Exploring Mt Sharp north of the dunes - Part 1: Beyond Pahrump Hills, Site 45-50, Sol 923-1147, March 12-October 28, 2015 Options

[eliBonora]

looking back
(Rear Hazcam in color sol 1143)

[PaulH51]

Another take on the L-MastCam mosaic with a few more images thrown in for good luck and an annotated inset thanks to Phil Stooke's earlier post.

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EDIT
Midnight Planets shows a drive of ~12.6m ENE on sol 1141, interesting direction takes the rover back towards Birdger Basin, maybe a small diversion to find a friendlier path? Link : http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/sol/01144.html

[Guest_Actionman_*]

Sol 1134 & 1137

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[jvandriel]

The Navcam L Panoramic View on Sol 1144.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

Thanks, Jan! Here it is in a circular view (it's rather distorted by the relief in the local outcrops).

Phil

[PaulH51]

End-of-drive L-MastCam mosaic sol 1144 looking back at Greenhorn and Big Sky. A taster for a full 360 L-MastCam pano

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Mission Update from Ryan Anderson: Sol 1146-1147: A View of Meeteetse LINK

The weekend drive was successful, placing us nicely on an overlook of the “Meeteetse” area. The focus for Sol 1146 is to get some good color stereo images of the whole area, including “Big Sky,” “Greenhorn,” and “Meeteetse”. Mastcam will take a 16x3 mosaic of the Meeteetse area, plus a 12x1 right-eye mosaic of some nearby resistant ridges. It will also measure the amount of dust in the atmosphere by looking at the sun, and take a documentation image of the target “Belle Fourche” after ChemCam analyzes it. ChemCam also has a “passive sky” observation, where we use the ChemCam spectrometers to stare at the sky and measure the abundance of gases in the atmosphere.
On Sol 1147, the main activity is to deliver some of the material sampled at the “Greenhorn” drill hole to the SAM instrument, and then run a SAM evolved gas analysis and tunable laser spectrometer (EGA/TLS) experiment on the sample. This involves heating the sample gradually and measuring the gases that are produced as it breaks down.

[PaulH51]

Postcard from Mars... L-MastCam 1144 using some of the frames that will eventually make a stunning 360 pano

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[PaulH51]

RMI Mosaic of 'Belle Fourche' sol 1146 location shown on 1144 NavCam mosaic crop.

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[jvandriel]

The Mastcam L panoramic view on Sol 1144.

Jan van Driel

[PaulH51]

The Mastcam L panoramic view on Sol 1144.

Great processing Jan Here is my rough and ready take using MS ICE, some stitching errors (as usual) but a great view of the mountain and the crater. Looking forward to seeing some other takes here..

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[Herobrine]

NAVCAM travel animation for Sol 1144 is 28 frames.
Here's a small preview of the left NAVCAM's view:

And here is the full-size (512x256) stereo pair for Parallel and Cross-Eye viewing. Files sizes are 4.2 MiB each.

[elakdawalla]

With the drive on sol 1148, I've started a new thread. Onward to the dunes!

Anything up until the drive on sol 1148 (including the nice Mastcam stereo pan they took before the drive) should be here, anything after the sol 1148 drive over there.

[neo56]

My take on the 360° panorama at Meeteeste area with pics of sols 1144 & 1148:

[neo56]

I'd like to fill the black gap in my last panorama where there are no photo of the rover. Does anyone know a recent sol when Curiosity has fully imaged its deck ?

[mcaplinger]

Does anyone know a recent sol when Curiosity has fully imaged its deck ?

This has never been done with Mastcam.

I suppose in theory the gap could be filled with MAHLI self-portrait data, though that would be geometrically challenging.

I have the impression that occasionally Navcam is used to image the whole deck, but I don't have any tools that can conveniently figure out when this was done. I know it happened shortly after landing (see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/mult...a/pia16063.html ) We have occasionally tried to get a hybrid Mastcam/Navcam pan into the plan, but without science justification this is a tough sell.