Thanks Steve.

Mawrth Vallis Crater

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I also updated the Arabia Terra clip, now longer with better bitrate.

Tooting Crater

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Kaiser Crater

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HiRISin' 2

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Sean, these vids are gorgeous! Thanks for posting

Thanks brellis.

Hale Crater

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Updated this with better bitrate, textures & atmospheric scattering

Jezero

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data by HiRISE, HRSC & CTX

Updated with better bitrate, masking & dropped the awful sepia tint.

Eagle crater in color (at last)! So much dust covering the lander, it's almost poignant... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2017/04/21

Hale Gullies

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Bamberg

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Updated this to 4k with better texture, higher bitrate, extended path & atmospheric scattering.

Vera

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Music by Andreas Vollenweider

Flying over Vera Rubin Ridge & lower Mt Sharp.

Here is a 686 Megapixel portrait of Kaiser Crater...



...and a 4k wallpaper.

Mojave Crater 4k...



...and a 4k 60fps flyby

Some synthetic RGB work...

Very nice, I really like the haze effect on the distant objects.

Another pass at Mojave, this time using Curiosity mosaic color info to influence the synthetic rgb texture...



[ 20 Megapixel ]

and a postcard...

Here is one of Sean's images on display at LPSC on Monday morning.

Phil

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Thanks for this Phil...do you mind if I share it on that thing called social media?

Yes, use it any way you like!

Phil

Some updates...

A new Jezero flyby made with CTX & MARCI


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Gale crater color study made with HRSC & MARCI...




Lots of wrinkles to iron out of this workflow still...

Now make a simulated landing video in Jezero crater

Gorgonum Chaos...made with synthetic rgb mapped to HiRISE rgb




40 megapixel...


Details...




Flyby animation...


4k60 version on Youtube

Great job Sean! Thanx

Gorgonum Chaos 2...a lower flyby with synthetic color pass derived from HiRISE rgb, extended sky & horizon.


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Just fantastic as always from you.


I used to look at these scenes and think - look what water has done. But because of Oppy I think - look at what fault control has done.


Long live Oppy!

New pass on 3xDTM Domoni Crater...


Full 980 megapixel version on Gigapan




Full 980 megapixel version on Gigapan

HiRISE RGB mapped to synthetic color [ for the color version ] & lots of remixing & repairs in Photoshop

Ceti Mensa


HiRISE RGB mapped to synthetic color

4k version on Youtube

Great work, Sean, as always.

I'm happy to see my HiWish fulfulled, it being some impressive dark sand dunes in Melas Chasma.

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The proper page for it at HiRISE website will be up in August, but I did get the images at a preliminary stage:

Standard map projected images (RDR):
http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/RDR/...SP_055322_1680/

Extras (RDR):
http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTR...SP_055322_1680/

The two dunes are about 1 to 1.5 km wide and 5 to 6 km long.

These dunes are so large, they have dunes of their own:

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Any ideas as to how such big dunes got there, in that part of Valles Marineris?

The IRB image looks so cool!

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Oblique view from Google Earth:

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P.S. When we do get the stereo pair, could somebody please make a 3D model based on that and make a cool flyover video?

This is mostly on topic, does anyone know what science observations MRO is taking during the dust storm? Specifically, HiRISE imaging would seem to be a waste of precious downlink volume. Are other instruments being used more?

Thanks. I'm not sure what criteria is used to determine which stereo pairs are converted to dtm's. I do know that only a small fraction of stereo pairs have been converted and that the computation required to do so is intensive.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/20180613/Zurek-3-16.jpg
There seem to be some observations of wind movement with HiRISE, but the other instruments (CTX, CRISM, MCS, and Marci) are contributing to observations in other ways.

Another portrait of one of the mounds in Ganges Chasma...

Ganges Mensa


4k version on Youtube & Vimeo

Glacier


4k version on Youtube & Vimeo



Glacier portrait

Columbus


4k version on Youtube & Vimeo

HiRISE

Sean, at this rate someone will need to rename the header "AMAZING IMAGES" from "interesting images!"

Sean, with the discussion on Arsia Mons, is there DTM data? Could you do a flyby, esp. of the SW flank where the clouds seem to be starting? Thanks!

Sadly there's no HiRISE DTM's of the area.

Some HRSC Images do though.... -

http://viewer.mars.asu.edu/planetview/inst...000_DT4&T=2

There may be others according to HRSC View.

It might be a while before I can look at that area, any decision to render will depend on data coverage/quality & aesthetic.

Zephyria region...



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A flyby of polygonal ridges in the Syrtis region.


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Congratulations Seán! And many thanks for taking this topic.
I posted pointers to the video on the Zooniverse PlatetFour:Ridges project's chat.
I expect volunteers to be ecstatic, as I am. It is so much nicer to see them with perspective!
Fernando

While working on classifying subsets of CTX images on the PlanetFour:Terrains and PlanetFour:Ridges projects on Zooniverse, I often need to visualize the full CTX or search for nearby CTX or HiRISE images.

That used to be easy using the image explorer from ASU. Having loaded the reference CTX with the image explorer, I just clicked the "View this image in context on an interactive map" button. Sadly this capability seems to no longer be working for CTX and HiRISE images, despite still being available for THEMIS.

Does anyone know what happened or how to bypass an eventual problem? Thanks
Fernando
Update: the capability has been restored. Thanks are due to those making it happen!

Thanks Fernando, here is Ius Chasma...


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It seems that the correction to MRO CTX Viewer problems I mentioned in Post #142 did not catch everything.
The "View this image in the context of an interactive map" button now works almost perfectly. It does open a map, but it is centered on the wrong coordinates.
For instance, for image F13_041029_0968_XN_83S057W the map opens centered on 83.3º N / 302.5º E. North when it should have been South.
The absolute value of the latitude is used to position the map.
It would seem the code is parsing the image ID but fails to take the N or S indication into consideration.
Perhaps some viewer of this forum knows someone able to fix it? Thanks.

Fernando

Perhaps this is related to the direction in which the HiRISE strip is captured? Some have North up and some South up. That information is present in the .LBL file. I don't think it is possible to determine it from the file name.

Paolo

Thank you Paolo. I am aware of this "image flip", I believe it is not it. I really do not know what is causing it, but several of the PlanetFour:Terrains project's volunteers (myself included) are heavy users of the viewer. It is quite handy to view the CTX in context in order to find near ones and overlaps. The CTXs used by the project are from the south pole area, so we were surprised to be taken to the north polar area!
Fernando

Testing some new rgb / synthetic rgb blends...

Medusa Fossae


For the 3D texture I target HiRISE rgb and build out a synthetic rgb map then blend in Photoshop.

Medusa Fossae Bullseye


rgb / synthetic rgb

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3D Flyby of the Grand Canyon on MT Sharp in false colour.

Best viewed on a 4K TV: Youtube4k



HiRISE DTM used: https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=PSP_006855_1750

Full 33 minute version in 4k on Youtube

Here is a link to the trailer