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[elakdawalla]

And *most* of us here know to respect mission personnel's judgment when it comes to deciding how much to discuss. Pushing professionals to reveal more is short-sighted and counter-productive, because if they reveal more than they should they can be (and have been) told to shut up completely (or at least warned of dire consequences if they make a mistake again, which amounts to the same thing).

[Airbag]

Sol 166 NAVCAM Left view. This one went down kicking and screaming; tons of parallax with such close in images....

Airbag

[EdTruthan]

Here's a preliminary look at the very nice (and huge!) Sol 170 MC34 panorama. Interestingly, it seems the big 15 frame block that's missing at upper right seems to have been purposefully skipped, as the row sequence numbers do not show any numeric break across the 3 rows of the gap. This faces the low sun angle, so not sure if that was a consideration or not. The other two missing frames at right have thumbs down so presumably will be in soon, and there are two more missing frames that appear to extend the far upper right of the pan. There's a small stitching anomaly at the left flank and base of Mt.Sharp I'll try and fix in the final version. There's a ton of detail in here of areas not previously covered by the MC's on the flat of bay.

Click thumb for half resolution version (15000 x 4285 px - 9.24MB):


The original came in at just over 32,000 pixels so I reduced it to 30,000 for now to save the JPG easily after PS post-processing. Will render a full sized version when the missing frames are in. For now, the near full resolution version (30000 x 8569 px - 26.72MB - ZIP File) is here: Sol170-MC34-Mt.Sharp-Yellowknife-Panorama-30000x8569px.zip

[mcaplinger]

Interestingly, it seems the big 15 frame block that's missing at upper right seems to have been purposefully skipped...

The big block at the lower left also appears to have been purposefully skipped

Seriously, I don't know why they would skip a big area like that; perhaps it was covered by some earlier sequence or that's the divide between multiple sequences which will be filled in shortly?