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[Nix]

Do we know what Image data Curiosity will be attempting to upload on the next flyover pass? More hazcams only, or do weexpect to have the mast up and taking pics and ready to send?

in 1 or 2 days?

[Eluchil]

There is a low bandwidth ODY pass that will happen in about 10 minutes that may have a couple new HazCams. Does anyone know when the first MARDI images are expected to be downlinked? I saw that 18 had been assigned a (relatively) high priority, but the JPL Ustream was just saying that the current pass would have only a HazCam or two.

[charleski]

The full EDL data is only going to come down in a few weeks, but since I'm impatient, I decided to try to map the field of view shown in the MARDI thumbnails to the underlying Martian terrain. This is very, very rough and there are numerous problems with it, but I suppose someone might find it mildly interesting.

The thumbnails were obtained from the raw images section of the NASA-JPL site and have not been corrected either for distortion or projection. Looking back I suppose I could have tried to split out the video that was released with distortion-corrected frames, though those would have additional compression artifacts.

There's a lot of jitter in the frames. At one point I tried to smooth out the movement of features, but this just resulted in ugly systematic errors creeping in, so I decided it was more honest to leave the jitter as an expression of the uncertainty involved.

This mapping shows the field of view of the camera, so cannot be directly related to the vehicle's position without the IMU data and some of the movement seen will be the result of attitude adjustments. We can clearly see the final stage of Wrist Control Mode (the large turn made in the beginning). The movement to the east at 1:00 might be related to backshell separation, and I think the divert manouevre probably starts at 1:15. I'm not sure what caused the final movement beginning around 1:38, possibly an attitude adjustment. This, of course, is all speculation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUGUBzEO5Q