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[Julius]

It was mentioned that we could encounter different rock types as early as Santa MARIA!! I'm assuming they must have some data from orbit to have mentioned that possibility!

[Stu]

Wow... who would have thought that humble little Intrepid would have given us all such a photogenic viewpoint! The hills just look incredible from here...

[NW71]

Judging from Maxell's comments, we won't be staying at Intrepid:

That was undoubtedly the plan. However, he's just updated his twitter site. No driving until Wednesday now.

Neil

[Tesheiner]

Not really. Whenever he talks about driving it means drive planning.
Opportunity should have already left the vicinity of Intrepid by this time but the images are still on the queue.

[vikingmars]

No driving until Wednesday now. Neil

I'm now dreaming of 2 pics at Intrepid Crater :
- a low sun panoramic picture with long shadows on the rocks and dunes ;
- sunset and dusk pictures with the Sun setting behind the hills...

[djellison]

The hills are to the east.

The sun sets in the west.

[vikingmars]

The hills are to the east. The sun sets in the west.

OOOOPs ! You're right, of course :
Must be read then "- sunrise and early morning pictures"

[Pertinax]

I'm also monitoring the northern tip of Endeavour crater (see mosaic hereabove) since its 1st sightings on Sols 790 and 804 and traced back to Sol 774....

Hi Vikingmars,

For the sake of trivia and pride, I think the first sighting was about a week before on sol 782, again noting the sol 774 image. I've been fond of keeping an eye on those distant peaks as well, even though I lost track of them for a little while. Bill's animation from a little while back was fun in reviewing our view from then 'till now.

Also, not quite the low sun vista you were opining for there was a nice sunset sequence (pancam_twilight_L7R4) taken on sol 2411 starting just before 17:41 LTST, which lasted through just after 18:07, with the sun sinking from ~5 degrees above the horizon, to ~2 degrees below it. I think I'll try and animate it later today, though I really look forward to seeing the calibrated version.


-- Pertinax

[vikingmars]

Hi Vikingmars, For the sake of trivia and pride, I think the first sighting was about a week before on sol 782 .../... Also, not quite the low sun vista you were opining for there was a nice sunset sequence .../... -- Pertinax

Great Pertinax : you beat me with your Sol 782 pic ! When I traced back from Sol 790, I did not see this one...
Now, I can barely see it even a little earlier on a Navcam pic on Sol 765... (herebelow with PhilOvision)

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...YQP0695L0M1.JPG
Thanks also for the sunset pics link. My dream would be also to have a much larger pan taken with a grazing Sun. I really look forward to see your animation

[Pertinax]

Nice catch on the sol 765 view! I'd looked over the preceding sols data a few times back in 2006 and again just a few months ago. I'd never stretched them though. Again, nice!

I'm with you on the wish for both the low sun angle pans. I think one of the best and dramatic panoramas taken by either rover was Spirit's low sun angle pan at Low Ridge.

I played with the sunset images with the following result:

 merb2411ss_interp_sm.avi ( 330.54K ) Number of downloads: 450

[also posted at at Youtube here]

Images used are from the L7 filter. Interpolated video converts the original images taken every 75 seconds to sequence with a frame every two seconds at 30 fps, resulting in one second of video equaling one minute on mars -- that is if I didn't do something stupid!

I have the full sized version if anyone wants.


-- Pertinax

[jamescanvin]

My version of the Intrepid Crater mosaic.



James

[peter59]

My version of the Intrepid Crater mosaic.

Excellent as always!

[vikingmars]

I played with the sunset images with the following result:
I have the full sized version if anyone wants. -- Pertinax

I could not believe my eyes : so smoothly done !
As if we were witnessing a sunset on Mars !
GREEEEAAAT job, Pertinax !!!

[vikingmars]

I'm with you on the wish for both the low sun angle pans. I think one of the best and dramatic panoramas taken by either rover was Spirit's low sun angle pan at Low Ridge. -- Pertinax

Yes ! You are absolutely right about the dramatic feelings of low-sun angle pans on Mars. Herebelow was my Sol 813 interpretation for Spirit. Just imagine the same kind of illumination on Meridiani !
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=52380

[djellison]

We had exactly that back when there was plenty of time and power and little to do, late into the hiatus at the Olympia outcrop during the IDD trouble.