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Pictures never taken..., ... but you wish they had been... |
 Jan 5 2009, 07:49 AM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5548 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
Has anyone ever thought "Why didn't they take a picture of... xxx?" during the MER mission? One image that wasn't attempted - and it's always baffled me why not - was a shot Oppy's reflection in the backshell at Endurance. How cool a picture would that have been?! Maybe they didn't want to drive in amongst all those sprinngs and cogs and wreckage (fair enough) or maybe it just wouldn't have worked, technically... not a reflective enough surface or something, I dunno, I'm sure someone will give the specs... but I like to think it would have looked something like this...
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Jan 5 2009, 08:35 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
I know this was not feasible, and was considered to dangerious, but like Stu, I would have liked to see a 360 degree full color pan (including deck) over at Oppy's aeroshell and parachute. I just think that bright white chute, and that chared aeroshell would have looked so cool with a rover self portrait and Oppy's arm reached out at it
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Jan 5 2009, 09:55 AM
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 Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13272 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Backshell & Chute for me as well. It would have been a two week excursion JUST for pretty pictures (wouldn't get close enough to do the analysis we had at the heatshield)
The self portait would have struggled - I might be able to fudge a simultion from the MER model and the terrain wedge of Navcams from there. Doug |
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Jan 5 2009, 09:58 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5548 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 5 2009, 09:55 AM)  The self portait would have struggled - I might be able to fudge a simultion from the MER model and the terrain wedge of Navcams from there. Now that's something I'd love to see! -------------------- |
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Jan 5 2009, 10:03 AM
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Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13272 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Try shaving, using kitchen foil as a mirror
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Jan 5 2009, 11:24 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5548 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 5 2009, 10:03 AM) Try shaving, using kitchen foil as a mirror Point taken, but still think it would have been a cool photo. Even if it was just a blurrysmudgeysomething it would have been quite inspiring, I think.
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Jan 5 2009, 05:12 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1260 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
We will have to satisfy ourselves with this "shaving mirror" self portrait:
And rovers and parachutes don't mix - cool as it would be to see, it could end in tears. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jan 5 2009, 05:17 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1972 Joined: 28-December 04 Member No.: 132 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 5 2009, 04:55 AM) The self (portrait) would have struggled - I might be able to fudge a (simulation)... Don't know if you noticed that Stu's image is a self portrait simulation. The MER body looks good to me but the mast looks too solid and clear. |
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Jan 5 2009, 05:57 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5548 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Jan 5 2009, 05:17 PM) The MER body looks good to me but the mast looks too solid and clear. Everyone's a critic... Just a bit of fun, anyway. Guess I'll just have to make do with MSL taking Oppy's photo when the two meet sometime in 2010...  -------------------- |
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Jan 5 2009, 07:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 5 2009, 05:57 PM) Everyone's a critic... Just a bit of fun, anyway. Guess I'll just have to make do with MSL taking Oppy's photo when the two meet sometime in 2010... With the way the MERs are soldiering on, they may someday get to take portraits of each other!
-------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Jan 5 2009, 08:12 PM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4490 |
I thought we were going to get Oppy to film MSL`s EDL..
Another catagory could be "Pictures made and then lost" - for example, didn`t Galileo have to ditch a whole Io flyby recording for some reason? (I could be wrong) |
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Jan 6 2009, 07:41 AM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 96 Joined: 20-September 06 From: Hanoi, Vietnam Member No.: 1164 |
In my craziest dream, I want to see Oppy (since she's closer to the North) travels all the way to Phoenix lander the next Martian spring and wakes it up
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Jan 6 2009, 06:27 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3119 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I sort of wish that Spirit had navigated around to the other side of Bonneville and taken some closer-range images of her own heat shield where it augered into the side wall of the crater. I understand that the crater is just an impact hole into the thicker-than-anticipated lava cap over Gusev's floor, and there was nothing mineralogical of interest in the newly disturbed crater wall, but it would have been an impressive set of pictures.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jan 6 2009, 09:14 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Here's an interesting challenge to Astro0's Photoshop skills: "Thu's Dream"
The haunting image of Oppy giving CPR to a frosty Phoenix! 
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Jan 6 2009, 09:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1972 Joined: 28-December 04 Member No.: 132 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 6 2009, 01:27 PM) I sort of wish that Spirit had navigated around to the other side of Bonneville and taken some closer-range images of her own heat shield... But we had to hurry up and try to get to the Columbia Hills before Spirit died. It would have been great to have a small camera on the landing platform to image the rover as it first investigated nearby targets and then receded into the distance on its long journey. (I know, a wasteful indulgence.) |
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