MSL Post Landing - Commissioning Period & Early Observations, Commissioning Activity Period 1B - Sols 9 through 16 Options

[djellison]

They're just wind baffles. The CHIMRA outlet doesn't dock to it in any way - just gets might close.

[jmknapp]

Finally found my red-blue glasses to check out some of the nice anaglyphs created by members here. Nice effects. Now I just wish there was a way to search for them by an "anaglyph" tag or some such. Or maybe a gallery page.

Here's a modest effort (just read a tutorial on how to do it in Photoshop) based on a MASTCAM 30/100 pair from sol 13.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...2000D1_DXXX.jpg
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...2000D1_DXXX.jpg




Nice to see the basic effect in action--now to make it better.

[Antonb]

Interesting. The lower layers are clearly horizontal, but the upper layers (at least those on the right side, and maybe the left) seem to be following the slope. Is this real, or an effect of erosion or perspective?

Tweaked to enhance tone contrast and vertically exaggerated, this view suggests a horizontally banded sequence overlaid by a folded or recumbent syncline.

[john_s]

Again, don't interpret the striations in the upper layer as necessarily original bedding- they are likely due to wind erosion. So I doubt we're seeing a syncline here, and certainly not a recumbent one (i.e., for non-geologists, a fold where one side is upside-down). If we are seeing original bedding, I'd interpret it as cross-bedding on massive scale.

John

[Gladstoner]

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[fredk]

Here's a modest effort (just read a tutorial on how to do it in Photoshop) based on a MASTCAM 30/100 pair from sol 13.

Unfortunately the mound is much too far away to see any stereo with mastcam. With careful aligning you can see that the L and R frames are indistinguishable. Here's my version of that anaglyph:

We can definitely expect some long-baseline stereo of the mound - they mentioned that at a recent press conference. I can't wait to see those!

[elakdawalla]

An attempt at infrared false color of the recent Mastcam-100s of Goulburn Scour. There's no obvious indication of which images were taken through which filters, so I have no idea what wavelengths we're looking at here other than that they're infrared (which is why the images look grayscale: all three Bayer filters are mostly transparent to infrared wavelengths).

mcaplinger -- are the color Mastcams always shot in a particular order?

Larger here

[ugordan]

(which is why the images look grayscale: all three Bayer filters are mostly transparent to infrared wavelengths).

That and the fact the cameras only return the grayscale image for such observations, IIRC.

[jmknapp]

Unfortunately the mound is much too far away to see any stereo with mastcam. With careful aligning you can see that the L and R frames are indistinguishable.

Interesting... I guess that's fake stereo in action. I tried it again with a pair closer up, also sol 13 (Goulburn):



And with levels adjusted:



http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...3000D1_DXXX.jpg
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...3000D1_DXXX.jpg

Yes?

[Stu]

We'll see some sights when Curiosity starts driving through this lot, won't we..?

[mcaplinger]

mcaplinger -- are the color Mastcams always shot in a particular order?

You might very well think they were shot in the same order as shown in http://www.redorbit.com/images/pic/63392/c...rovers-mastcam/ -- I couldn't possibly comment.

[mcaplinger]

That and the fact the cameras only return the grayscale image for such observations, IIRC.

Absolutely correct, even channels where the Bayer pattern isn't transparent, and which would otherwise be tinted (like the thumbnails) are sent in grayscale.

[mcaplinger]

are the color Mastcams always shot in a particular order?

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/pdf/2541.pdf at least describes the order of filters L0-L7 and R0-R7.

[Jaro_in_Montreal]

Would anyone here happen to know roughly how deep the 0.4-millimeter hole in a typical basalt rock might be after 30 ChemCam laser shots ?

How is that likely to change for clay or sulfate minerals ?

Is there any risk of blowback of material from the hole into the ChemCam telescope ? ....is there a minimum distance to target to be respected ?

Thanks.

[atomoid]

We'll see some sights when Curiosity starts driving through this lot, won't we..?

indeed! for those who havent stumbled on this yet, its a load of fun to 'preview' what this might look like from Curiosity's POV using the 'free-range rover' (crank up the throttle at dashboard left)