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[CosmicRocker]

I am trying to quantify Spirit's final resting orientation, but I would generally like to learn how to determine the orientation of either rover for any particular sol. I'm sure this data is in the MMB files somewhere, but I haven't been able to identify it. Likewise, I am sure it is somewhere in the Analyst's Notebook database and/or the Pancam data tracking database, but again, I can't find it.

Spirit's final orientation is the main thing I am looking for, but any orientation assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[CosmicRocker]

Aside from simply wanting to know what Spirit's final orientation is, I started working on this project because I wanted to be able to insert a rover model into the virtual 3D space of Google Mars. Ultimately, I wanted to be able to generate Google Mars anaglyphs similar to the ones I posted for Opportunity's route to Endeavour almost a year ago. Because Google has a high resolution DEM of Spirit's Inner Valley location, I thought it would be interesting to try some close up views of the terrain with a model of Spirit in context. Ultimately, I would like to create an image in tribute to Spirit's historic mission. But, I need to work the bugs out of the process, first.

To give you an idea of what I am talking about, here are a couple of preliminary images. The model in these images is using the orientation angles that James posted above, so you can see how they look next to Home Plate.

First, here is a screenshot of a scene from Google Mars.


This is synthesized anaglyph view of Spirit's final location.