MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 Options

[Floyd]

Re: Glenelg, Scotland astro event

How I would love to come to Glenelg. I have also always wanted to visit the neighboring Isle of Skye, do a little hiking and have a glass of Talisker at the source. On my list of things I must do...

[ronald]

Anyone know why the mastcam images taken with the colored filters, such as the latest from sol 60 (e.g. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...0000I1_DXXX.jpg ) are small thumbnails only? I don't think any have been full frame to date.

I might be totally wrong, but some filtered images come down as greyscale images (4 to 6 mostly):

Sol48 and Sol48

Quick link for the filters

Edit - Maybe better example:
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

and thumbnails (in colour):
1 / 2 / 3 / 4

[kenny]

Re: Glenelg, Scotland astro event

How I would love to come to Glenelg. I have also always wanted to visit the neighboring Isle of Skye, do a little hiking and have a glass of Talisker at the source.

If you make it along, I will buy you a glass of smokey T at the Glenelg Inn overlooking the misty Isle...and we can discuss the Martian Glenelg...

[fredk]

Anyone know why the mastcam images taken with the colored filters... are small thumbnails only?

Ronald is correct - check out this post.

Remember the MER shadow puppet shows? Looks like Currie can put on a show too:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...FHAZ00311M_.JPG

[eoincampbell]

Kenny, wish I could be there, especially for the Martian ceilidh band

[kenny]

Their rhythms are off-beat and somewhat alien, yet insistent and compelling, perhaps even entrancing.... with a Gaelic name like yours, Eoin, you will be missed...

[Stu]

Interesting. There's a JPL YouTube film of dust in Curiosity's scoop being shaken and vibrated...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V10goCmY2FQ&feature=plcp

...but no pictures yet..

[Ant103]

Maybe it's a movie made on-board the rover. But this will be surprising regarding the size of the data to transmit.

[elakdawalla]

No, it's just that Malin is holding some (usually the juiciest) Mastcam images for 24 hours before release, unlike Edgett who's letting MAHLI images go out pretty much immediately. 24 hours is not too long for me to wait, but you can bet I'm checking the raws page pretty frequently right now

[fredk]

No obvious sign of dust being carried away by wind. It would be nice to do some careful frame subtraction (Spirit DD movie style) to look for subtle signs.

[mcaplinger]

...Mastcam images for 24 hours before release...

Are any of the Mastcam images being released in less than 24 hours? (Not counting press release images.)

[EdTruthan]

No, it's just that Malin is holding some (usually the juiciest) Mastcam images for 24 hours before release....

You could take as Malin's indirect complement to this forum. If that series had come down today, one of us (I know I'd be all over it in a second) would have had that film rendered in about 5 minutes. Can't blame him for wanting to be the first, it's his baby. Hope we get more of these of films!

[elakdawalla]

Are any of the Mastcam images being released in less than 24 hours? (Not counting press release images.)

Actually, I don't know -- I thought thumbnails were, but I haven't paid close enough attention. My post originally didn't include the "some" bit but I wasn't sure if he was delaying all of them or not.

[stewjack]

I was referring to the small rise in the middle of the basin at the lower right there. I think (though I'm not 100 percent sure) that it's visible as the middle-distance plateau almost at eye level, just to the right of Dumgoyne. The northern 'shore' of the basin that you delineate is also in view to the left of Dumgoyne.

I am, as usual, uncertain what "small rise," you are referring to in the overhead view. I really can't see any small rise in a basin that looks like a plateau. However, I am fairly confident that I can identify what you describe as a "middle-distance plateau almost at eye level, just to the right of Dumgoyne" - in the Navcam view. My confidence is based on your description, as well as on my only seeing one feature that looks like a small plateau! I also think we agree on the identification of the northern shore of the basin. I would place that at about 450 -500 meters distant - if we are not both wrong.

[EdTruthan]

Are any of the Mastcam images being released in less than 24 hours? (Not counting press release images.)

Hmmm. Well, according to jmknapp's raw image browser, using the "sort by lag time" function the soonest any Mastcam image has ever come down (thumbnail or not) is 25 hours.... so there we are.