Somebody suggested another UMSF BarBQ at Victoria... here you go...

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We could make this one a rock concert . . .

What we've so far:

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I guess we still miss one frame to join both sides of the panorma.

On the geology front, I was kinda disappointed that we're not going to Cabo Frio first, but if there are good rock exposures at Cape Verde, then by all means, let's go! It does look like a more treacherous drive, though.

From a photographic survey point of view, either cape is going to give us a kind of view that we aren't getting from sitting back in Duck Bay. Either one should be spectacular, and the closer we can get to the point of Cape Verde, the better.

One thine we should get from Cape Verde is a good profile of the Beacon cliff, top to bottom. With Beacon being the high point on the rim, the stratiography ought to be spectacular. It will be interesting to see how deep that cliff goes.

I wish I were there with my camera!

heheh, me too -set up the tripod and make some 60000x30000 pixel mosaics of each bay and each cliff up close

Nico

Yep - see here

Hello,
I would be waiting for a panoramic with authentic color like ones taken on McMurdo. It is matter of time! I believe Oppy in any moment is going to take a paramount picture of Victoria Crater, probably from the high promontory of Near Rim. So it is time to update your pictures at your best angles! for posting in the USMF Barbeque

Rodolfo

I'm glad I'm not the only one with problems with the anaglyphs. Coming up with the Mystery Men was a brilliant idea......Did we ever do one for the Everest panorama? Thanks Fred!!

By the way, Indian3000, the vertical projection you did......I was hoping to get the right image only so I can view the left-right pair using the parallel method. Where is the link to your latest version of the vertical/polar projection program?

Thanks,
Aldo.

Should we expect more images today? Is MRO still needing all the bandwidth?

Where MRO 'gets in the way' is on the way UP to mars - uplinking commands to the vehicle. However - Opportunity is not only on a different frequency to MRO ( unlike Spirit ) but the downlink, via UHF and Mars Odyssey, should be relatively unaffected.

There may be more images later, the pipline is unreliable from time to time - but otherwise it's usually 22 hrs between exploratorium 'updates', which last about 2 or 3 hours.

Doug

Me too... it was a joke

Sure! Here we go :
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no prob, I had not understood that like that

Left

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Right

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perhaps that one can make a group purchase for anaglyph glasses with the color/logo of UMSF.

for the moment not yet release for the CAHVOR vertical/spheric projection program (it"s a other module) , but in a few times when it is more stable…

Okay, these are completely bogus (distorted), but kind of fun:

Off toward Cape Verde tomorrosol (955).

Is there a place where all of this is explained ?

You left off this one

956 p1555.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 bitty_cloud_the_movie

It is evident that Oppy will go toward North side toward to Cabo Verde.

Rodolfo

I don't think there's one spot, but the Jim & Doug Show on January 31st has some discussion about the kinds of things you see in the tracking DB.

Now that summer's over and I have a little more spare time, I'll try to start transcribing some of the audio that hasn't been done yet...

There have also been a lot of tips mentioned in various messages interspersed among many of the MER topics here as others have asked or commented, but there is no consolidated place where you can find them, afaik. It might be useful for some motivated person to create a topic in the Tech, General and Imagery section for capturing such information, as there is for Autostitch. Anyway, with a little common sense, and after spending some time comparing pancam tracking data to images we receive, it will start to make some sense. I don't think anyone here had a cookbook to follow when this database was discovered.

I think it was more like, "Hmm, this looks interesting. Let's kick the tires, take a look under the hood, and take it for a spin around the block."

While we all wait for the first real big color pans ...
here a first color impression of the Cabo Verde view:
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edit: anyone placing Oppy on top of the cliff ? (Astro0 ?)

Thanks Nirgal.
I'm surprised nobody colored Cape Verde in the colour it deserves. I mean green from the one that doesn't understand spanish
May be Doug will make a lot of progress since he goes to Valencia

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Verde y good Nirgal

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: A View Worth Waiting For!

"Opportunity is healthy and sitting at the rim of "Victoria Crater"! After traveling 9,279.34 meters (5.77 miles) in 952 sols the team is rewarded by some of the most spectacular views seen on this mission."

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/sta...tml#opportunity



Something to read while we wait for Pancams.

... which have just gone up!

love the closer pics..Hate to be the one to choose where to go first

nice thing is they will only get better

Four frame color stitch:

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Wow that was fast!!!!

You've created a thing of beauty there, well done...

This is the best I could do in that time...

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The rest are down
Two frame mosaic of Cape Verde

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Four frames of Cape Verde:

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I LOVE this place!!!

Oh wow oh wow oh wow!!!

Nice touch brightening it to show the layers in the shaded section.

This is a wild beauty!

Here my improved (sharpened and hue-corrected) version:

Incredible. That's impressive detail work! I am looking beyond Cabo Verde to the cliff on the other side. That looks quite sheer and tall with an abundance of strata. My eye was caught by the thick layer about 6 feet below the top of the cliff which may have been contiguous with the bright horizontal striations we saw across the opposite rim. The details you've brought out really show off the beauty of those cliffs, and the edge of cabo verde. Thanks!

One of the things I'm seeing (especially in the brightened images) is the dark "sand" on the north side of the annulus. Something similar seems to be spilling into Victoria from the northern bays, also. It would be interesting to see what that is, and how it relates to the layers, breccia, and other ejecta.

And thanks everyone for the wonderful views!

Dr Schmitt examines the base of Cape Verdo ( in an alternate reality ):

The cliff behind the 'edge' of Cape Verde in this image looks like it has perhaps the tallest continguous sediment stack seen to date. Would be good to get closer and aim pancam and minites at it, even if the rover can't get near enough to use the IDD.

Ha ha! That Apollo 17 EVA suit seems way to cumbersome for beautiful Mars. Seems no where near as harsh as the world that Apollo went to visit. Go Oppy!

Apart the funny montage...
how did you obtain such incredibly sharp and natural view???

Dilo, I think Horton has Schmidt looking for more of the deep layer fossils that Stu has detected

Sol 951-952 Pancam 185x35 degree equirectangular projection, L257 false-color.

I'm late to the party...glad to have color a first attempt -cheating by using Endurance calibrated color as reference



Nico

Sorry, forgot the warning: Color by Horticolor -- Please do not adjust your monitor; the problem is reality itself.

I think the area *under* the impressively-layered vertical cliff may have exposed rock that is even deeper in the stack, and at least one part looks pretty accessible...

Edit: Here's what I mean. I could easily be wrong of course, especially from this range. I hope I don't just look foolish here.

Astonishing image...Though...
Does anyone get the name of that EXTRAORDINARY country correctly?!
Cabo Verde is the name of the place...Cabo Verdehttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_Verde!

I don't know why I didn't notice this before, but in Nico's color partial pan, you can clearly see a rocky depression sitting several meters *back* from the rim. It's not just a little hollow, it seems (from this angle) to be a pretty steep-sided little hole.

Impact crater? Or, perhaps, a drainage feature? I can picture a process in which materials slough off into Victoria, opening up drainage routes for fines and smaller bodies to be removed. Perhaps this depression is a sinkhole-type drainage feature and not an impact structure?

-the other Doug

Whatever it is, I think that's the feature they've been referring to as "Duck Crater."

Alan, DEChengst, Stu - now you have done it! After seeing those colourisations I now are forced to assemble my own swearbox! *clink*

Seriously, terrific work thanks go our to all of you!