Remarkable! And the further she climbs...

That is sparkly clean. They did not start publishing the dust factors until around sol 1776 but I would assume that it would have only been a matter of a few sols after landing before the dust factor dropped below this level.

So still in Eagle crater? Ah, the memories.
Now the question of whether to credit this to the Martian atmosphere, the mission planners, the local geology (for being so enticing), or all three...

Here is a segment of the Pillinger Point pan.


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Thanks James for this beautiful mosaic! Now I have a new wallpaper

James, this is a beautiful result, knowing that the filters are aging and the original pics from which you worked are very saturated. Thanks again !

Just wow.

Thank you all for the comments!

Another segment.

The black rock at the bottom right of James' mosaic intrigues me. What could be its composition?

I'm at work right now, so away from my home computer, but if I recall in the false color images, it was a bluish color. Usually but not always blue roughly translates to a basaltic in origin in the false color images. I'll have to make a false color version. But making any sort of mineral composition judgement from the raws I don't really like to do.

Here is a false color of that rock, it's actually pretty dark which in my opinion also looks a bit interesting, not just this particular rock but this whole site.

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Really appreciate your treatments of the Pillinger Point views, thanks James...

Thank you

A screenshot of two of the 3 sections roughly positioned together in Photoshop before stitching together.

A screenshot of the false color version of this magnificent place

Sol 3671 - Brushing and MIs at Pillinger Point.

GIF animation:
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Hazcam and MI mosaic
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Another GIF animation (flicker):
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The Mi cam view on Sol 3671.

Jan van Driel

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James, please forgive me : I could not resist balancing back your wonderrful panorama into real Martian colors !
Thanks again so much for your nice work
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Good job! I don't mind at all, I'm just waiting for the rest of the images to arrive to complete it.

I suppose that Meridiani should be darker in colour but there certainly is a big difference the way MARS looks from pictures taken by Opportunity at Meridiani and Curiosity at Gale. I wonder how real that difference is!

I just want to say I'm not claiming of coarse that this is an accurate representation of the colors. For the Raw stretched JPG images, it's more of an art and a guessing game. There are several factors that contribute to the color difference, but I'd say roughly you should compare the colors of Gale with Spirit, or Mars Pathfinder landing sites. But I want to stress, use the calibrated PDS images if you want to do comparison work, not the raw images for MSL or MER.

Sol 3677 navcam pan:
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Moving away from the edge.

Sol 3678 navcam pan:
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This is a circular version of Charborob's new panorama. I fixed a few bad bits on the horizon - and missed one, I see now (Charborob, I think if you can get a tie point near the horizon in each seam you can avoid that step effect).

Anyhoo - this lets me identify the location accurately. Next week I will try to post a map of the activities in this area.

Phil

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My version. Opportunity Navcam Right · Sol 3678

Sorry about that. But I am making my panoramas using PhotoShop, and it stitches the images automatically without me having to specify tie points. On the other hand, sometimes I get those stitching errors.
I suppose I should be using Hugin or other stitching software for better results. I am making a trade-off between optimal results and rapidity. I tried Hugin, but it asks me for control points, and I don't have the time to specify a bunch of those. It seems a complicated process overall, and I can't invest the necessary time and effort.

OK! Sorry about that. I've never tried Photoshop for stitching.

Phil

Great stereo views from near the edge now available:
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Finally the last image came down just a little bit ago, now I present to you Pillinger Point and Endeavour Crater.


Gigapan Link
False Color:

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What an awe-inspiring view! Thanks for assembling it, James.

How nice ! Congratulations and thanks a lot James !

Awesone James! Amazing landscape and wonderful colors.
Now I have a new wallpaper for my monitor.
Congratulations.

The Navcam L0 view on Sol 3678.

Jan van Driel

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and the view on Sol 3684.

Jan van Driel

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AJS Rayl has provided another information packed summary for Opportunity.

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-top...ient-clays.html

Weird... the newest images include a target called Cape Upright... but the same name was used back on sol 3598.

Phil

A circular pan - made from Jan's latest panorama, sol 3684.

Phil

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and here is the Navcam L0 view on Sol 3691.

Jan van Driel

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Creeping along the top of the ridge! Here's a circular view of Jan's pan just above. By com paring these with HiRISE I am mapping out the route - I will post something on it next week.

Phil

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Thanks a lot Jan van Driel for this nice panorama and to Phil for the 360° "donut" pan : we have not yet arrived to the top of the 2nd summit, but are now definitely standing above the 1st summit !
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Sol 3696 navcam view:
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Nice! Here's a circular version of it which lets me find the location.

Phil

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Quick and dirty noise subtraction from two of the transparency test frames:
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I don't recognize the field. This could be done a lot better by looking at multiple frame combinations etc...

Assuming the vertical streaks to be mostly stars, here a try to remove some of the noise from FredK's diff:
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Edit: Tried to identify a couple of stars (mainly constellation Libra) :
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After more accurate combining of the three Sol 3697 nightshots:
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After registering the three (edit: cleaned) images, summing, and rotating 3.5 degrees, I've used a 7x5-linear kernel of (1,4,6,4,1)-rows to enhance vertical bright lines, cleaned from CRs by intesecting four vertically displaced copies (0,8,16,24 pixel displacement), halved brightness to - once again - apply the linear operator, and subtracted the brightness bias of the linear filter. Annotated the most evident stars.

The Navcam L0 view on Sol 3698.

Jan van Driel

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Great! Here's a circular reprojection of it to help locate the rover.

Phil

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The Navcam L0 panoramic view on Sol 3701.

Jan van Driel

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JPL released their version of the Pillinger Pan!

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mer/pia18393/#.U6onf7EuLSg

note: I noticed a reddish cast to the black background which I assume is a color correction after merging the pan onto the background. For my viewing I just set the black point to the black background and that fixed that.

Nice to see, but are they not going to complete the panorama?

Not from there, anyway - they've moved on. There are lots of partial panoramas in the collection.

Phil