Cape Verde, The first cape visited Options

[Bill Harris]

There is an oatmeal (with blueberries) texture to the surface that makes me think that this is a primary characteristic of the rock, but this outcrop is undergoing non-usual wind erosion since the rock is elevated and exposed to the wind instead of laying on a flat plain. We'll know more soon after the grinding.

--Bill

[jvandriel]

Added one image.

The 360 degree panoramic view from Sol 959 and Sol 963.

Taken with the L0 Navcam.

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[jvandriel]

Here is that same place before brushing.

Taken on Sol 961 with the Mi camera.

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[Nirgal]

I see this one has already been done. Never the less, here's a 360x90 equirectangular projection of the Sol 959 Navcam pan facing East, followed by the full 360x180 version facing North, suitable for viewing in FSPViewer or another spherical panorama viewer.

I have not had much time lately to browse the forum ... but *WOW*
what a breathtaking view !
Congratulations Micheal, your panorama stitching work is getting better and better
This one is unbelievable... one of the definite all-time-favourite MER images !!



P.S. how did you manage to avoid the stitching-bumps in the horizon ??I understand you're using PTAssembler .. what additional tricks do you do in addition to the auto-exported MMB-panorama-files
to flatten/smoothen the horizon ... is it a matter of finding good control-points aong the horizon line ?

[mhoward]

Thanks, Nirgal. To answer your question, I'm exporting a PTGui project from MMB and using PTGui to stitch it. I am not generating any control points; MMB puts the camera pointing information in the PTGui project. That seems to eliminate most of the stitching errors that one tends to get in Autostitch (which was kind of the point, come to think of it). It also allows things like the Sol 950 Clouds stitch, which probably couldn't have been done without the camera pointings. Anyway, there's an option in the MMB panorama feature to export these PTGui/Hugin project files along with the brightness adjusted images; I think it's been discussed a little elsewhere. Only problem with it is that it depends on the MMB panorama metadata, which I update online based on the tracking info.

[Stu]

Luvverly new Pancams up...

[Floyd]

Will Opportunity be taking a big panorama from her current location during conjunction? Has anyone seen the commands show up in the image tracking log?

Thanks, Floyd

[climber]

Will Opportunity be taking a big panorama from her current location during conjunction? Has anyone seen the commands show up in the image tracking log?
Thanks, Floyd

Better to hurry! Officialy conjunction starts on October 16th

[alan]

Post related to Cape St Mary move to own thread.
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3351

[jamescanvin]

And the "Soup Dragon" posts moved to a dedicated thread.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3353

James

[Stu]

I think this image shows how amazing it is that we're getting ANYTHING from Mars at the moment...

Mars approaches the Sun

(Mars is the "star" to the left of the obscured Sun, and that's Venus on the right...)

[ustrax]

Looks like the intention passes for giving names of Cabo Verde's islands to the studied targets on the promontory...Great! Ilha do Fogo's (Island of Fire) landscape always seemed to me from another world...Something like Mars should look like

And I'm curious to know what place will be named after Ilha do Sal (Island of Salt)...
And, even if we don't have Ultreya (the pilgrims shout towards Santiago), we'll have Santiago itself at Victoria...

EDITED: One question...Can someone tell me where is located the Maio target referred on the update?

[Tesheiner]

Six sols, four drives and 127.61 meters (419 feet) later, Opportunity arrived at the rock target "Fogo" near the tip of Cape Verde.

Fogo = Fire = Ustrax.

EDITED: One question...Can someone tell me where is located the Maio target referred on the update?

It comes from a pancam shot taken on sol 955 in all filters before leaving Duck Bay, but only the tiny thumbnails have been downlinked for the time being. Here are two of them (L2 and L7), and you can see it's just another general view of the whole Cabo Verde as seen from Duck Bay.



Edited: Perhaps they are referring to the Cape's Wall as "Maio".

[ustrax]

816 posts and you're still quoting the whole of the post before yours...with all its images..... SLAP - Doug.


That one didn't ocurred me Tesheiner!...


About Maio, it appears on the update as Cabo Verde Maio all together...Maybe it's the whole wall of the cape...

[Tesheiner]

> About Maio, it appears on the update as Cabo Verde Maio all together

That name comes from here:

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Sol Seq.Ver  ETH ESF EDN EFF ERP Tot  Description
--- -------- --- --- --- --- --- ---- -----------
955 p2588.16 13  13  0   0   2   28   pancam_cape_verde_maio_L234567Rall

It's a "single" shot covering only the fov seen on the little thumbnails.
This pancam shot taken on sol 953 covers almost the same area.