Leaving Victoria crater Options

[mhoward]

Since we're talking movies, I took a look to see whether MMB's movie-generation facilities still work. Somewhat to my surprise, they still do. Here then is a reprojected version of the Exit movie (Quicktime 1.8MB)

Sometime if I have time I'll do an extended version; there's a whole string of great navigation sequences leading up to 'the big one' here.

[jekbradbury]

An improved and slower version of the egress movie:

Large (231 Mb, 1024x1024)
Medium (60 Mb, 512x512)
Small (16 Mb, 256x256)

[jekbradbury]

Wow! MMB is so powerful. How come this capability doesn't exist in the production version?

[mhoward]

It does. I'd love to see you combine MMB's reprojected frames with your morphing technique. That might be pretty awesome actually.

I'll go through the images and adjust the brightness on some of them so that they match a bit better in MMB.

[mhoward]

Here's a dramatically lit Quicktime VR view from Sol 1632, just before she left the crater. Zoom out and pan down for the neatest view...

[CosmicRocker]

And BTW, sorry for the mistakes or the strange spelling, I'm french

Welcome to the forum. You will not need to worry too much about spelling or grammar here. Your English is better than some native speakers who frequent the place. It's always good to welcome a new member. I think there are many links to interesting movies embedded within the comments in the threads here, but they can be difficult to find.

Since we're talking movies...

That was pretty nice, mhoward.

[mhoward]

For people who want to download a larger version: Large version of the Victoria Crater Exit movie (QuickTime 11MB). This one's sized for my own 1680x1050 display. Please download the smaller version (1.8 MB) if you're just browsing.

[climber]

And BTW, sorry for the mistakes or the strange spelling, I'm french

Bienvenu leFab!
Some discutions are not so easy to follow sometimes but the pictures and movies are
"Trouble" with the rovers is that there is nearly 5 years worths of pictures & data here.
Nous sommes quelque fidèles ici: Ant, VikingMars, Rakir et j'en oublie...

[jekbradbury]

I applied the morphing technique to mhoward's reprojected movie, as he suggested:

Large (30 Mb)
Medium (9 Mb)
Small (3 Mb)

I actually prefer the nonprojected version since the whole point is to show the rover's motion, and reprojecting the frames evens this motion out and makes it seem as if the rover is driving in a parking lot. However, since the navcam is pointable, reprojecting the frames allows for a change in pointing without a jumpy video. This combined with the ability of MMB to export a video which itself changes pointing could create some great clips.

[Astro0]

Since we're talking exiting VC...
Some may think this is an exercise in futility, but does this sunlit angle of Duck Bay show Oppy's tracks.
Real or imagined? Whatdoyouthink!?

It's a lovely image in any case - Oppy's home for the past year.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

What are these parts visible in the recent Oppy panoramas:
I guess these are attachment point for the solar panels when these were folded? Official denomination?
Didn’t find it here: http://hobbiton.thisside.net/rovermanual/
Nor on the NASA websites … so where else to turn

[djellison]

Which bit of it? There's solar array mounting pyros on the left, solar cells alongt he middle, and the shoulder of the IDD on the right.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Solar Array Pyro on the left , thanks Doug!

[djellison]

Yeah - pyro-bolts that held the arrays together before deployment.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

So concluding this topic, we can say that Opportunity:
came out of Victoria Crater on Thursday 28th August 08 (sol 1634)
left Victoria Crater on Friday 17th October 08 (sol 1683)