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post Dec 13 2005, 06:21 PM
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For a while I've been realising that scale is difficult to judge in rover pictures. Given the close horizon on Mars, I often suspect that the features I'm looking at may be smaller than I think. For example, would climbing the Columbia Hills be an easy ten-minute stroll or an epic climb for a human?

Of course I can look up the numerical sizes of these features but numbers don't always make things as clear as pictures. Perhaps some of you who specialise in image manipulation might be able to produce some versions of rover pictures with a superimposed average-sized human figure, to give an idea of how these features would appear to human explorers?

Just a thought. If it sounds utterly pointless, ignore me! smile.gif
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- The Singing Badger   Request For Scale Pictures   Dec 13 2005, 06:21 PM
- - general   Husband Hill is about as high as the Statue of Lib...   Dec 13 2005, 06:57 PM
|- - The Singing Badger   Cool!! And, wow, the hills are actually BI...   Dec 13 2005, 07:21 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (The Singing Badger @ Dec 13 2005, 08:2...   Dec 13 2005, 07:54 PM
|- - The Singing Badger   Wow! I thought the hills were way smaller than...   Dec 13 2005, 08:15 PM
|- - Chmee   QUOTE (helvick @ Dec 13 2005, 03:54 PM) A bi...   Dec 14 2005, 05:00 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (Chmee @ Dec 14 2005, 06:00 PM)Hey, OUR...   Dec 14 2005, 06:31 PM
|- - The Singing Badger   The Columbia Hills montage was amazing. I would no...   Dec 14 2005, 07:29 PM
- - general   Another London comparison: Husband Hill (268ft) is...   Dec 13 2005, 08:28 PM
|- - MaxSt   Sometimes I wonder how many hours would it take fo...   Dec 13 2005, 09:37 PM
- - atomoid   in Mars' low gravity she could probably bunny-...   Dec 13 2005, 09:58 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (atomoid @ Dec 13 2005, 01:58 PM)in Mar...   Dec 13 2005, 11:27 PM
|- - lyford   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 13 2005, 03:27 PM)wo...   Dec 14 2005, 12:28 AM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (lyford @ Dec 14 2005, 12:28 AM)"U...   Dec 14 2005, 11:59 AM
- - Nix   lol Emily no movie of your spacesuit adventure? ...   Dec 14 2005, 07:14 AM
- - dvandorn   In re pressure suit gloves, John Young made a comm...   Dec 14 2005, 09:01 AM
- - djellison   I put Spirit's traverse to date onto a map of ...   Dec 14 2005, 10:03 AM
- - Reckless   It will be great to see a MER route map superimpos...   Dec 14 2005, 11:50 AM
- - djellison   This is a UK only joke I'll overlay the Merid...   Dec 14 2005, 12:18 PM
|- - ustrax   I made a comparison between Spirit's traverse ...   Dec 14 2005, 12:56 PM
|- - ustrax   I forgot Oppy's tracks...They go a little furt...   Dec 14 2005, 04:05 PM
||- - brianc   Looks like Oppy's 'just out of the woods...   Dec 14 2005, 04:52 PM
||- - ustrax   QUOTE (brianc @ Dec 14 2005, 04:52 PM)Looks l...   Dec 14 2005, 04:57 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 14 2005, 12:56 PM)I made ...   Dec 14 2005, 09:04 PM
||- - ustrax   QUOTE (dilo @ Dec 14 2005, 09:04 PM)Ustrax, I...   Dec 15 2005, 10:36 AM
||- - dilo   QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 15 2005, 10:36 AM)dilo......   Dec 15 2005, 10:16 PM
|- - MaxSt   QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 14 2005, 08:56 AM)I made ...   Dec 14 2005, 09:15 PM
- - TheChemist   At last the cleaning events have been explained ...   Dec 14 2005, 01:01 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (TheChemist @ Dec 14 2005, 01:01 PM)At ...   Dec 14 2005, 02:51 PM
- - aldo12xu   I've had a crappy morning up until now Ustra...   Dec 14 2005, 03:34 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (aldo12xu @ Dec 14 2005, 03:34 PM)I...   Dec 14 2005, 03:38 PM
- - ilbasso   Not to mention that our monument has BOTH of its a...   Dec 14 2005, 05:12 PM
- - djellison   Steve used Big Ben when he presented at DPS iirc ...   Dec 14 2005, 06:14 PM
- - Gonzz   Yikes!!!! I wouldn´t like to do a ...   Dec 14 2005, 07:48 PM
- - Bill Harris   Lyford, go to your room... Seriously, since you h...   Dec 14 2005, 08:30 PM
- - djellison   If we were to add a person to give scale to MER im...   Dec 14 2005, 09:03 PM
|- - The Singing Badger   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 14 2005, 09:03 PM)If w...   Dec 14 2005, 09:11 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (The Singing Badger @ Dec 14 2005, 01:1...   Dec 15 2005, 12:00 AM
|- - The Singing Badger   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 15 2005, 12:00 AM)Yo...   Dec 15 2005, 03:28 AM
- - djellison   Shatner's let himself down I'm afraid - he...   Dec 14 2005, 09:13 PM
- - MaxSt   ...   Dec 15 2005, 10:35 AM
|- - Toma B   QUOTE (MaxSt @ Dec 15 2005, 01:35 PM)... Ni...   Dec 15 2005, 11:06 AM
- - djellison   Ahh - you see, now Emily's going "phew- g...   Dec 15 2005, 11:39 AM
- - alan   I want a closer look at this crack http://qt.explo...   Dec 15 2005, 02:31 PM
- - ilbasso   Here's the image I'm waiting to see:   Dec 15 2005, 02:32 PM
- - lyford   Great work, MaxSt and Ilbasso! Though I would...   Dec 15 2005, 04:38 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (lyford @ Dec 15 2005, 08:38 AM)Great w...   Dec 15 2005, 04:50 PM
- - djellison   I've been thinking about this, and putting, sa...   Dec 15 2005, 05:17 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 15 2005, 06:17 PM) I...   Dec 15 2005, 10:56 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 15 2005, 10:56 PM)his A...   Dec 15 2005, 11:56 PM
- - TheChemist   Doug, thank you, that last image of yours really m...   Dec 15 2005, 06:28 PM
- - Bill Harris   Ah... one of our own... there. --Bill   Dec 15 2005, 07:30 PM
- - djellison   The photo didnt quite sit on the mosaic properly, ...   Dec 15 2005, 07:35 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 15 2005, 07:35 PM)The ...   Dec 15 2005, 07:44 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 15 2005, 07:44 PM)Startin...   Dec 15 2005, 08:52 PM
|- - lyford   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 15 2005, 12:52 PM)...   Dec 15 2005, 10:28 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (lyford @ Dec 15 2005, 10:28 PM)I don...   Dec 15 2005, 10:42 PM
- - dot.dk   QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 15 2005, 07:44 PM)A new t...   Dec 15 2005, 08:07 PM
- - djellison   'Meanwhile, on the other side of the forum......   Dec 15 2005, 08:46 PM
- - djellison   This is the sort of thing I was thinking of, this ...   Dec 15 2005, 10:51 PM
- - Bill Harris   ...I guess that these three add new meaning to ...   Dec 16 2005, 02:08 AM
- - mars loon   As this picture from APOD today (12/17/05) eerily ...   Dec 17 2005, 04:37 PM
- - mars loon   and below is a view to the side even more reminisc...   Dec 17 2005, 04:47 PM


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