[X] My Assistant

[stewjack]

Now that we know where we are going, I thought we could use a topic about our future route. I hope that a few images will get the rover rolling - downhill.

READY START

BACKGROUND
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From Steve Squyres Misson Update
Octoberber 4, 2005

Extending eastward from the summit of Husband Hill is a broad ridge that we've named Haskin Ridge. It trends ENE from the summit, does a little dog-leg to the right, and then trends ESE for a bit. Right at the dog-leg there's a pretty steep step, which we're not certain we can get down. So we're going to descend the upper portion of the ridge, right to where the step is, and assess the situation. If we can see a safe route, then we'll continue down onto the lower portion of Haskin Ridge.
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My Image of Haskin Ridge
I tried to get the best image of Haskin ridge that was available, and this is a crop from a true color TIFF summit panorama, located on the the Cornell Pancam web site. I converted the tif file to a gif file to save some download time.

Warning : File Size : 1.7 MB
Cornell True Color Pan of Haskin Ridge

Reference
WEB page of Husband Hill Summit Panorama
Warning: File Size : 80 MB !!!!
Preliminary Spirit Pancam of "Husband Hill Summit" Panorama

Jack

PS If you can't see the "steep step" that Squyres mentions - try this orbital image. I believe that the "steep step" is the dark shadow cutting across the ridge that is located directly under the word CRATER. I think that it is also visible in the true color pancam image, but it is less obvious.

Orbital View of Husband Hill and Basin

[akuo]

Looks like they found an interesting outcrop. That they drove over yestersol, and now came back to.

[jvandriel]

A 360 degree panoramic view on Haskin Ridge.

Taken with the L0 navcam on Sol 657.

jvandriel

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[dot.dk]

Looks like Spirit is driving towards East Basin (away from Inner Basin)?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...B1P0705L0M1.JPG

Because she found some nice outcrop

http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/...ARP1201L0M1.JPG

Just in time for the weekend.

[Tman]

I liked the tone of Steve's voice when he said ABYSS? I enjoyed transcribing that.
Sorry Ustrax 
Nick

Hey, just a guess. Suddenly they publish this name (Ultreya) in an official map - who knows! If there isn't an important reason to give another name.

[jvandriel]

A pancam panoramic view of Inner Basin seen from Haskin Ridge.

Taken with the L7 pancam on Sol 657.

Stitched with autostitch and MichaelT's anti-vignetting tool.

jvandriel

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[Nix]

woaw- Homeplate is starting to look big, and rocky..

your previous pan jvandriel - The view of the tracks leading up the summit This will be a very spectacular 90°-360° pancam color panorama (whatever they decide on the scope).

Is it my impression or did you recently perfected your horizon?

Nico

[stewjack]

Long BaseLine Animated GIF of Pitchers Mound

Since we dropped down off the hilltop I thought I would try and make a long baseline 3D view of the "pitchers mound" feature. using the L7 PAN's from sol 595 and sol 658.

Because at sol 658 we were many meters lower than the top of the hill, I had hoped to demonstrate a vertical dimension in my flicker gif. However, the horizontal change in angle was so much greater, it visually overrides most of the vertical dimensionality. But not all!

Warning: I can not vouch for the scientific "accuracy" of any 3D information in my long baseline animated gif's. I create these things without fully understanding what I am doing!

File Size 119 Kb

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[jvandriel]

Bedrock on Haskin Ridge.

Seen on Sol 659 with the L0 navcam.

jvandriel

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[jvandriel]

A 360 degree panoramic view on Haskin Ridge.

Taken on Sol 659 with the L0 Navcam.


Nico,

as you can see in this view the horizon is straight and horizontal and 1 line. ( good matching ). Every time I make a pano I keep the horizon as straight as possible.
When the horizon is not 1 line ( as you can see in some of the Opportunity panorama's and also in some of the Spirit panorama's ) i think that there are not enough or clear matching points for Autostitch for good matching at the horizon. ( dark area )
The matching in front of these pano's is most of the time excelent.
It is a matter of changing the parameters until you have the best result. Sometimes you are lucky and sometimes not.
Changing the brightness before stitching is also possible and gives some times good results.
Autostitch and MichaelT's anti-vignetting are still great programs.

jvandriel

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[ustrax]

  Hey, just a guess. Suddenly they publish this name (Ultreya) in an official map - who knows! If there isn't an important reason to give another name.

I'm still around...
Let's see how Steve will spell OH MY GOD IT'S AN ABYSS! when we get there...

Kidding...Damn why is it taking so long?...

[TheChemist]

A 360 degree panoramic view on Haskin Ridge.
Taken on Sol 659 with the L0 Navcam.
jvandriel

Look at the two pairs of tracks ....
Seems to me Spirit had a secret date on Haskin Ridge with an unidentified rover.

[mhoward]

It looks more like she noticed some tasty outcrop along the way and actually backtracked to check it out. No doubt she will linger here over the weekend.

Edit: Oh, never mind, looks like that's already been observed.

[jvandriel]

A 360 degree pancam L1 panorama on Haskin Ridge.

Taken on Sol 659 with the L1 Pancam.

The original pano is 13.9MB and consist of 27 images.

jvandriel

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[jvandriel]

TheChemist,

2 tracks.

One track for looking and taking pictures of the North Side of Haskin Ridge and the other one for looking and taking pictures of the South Side of Haskin Ridge.
See earlier pano's.

jvandriel

[jvandriel]

A pancam panoramic view of Inner Basin.

Taken with the R1 pancam on Sol 660.

jvandriel

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