Sol581: Spirit Arrived!, ...on the summit of Husband hill |
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Sol581: Spirit Arrived!, ...on the summit of Husband hill |
 Aug 24 2005, 10:33 AM
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Seeing those views of Homeplate, I can't help thinking that we waited so long to get to the summit, now I can't wait for us to get on the road again to these exceptional new places. I'm sure the rover team must be falling all over themselves wrestling with the possibilities of what to do next!
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Note that with long-base-line stereo images from the hilltop, we can SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING!.... rather than mostly guess, as we did on the climb. and going DOWNHILL will help extravagently.. just as long as we don'g to downhill "oops"...
thump. bump! Crunch! TINKLE! *** WAIL! *** |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:42 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Aug 24 2005, 10:50 AM) Homeplate as seen by pancam L2! Image removed by paxdan (L5 and L6 are available too)  Sorry to repost the whole image, doug can you resize it down please. It looks to me like the top of that little knoll to the right of home plate is made of the same stuff as home plate itself. it looks like it might be the same layer. there is another fragment of similar looking material above and to the left of home plate. Perhaps it is a harder layer, any thoughts? |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:45 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (paxdan @ Aug 24 2005, 10:42 AM) Sorry to repost the whole image, doug can you resize it down please. Nope  One downside of invision is that you can make an image smaller. I may see if V2.1 allows it - as it would be nice to have them at 512 x 512 instead. Doug |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Paxdan commented: "It looks to me like the top of that little knoll to the right of home plate is made of the same stuff as home plate itself. it looks like it might be the same layer. there is another fragment of similar looking material above and to the left of home plate. Perhaps it is a harder layer, any thoughts?
The top of the knob to the right of homeplate is very red, while homeplate, especially near it's outer edge is bright, but decidedly not red. There are some very sharp outcrops to the 10:00 clock angle position <upper left> from homeplate. They're very red, too, but just to the left of them are some bright but less-red materials, rather like homeplate's color. |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 30-March 05 Member No.: 223 |
QUOTE (edstrick @ Aug 24 2005, 12:19 PM) 6 frame color pan (bands 2,5,6) No color correction except the left image (bands 2 and 5, with a corner missing, adjusted to match) Edge sharpened for details on the hills to the south. ********** DROOL! *********** Gonna short out my keyboard at this rate.... phantastic, edstrick ! here is my attempt at a color re-calibrated version:  click here for full resolution version |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
A simple L256 of a Pancam tricolor set of Homeplate, in glorious GeoColor.
Note that Homeplate is only one exposure of what has been termed the "Layered Unit" in the southern basin and the early interpretation of the "cindercone" is that it a simply a resistant caprock over a darker unit. Interesting weathering/erosion processes here. Lovely area! --Bill PS-- it's a flood; there have been a half dozen new messages since I worked this message up... -------------------- |
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Aug 24 2005, 10:59 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Guys!!!
Stop that!!! You are killing me with heavy delight and an overdose of amazement!!! 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Aug 24 2005, 11:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Nirgal said: here is my attempt at a color re-calibrated version.
Good tweek.. that looks reasonably close to "real" color. I wish I had access to serious NASA/USGS image processing software (I probably actually do, but no time to deal with learning modern stuff)... I was once able to extract some pretty spectacular stuff out of Viking imagery with "principal components analysis". The color distribution is dominated by red/blue color variations, but there's much more in this data, though at much lower spectral contrast. Be a help to pick out different geologic units if I had it. |
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Aug 24 2005, 11:08 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Hopefully some of the flood of data can be turned into super-res imagery of Home Plate and environs... ...it certainly looks like cap rock to me (at present!).
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Aug 24 2005, 11:27 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I have images of Alan, Nico and I 'virtually' racing one another to make this one
  http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...3_homeplate.jpg 2Mbytes Doug |
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Aug 24 2005, 11:51 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Looking at the latest pancam images I could see one thing, the terrain closer to Ultreya is really getting darker and darker, and then I look closer and...
Is it a rock on the hill? Or...Is it the first glimpse of Ultreya?... http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustr...ltreyasight.jpg (Color image by Nirgal) -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Aug 24 2005, 11:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
What a great time!!!
I'm wandering around in a "realtime" Mars exhibition...Can you imagine there sit some of the MER team in their room and behind runs a computer with Unmanned Spaceflight.com, then suddenly someone call "hey a next image coming in" after that the answer "copy that, take it on the left screen"...   Doug, thats a beauty again!
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Aug 24 2005, 12:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
I would love to see a Photoshop of a ocean on the lower plains to get a feel for what this area looked like millions of years ago.
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Aug 24 2005, 12:25 PM
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Aaargh it's all happening too fast and i've got to go to work before I can look at all this new stuff and The book just arrived in the post!
  Read you later Roy F |
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