Victoria Crater Panoramas, True Color of Victoria's Capes and Bays |
Victoria Crater Panoramas, True Color of Victoria's Capes and Bays |
Oct 3 2007, 10:44 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 468 Joined: 11-February 04 From: USA Member No.: 21 |
Victoria Crater Panoramas Here is a collection of calibrated color panoramas taken by Opportunity since arriving at Victoria Crater through the most recent PDS release, starting with Duck Bay and ending with the east face of Cabo Anonimo. The top of the page is a little javascript+imagemap that shows the rover location (thanks to Tesheiner's amazing route maps!) and viewing-cones of each pano (mousing over the rover location will bring up the cone and a preview image). I'll keep this updated as new PDS releases are made available. |
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Oct 3 2007, 11:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
WOW!! Those are amazing! Great job mosaicking those together!
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 4 2007, 12:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
excellent - thank you!
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Oct 4 2007, 12:32 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 1584 |
Marvellous. Great idea!
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Oct 4 2007, 12:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
These are just fantastic. I love the roll-over tool.
One issue, on the first two rollovers, Duck Bay and Cape Verde, the FOV shading is pointing backwards. EDIT: Never mind I was inverting the shading in my mind. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 4 2007, 12:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
One issue, on the first two rollevers, Duck Bay and Cape Verde, the FOV shading is pointing backwards. That's because they are very wide panoramas -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Oct 4 2007, 12:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Very nice useful tool, and of course the panoramas are fantastic.
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Oct 4 2007, 02:14 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
It's a way cool reference tool, and the panoramas are drop-dead gorgeous, not to mention, flawless.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Oct 4 2007, 02:46 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
BEYOND "wow", sir; truly incredible work!!! Invaluable for those (i.e., me) that are reference-point challenged.
Thanks, Slinted! This work is just nonpariel (hope to God I spelled that correctly) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Nov 10 2007, 04:08 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 468 Joined: 11-February 04 From: USA Member No.: 21 |
Victoria Crater Viewer Here's a belated thanks for the kind words and...an update! I've added the pans/mosaics through sol 1170 from the latest PDS release, bringing the total count up to 18 images. On top of the usual warnings about 'true color', I'll add that the sky is partially if not completely blown out to white in most of the later images. I was more concerned with getting the most out of the ground detail. Also, the sol 1104 pan was taken in L456, not the usual L257, so its colors don't closely match the rest. |
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Nov 11 2007, 09:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 17-July 07 From: Canberra Australia Member No.: 2865 |
Like what nprev said above.
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Nov 11 2007, 07:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 11-March 04 Member No.: 56 |
Did the recent dust storms change the structure of the crater-floor dunes at all? Or are they just the same?
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Jan 24 2011, 08:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
One of the most spectacular views ever seen from Opportunity during its mission was at the "Valley without Peril" point from Sols 1130 to 1132. When I saw the NavCam images, I knew there was really something there to work on... Because the rover Drivers focused more on the foreground than on the background features, the panorama could be made only by stitching manually some images taken from those 3-sol interval... Well, you can imagine why there was a concern here for the rover Drivers : Opportunity is so close to the edge that a bad command could have sent it tumbling down the slope... There was a lot of imaging work to do because of parallax issues and I left this work for later. Last week, I decided to process the images. Here is the result. Indeed a spectacular view. Enjoy !
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Jan 24 2011, 03:30 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10231 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Very spectacular! Maybe we should rename it 'Valley with Peril'. Excellent work.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 24 2011, 09:11 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 30-March 05 Member No.: 223 |
One of the most spectacular views ever seen from Opportunity during its mission was at the "Valley without Peril" ... What a phantastic view: Oppy at the edge of steep martian cliffs above bizarre waves of a lake of sand ... Another one for the MER panorama Hall of Fame, thank you |
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