'Curiosity' - NASA Mars Rover - Due to land 5th Aug 2012

[bob1179]

FurtiveFreddy said:

As you may have gathered, being an over-excited geek I can't wait for NASA to do their stuff, so I've taken some more raw images and stitched this together:

Fantastic work!

I can't wait to see some colour pictures.

I too am very excited by the whole thing!

[SkinnyBoy]

FurtiveFreddy said:

Well, no mention has been made of the cone-shaped object, so I'm assuming it is just a rock.

Until NASA release their panos, here's a stitch I've done of the two full-res navcam images we have so far:

The good news is the Mastcam is now deployed and everything is working as it should so we may see a high res panorama in a day or so from now.

Good work!

[FurtiveFreddy]

Bedazzled said:

That's great Freddy, your image stitches are better than the Nasa ones! The actual definition in the image is very good, even from the Navcams, which bodes well for the colour images we'll get from Mastcam.

I'm interested in the stereo capability, the red/green ones are ok but polarised versions would look great; I wonder if the navigation software makes use of stereo images to identify nearby obstacles...?

Well, with two cameras they can range-find at the very least but I'd be surprised if they haven't worked that into the navigation software. They've got a great landing site there and they've already established there are no obstacles around or beneath Curiosity, so they won't delay things when it's finally time for a little drive around to see what's what.

[FurtiveFreddy]

SkinnyBoy said:

Edited by FurtiveFreddy on Thursday 9th August 12:02

[mrmr96]

FurtiveFreddy said:

SkinnyBoy said:

[SkinnyBoy]

haha love your ET one Fred,

[mrmr96]

You guys know this isn't a photo shop thread?

[FurtiveFreddy]

[RegMolehusband]

Leave him alone - you carry on Freddy. Happily lurking in this thread.

[mrmr96]

FurtiveFreddy said:

Don't go! The stitching together stuff is ace. (The inserting of aliens though... not so much.)

[TheHeretic]

mrmr96 said:

"No-one could have believed in the early years of the 21st century that human affairs...."

[scubadude]

FurtiveFreddy said:

As you may have gathered, being an over-excited geek I can't wait for NASA to do their stuff, so I've taken some more raw images and stitched this together:

Nice work Fred, where are geting these pics from? (or did I miss the explanation?) NASA are only dripping them out slowly as far as I can find.

[Eric Mc]

NASA are releasing them pretty much as soon as they get them.

[McHaggis]

scubadude said:

Nice work Fred, where are geting these pics from? (or did I miss the explanation?) NASA are only dripping them out slowly as far as I can find.

He is there taking the photos. Interestingly the connection from Mars is more reliable, and faster than browsing PH from a mobile.

[FurtiveFreddy]

[FurtiveFreddy]

The raw images are available here as and when NASA decide to release them:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=2

So far, they have waited until after each mission update news briefing before uploading them to their website and any images requiring manipulation (like panos) take a bit longer, hence my impatient alter-ego doing the work as soon as full res raw images have been released.

The next news briefing will be broadcast on NASA TV live at 7pm UK time and I expect more images will be released then. These are pretty interesting broadcasts and the journalists actually ask quite intelligent questions sometimes (no-one's there from the Daily Mail AFAIK) so I'd recommend taking a look and in between Curiosity news they have other live events, such as the live broadcast from the ISS taking place now (all in Japanese though as it's for Japanese schoolkids).

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

[FurtiveFreddy]

First image from the Mastcam (made up of thumbnails as the full res frames will take some time to transmit to earth):

Edited by FurtiveFreddy on Thursday 9th August 18:30

[andyr30]

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

repost?

[TheHeretic]

Impressed that the transfer speed over 150 million miles is that high. 32 kb/s or there abouts.

[TheHeretic]

32kb/s or there abouts. Higher to the orbiting satellites, but the time for those are limited as far as I know.