looks like the peak of Mt. Remarkable is about 6 meters above the current rover position--is that right? Here's a map with 1m contours:



0.25m contours:

[Phil Stooke]

Wow, that's really nice - I just had to overlay it on my route map:



(and just in time! - jmknapp changed the map while I was busy overlaying it...) (oops - then he added it again - I can hardly keep up!)

Phil

[jvandriel]

The Navcam NL B view on Sol 603.

Jan van Driel

[jvandriel]

and the Stereo one from Sol 603.

Jan van Driel

[jmknapp]

(and just in time! - jmknapp changed the map while I was busy overlaying it...) (oops - then he added it again - I can hardly keep up!)

Sorry--messing with the software & realized the contour spacing wasn't right at first. Nice overlay!