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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....

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[Phil Stooke]

Earlier I posted a comment about the brushing - saying it looked like there was a second DRT on sol 170 after the main one on sol 169. That was based on a partial MAHLI view which showed a change between sols. The newest MAHLI images suggest there was no brush on sol 170, but that loose dust was moved, maybe by a gust of wind. Dust piled around the edge of the brushed area and ouitside it was removed, and some piled up in a line across the DRT patch. Was that wind or something else? Related to the overnight drill test?

EDIT - I may have the answer already - comparing 169 and 173 MAHLI images, I see that there is a pattern of ChemCam dots in the brushed area (but outside the 170 MAHLI image). Presumably that blew the dust around a bit.

Phil

[Airbag]

A whole bunch of full size sol 172 Mastcam-100 images were posted more than half an hour ago and I don't see a panorama yet???



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[EdTruthan]

A whole bunch of full size sol 172 Mastcam-100 images were posted more than half an hour ago and I don't see a panorama yet???

Yes, we're sorry for the delay! Had to grab some breakfast and well you know... that other morning stuff. Here's the Sol 172 pano in all its hi-res MC100 (spot-free) glory. The small missing block at bottom, like the Sol 170 pano seems to have been purposefully not imaged as the sequence numbers skip right across the gap. The tracks left from the trip to Costello and back between Sols 127 to 132 are visible at upper right along with some of the damage done to rocks along the way, including one reasonably good sized slab at far right center that seems to have fractured right across the middle (lower right of this frame).

Click thumb for half sized version (11425 x 2246 - 5.17MB):


Full resolution version is here in a 16.67MB Zip: Sol172-MC100-North-Looking-Foreground-22850x4491px.zip

Edit: Judging by the thumbnails down so far this pano series appears to have at least an additional 36 frames not yet down - AND - an entire set of dedicated MC34's to boot for ananglyphing.