"Deliberately buried?...."


(I'll also raise a glass to Stanley K. for the outstanding visuals.)

There's a nice view on Sol 1160, taken at about 3:15 pm local Mars time. It's a bit difficult to compensate for the glare, though.

Shaka: Good catch, but weren't there supposed to be apes wielding jawbones, or at least some angry algae in that image?
mhoward: That view caught my eyes, too. Wasn't that a rather smooth, inverse "S" drive?

The events at the Meridiani Monolith were judged "too melodramatic", and ended on the cutting room floor.
This maneuver is just early training for the Duck Bay Giant Slalom.

Sorry, but that was an image too good to miss.
A little creative licence.
Enjoy

Astro0
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"My God! It's full of Fines".

"As you can see, Dr. Floyd, MMA-1 is very well depicted in these magnetometer graphs. In fact, that's how we found the damned thing."

"Deliberately buried, eh?"



-the other Doug

Thanks for finding the greater part of the quotation. All I could remember was the "deliberately buried" part.

Well, from the latest update

When are they going to try the RAT on it?

Long baseline stereo view looking across CSV, Corrientes + Hoy, and Desire from sols 1155 and 1157. I love these long baseline views of distant capes.
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That's one of the best yet.

Here is a panoramic view of Victoria Crater

taken with the L2 Pancam on Sol 1163.

jvandriel

Here's a new little Opportunity drive movie from sol 1129 to 1137. (Quicktime, 4.4Mb)

(It's a bit bouncy in spots, I know.)

That's a stunning piece of work, mhoward! You've got the distant features rock steady and level. Was that done automatically based on the rover orientation data or did you line things up and rotate the images by hand?

Thanks, fredk. It's based on the rover orientation data. The movies are actually just a series of screenshots from MMB2.0's panorama feature. There's an earlier movie that was posted to the MMB topic. And off topic for an Opportunity thread: I don't know if I ever posted this Spirit Sol 716-732 drive movie.

Great works! Additionally I love the fact it is in QT format, so you can "drive" backward and forward, in different speed, as many you like (by using the arrow keys). Very nice feeling!

Here is a Panoramic view from a small crater taken on Sol 1160

with the L2 Pancam.

jvandriel

Wow. Time to look at your new version, I guess! What amazes me is how rock steady the horizon is from frame to frame. I guess the drift that they correct for with the solar imaging happens pretty slowly, since they know accurately where they're pointing during these shorter drive segments. This is a beautiful illustration of what incredible pieces of work these rovers are!