I've been talking with Mark Lemmon about rover imaging of planetary targets, and he shared with me a list of the observations made by Spirit and Opportunity over the years. Some of these may already have been posted on this forum, but not with image data from the PDS. Would anyone here be interested in digging into the archival data on the analyst's notebook and producing pretty versions of some of these observations? I can help with locating and downloading data if you need it. Here is the list:
Sol A/1998: Earth? & Deimos? Pancam with Navcam context that includes horizon. http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?sol=1998&cat=PROD&m=MERA
Sols A/1943-1949: Earth (marginal) and Venus, with horizon & Navcam. These include "pre-point" images (p2736) in addition to the observations (p2737). Data taken sol http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&sol=1943&cat=PROD, http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&cat=PROD&sol=1944, http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&cat=PROD&sol=1945. In next ones, observation seq id is p2739: http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&cat=PROD&sol=1946, http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&cat=PROD&sol=1947, http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&cat=PROD&sol=1948. Now it's seq id p2741: http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&cat=PROD&sol=1949.
Sol A/63: (already publicly released). http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?sol=0063&cat=PROD&m=MERA
Sol B/718: Earth & Jupiter rise movie, also Venus in a single frame at the end, Navcam context. Yes, three planets in a single observation. http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?sol=0718&cat=PROD&m=MERB.
Sol B/687: Earth, Jupiter, & clouds. Again, not sure of the sequence ID on http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?sol=0687&cat=PROD&m=MERB.
Some of these may have been processed well and put up on the Pancam Page...
http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_instrument/projects_2.html
http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_instrument/projects_3.html
Re: the unknown sequences
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/00718/1P191899681RAD64KWP2733L1C1.html
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/image/00687/1P189147530RAD64KCP2731L1C1.html
I think Jim ran out of grad students
I will do more of Emily's request later, but here is the Sol-718 Jupiter/Earth rise image with the movie sequence using PDS images.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/12454708083/
Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/12454708083/sizes/o/in/photostream/
EDIT: Starry Night View:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/12455560803/
The Movie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/12455054504/sizes/o/in/photostream/
James, I was hoping you'd work on these. Really lovely work.
Here is the MER-A Sol-1946 Pancam sequence of Earth and Venus. I couldn't pull out Venus in the PDS images, and most likely wasn't detectable.
https://flic.kr/p/o51B1s
Flickr is undergoing yet another annoying layout change, here is the original resolution.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/43581439@N08/14485232646/sizes/l
Venus should be the bright, easily visible speck in those images. Earth is considerably fainter, to the right of Venus. I was able to pull Earth out of the 1946 (and several adjacent sols) pancams - check out http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=6042&view=findpost&p=142925, and read back for more about that very cool set of sequences.
Hmmm...You are right! Thanks you for pointing that out, rechecked starry night and you are correct. I'll get that fixed. Its interesting that I couldn't pull anything else out. I'll have to re-check that again to.
EDIT I know what I did wrong in the ID, pointing was slightly off. That put Venus on the left. I Didn't check the distances and magnitudes. Venus was 1.06 AU from Mars, and Earth was 1.916 AU away.
I think that stacking the frames for each sol was crucial in pulling out Earth from the noise. Let us know if you find magnitude estimates for the two planets - I'm curious how bright they'd look by eye.
Starry Night shows an apparent magnitude of Earth -2.23 and Venus -3.83 at the time of that specific observation on Sol-1946, I have wondered before how accurately Starry Night is with that. Of coarse dust in the atmosphere and scattering would affect whats visible from the surface.
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