Bahia Blanca, and the view from Cape Desire Options

[Tesheiner]

This is a 2x1 navcam mosaic of Bahia Blanca.



There are no images looking into the crater on this batch except for this rhazcam picture. In any case, I feel this place is perfect to take a whole 360º color panorama, perhaps one of those called "Mother of all Panoramas".
The view is breathtaking.

[mhoward]

I agree it would be great to have a full pan from this position. The Navcam view so far is great, abeit incomplete:



I doubt the full pan will happen, but maybe at least a full Navcam pan with some Pancam coverage?

[jamescanvin]

I doubt the full pan will happen,

So do I.

What I would be happy with is if the Bahia Blanca mosaic could be extended to the Soup Dragon. That would be a fabulous image with Hoy, all those big fallen rocks, the next few capes and the Dragon herself.

James

[nprev]

That Bahia shot is really breathtaking. Thanks, Tescheiner!

It also seems at first glance that Bahia may have undergone more pronounced aeolian erosion than other locales...maybe this is the prime 'wind tunnel' for the crater during the diurnal cycle?

[jamescanvin]

Here is a long baseline anaglyph from the navcams taken at the 1069 and 1071 positions.



And here is my version of the 1071 view of Bahia Blanca (full resolution)



James

[mhoward]

And here is my version of the 1071 view of Bahia Blanca (full resolution)

Wow, that is a really tempting chunk of rock down there.

[jamescanvin]

And for those of you that like mind bending super-long-baseline anaglyph's. Here is one using the images from 1067 and 1071.



James

[ngunn]

The full pan doubters may be right, but I still hope not. This is the perfect moment to create that image that space museum goers of the future will stand in the middle of awestruck. To a hard-nosed geologist it might seem like a superfluous 'touristic' gesture, but there is more to this great human adventure than just geology and other prizes to be won besides short term scientific gain.

[djellison]

I'm still waiting for that one navcam pan that makes me go "THAT...is the one"

I think it's a bit further yet - from a perspective that will show us our arrival point really clearly.

Doug

[Tesheiner]

Ok, a big 360º panorama is just my wish. I don't see (yet) any planned sequence to support it.
However, there is a nice 6x3 pancam mosaic of Bahia Blanca (aprox. 80º fov) taken at the previous site during sol 1070:

01070 p2359.09 18 0 0 18 1 37 pancam_long_baseline_6x3_part1_L2

So where is the "part2"? II believe the reason to move this couple of meters towards the tip was exactly to take the second shot.
Edited: Tosol (1072) plan doesn't include anything significant.
We'll see what we see.

I think it's a bit further yet - from a perspective that will show us our arrival point really clearly.

Mmm, we should move to cape D1 or further to see our arrival point. It's currently behind Cape Verde.

This post has been edited by Tesheiner: Jan 29 2007, 01:34 PM

[climber]

To a hard-nosed geologist it might seem like a superfluous 'touristic' gesture, but there is more to this great human adventure than just geology and other prizes to be won besides short term scientific gain.

I red last week that Mars used to be the "Astonom's" planet and it's now the "Geologist's" planet. I agree with you ngunn, let's have our part of dream back.

[ngunn]

I think it's a bit further yet - from a perspective that will show us our arrival point really clearly.

By the time we're far enough round to see into Duck Bay we'll be looking up at the opposite rim and all of that long view over the plain to the far hills may be lost. Cape Desire is unusually 'pointy', with clear views looking both up at the beacon ridge and down at - and beyond - the southern rim. That combination gives the eyes all the necessary cues to 'read' the crater's horizontal context as well as its relief. That is why I think this is the best place. If there were an artist on the team they would do it here!

[fredk]

Some info on the new driving techniques in the latest Oppy update:

...Opportunity began testing various techniques for visually determining the rover's precise location after moving across sandy, somewhat slippery terrain. Because the sandy surface is largely flat and featureless (except for the dropoff into "Victoria Crater"), the rover's primary reference points are the long rows of repeating ridges and holes in its own tracks. They all look pretty much the same, repeating the same pattern every 80 centimeters (2.6 feet). The rover is working on ways to make its tracks look different at every step, which will remove any ambiguities in the images of the tracks.

If you compare this hazcam view of the latest drive tracks with this older view, it looks like they are using some such technique.

"Somewhat slippery terrain" they say!

[Tesheiner]

So where is the "part2"? I believe the reason to move this couple of meters towards the tip was exactly to take the second shot.
Edited: Tosol (1072) plan doesn't include anything significant.
We'll see what we see.

Here it is, on the imaging plan for sol 1073:

01073 p2360.09 48 0 0 48 4 100 pancam_cabo_corrientes_pt2_L257R2

And we have the name for the cape hosting "Hoy": Cabo Corrientes.
Afaik, the earthly one is located in Argentina. Ustrax, do you have more info?

[ustrax]

And we have the name for the cape hosting "Hoy": Cabo Corrientes.
Afaik, the earthly one is located in Argentina. Ustrax, do you have more info?

Not much I'm affraid...
It's located in Mar del Plata and looks quite different now from the days Magellan visited it...