[X] My Assistant

[jamescanvin]

Since the main Victoria thread is now explicitly about Duck Bay and the surrounds here is another for far rim discussions.

Quite a bit more has been revealed after the last drives. Here's the MOC/Navcam match.




James

[CosmicRocker]

I wanted to compare our previously best MOC image to the new MRO image. This animated gif is so much nicer with a few transition frames, but I couldn't get it below the limit without further reducing the image quality, so I had to reduce it to two frames. It may not be a truly correct comparison since the best version of the MOC image available to me was the recently released subframe jpeg, which is surely not as good as it could be compared to the quality of the MRO image released today.

Anyway, we have been looking at the MOC image for quite some time now, and we've commented on how much better it was than the previous MOC that was not captured with c-Proto technology. But this new step change in image quality is seriously impressive. I have tried to do minimal damage to the original images while constraining this file to less than 1 MB in size. I am sure that both images are degraded in some ways. I had to rescale them to match and also to rotate one to match the other.

The viewing geometry of the orbiters is different, and I have no idea how to adjust for the perspective differences, so I simply tried to register the images as best I could on the dune field at the bottom of the crater, so the crater rim jumps between the two frames. My original intention was to look for changes in the dune field geometry. I also tried to find some boulders that might have recently fallen from the cliffs, but I do not see any convincing changes in either. If you have animation software, take these 2 frames and insert some fade transitions.

Wow, this is better than taking a new car for a spin...