Now we finally have the original and unaltered raw data that is sent back from Mars in near real time!
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Thank you to @NASAJPL for fixing this issue! This change finally makes the raw images more useful to us hobbyists who can in return produce better images than ever before from this awesome mission!
Phil Stooke
Apr 28 2023, 11:38 PM
Steve's panorama for sol 770 in circular form, with a patch on one hilltop from the raw images.
Here's a look at Sol 775 with the link for a larger version. This has somewhat improved contrast thanks to the better preserved raw images. Now I can consider what additional steps can be taken to reduce seams with steps of brightness. Will be nice to see Phil's rendering as we continue to look into Belva after taking this very short step back to the SSW.
Sol 777 SuperCam remote micro-imager mosaic with four "marsonauts" for scale. The closest marsonaut is on the opposite (eastern) rim of Belva crater. The marsonaut behind him at the layered cliffs of Pinestand Mountain is about 600 m farther away. The fourth and smallest is on Santa Cruz hill and is almost invisible.
Sol 781 1. Focus stack of 31 images from the SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI) 2. Raw image from the SHERLOC WATSON camera 3. Combination of both: detail from 1, enhanced color from 2
Sol 782 SuperCam RMI image. This stone was captured once before with SuperCam RMI on Sol 774 from a slightly different angle. For context see post #805.
Thanks, Steve. Here is a circular version. It includes a small section patched from Paul's images where a seam truncated a rock, and part of a hill with a small bit missing which was patched using both Paul's images and a raw image to get the maximum possible coverage.
1. Focus stack of 9 images from the SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI) on sol 782 2. Raw image from the SHERLOC WATSON camera 3. Combination of both: detail from 1, enhanced color from 2
Very good! Some of these big blocks might be Belva crater ejecta rather than river-deposited boulders, so we could indeed say they were deposited by a very energetic event.
Phil
HSchirmer
May 13 2023, 02:35 PM
QUOTE (Phil Stooke)
Some of these big blocks might be Belva crater ejecta rather than river-deposited boulders, so we could indeed say they were deposited by a very energetic event.
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Looks like Boca Chica
Very interesting, ejecta erratics to explain the history of Mars! -grin- 'moral of the story' (according to Edgar Rice Burroughs and/or Freeman Dyson) - don't test your Orion at the planet surface.
Bill Harris
May 15 2023, 04:51 PM
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The latest abrasion patch seen in this Sol 788 WATSON Looks like a loosely cemented coarse material Click to view attachment
This image, and the ones posted by Tau, are clearly a coarse, poured-in sediment that is angular and poorly-sorted.
PaulH51
May 16 2023, 01:58 AM
A short drive on sol 793
The total traverse was ~21 meters, but the point-to-point distance was ~9.7 meters to the south-southeast.
Attached is one of the roughly processed 2x2 tiled NavCams (centered on the West) assembled in MS-ICE
This image, and the ones posted by Tau, are clearly a coarse, poured-in sediment that is angular and poorly-sorted.
Here they are with scale if you wanna measure the poorly-sorted sediment
serpens
May 16 2023, 11:48 PM
Poured in is a good way to frame this. The abrasion target would have formed from a mixture of debris flow and fallout of pulverised and fractured sedimentary material from the Belva impact. Possibly material from across much of the delta formation timeline.
This is a newer processing pipeline using a number of software and data elements. Here is an extended drive animation from Sol 394 to the present.
Phil Stooke
May 21 2023, 03:46 AM
Very nice, Steve. Here is a circular view. I fixed a seam near small ripples using Paul's images, but the more uniform colors were very easy to work with.
Nice to peer around and into Belva with your view, Phil! Below is Sol 795 with the link for a larger version. There is some low sun that adds some challenges.
Sol 795 was brutal. Steve said the lighting added some challenges and he was not kidding. But with some bits improved from Paul's original images here is a circular version.