[X] My Assistant

[jmknapp]

I've been playing with the NAIF SPICE kernels for Phoenix. These can be used to among other things determine where the instruments are pointing to at a given time. Here are some results looking at where the SSI camera has been pointing for the first few sols:



It looks like so far they been using the SSI around 10-12pm UTC every day. The code to generate the plots samples the pointing info every ten seconds. Here are some detail views of each period of activity. It's kinda fun to try to figure out what their objective is in each run:











Kind of artistic, some of them.

The left eye shows much less activity--maybe it's only used for stereo imaging.

PS Sorry for all the large images--I don't know how to scale them down more.

[djellison]

Well - you pulled that data into an XLS didn't you - they look like Excel '07 graphs. The XLS would do fine. I THINK ( but I'm not sure ) that 3ds max can import text (which I could make from the XLS) to do animation - if not I could animate it by hand fairly easily. The one that starts 27.8280 would be a nice start - it's 144 seconds worth I think. I could do it at 5x or 10x speed to show the bobbing camera motion for taking mosaics. I'll need to make a model of the SSI to start with though

Doug

[jmknapp]

Well - you pulled that data into an XLS didn't you - they look like Excel '07 graphs. The XLS would do fine. I THINK ( but I'm not sure ) that 3ds max can import text (which I could make from the XLS) to do animation - if not I could animate it by hand fairly easily. The one that starts 27.8280 would be a nice start - it's 144 seconds worth I think. I could do it at 5x or 10x speed to show the bobbing camera motion for taking mosaics. I'll need to make a model of the SSI to start with though

Doug

OK, here's a comma-delimited file:

SSI Right Eye CSV 5/26-5/29

That's an animation I'd like to see!