And another mastcam that reminds me of the SW:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u.../right_top.jpg
The mosaics are too big for my photobucket, so need to wait for the press release versions.
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And another mastcam that reminds me of the SW:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u.../right_top.jpg
The mosaics are too big for my photobucket, so need to wait for the press release versions.
Cows have overgrazed those hillsides.
Weren't the Germans part of the camera team?Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
^^^ No non US people on the MMM team, maybe on the project.
Mastcam 34 of the Mahli:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u...l_of_mahli.jpg
The arm seems to be working well. I uploaded a sequence to image the mastcams with the mahli last night, the mahli cover is still closed, so might be a little hazy.
WALL-E!
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u...mer/wall_e.jpg
^this is with the cover still closed. Plan to take cover open photos soon.
Looks kind of nekid there with no dust covers or mud flaps. At least you can check the blinker fluid with out getting out of the vehicle. Sort of expected to see Red Bull or Tampax ads on there. :wink:
Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
Correction, 6 low :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckerman
This just came in. Taken with mahli with the cover open, Mt Sharp in the back ground:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u...summer/6x6.jpg
love it!
Thanks for sharing!
I took a photo to make sure Wall-E has change for a nickel:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u...e_4_nickel.jpg
This thread kicks ass! Is there a way to view these photos via photobucket. I would love to show them to my 6yo, but would prefer to not introduce him to the forum :D
cheers
Thanks. Check out http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
So, these pics, that are crisper than I take in my back yard.
Are
From
Mars
that's pretty cool
Fly over of JPL:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/u...psfde3e6de.jpg
JPL photo:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/shutt...combo2-640.jpg
Flag taken with mahli:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...004R0_DXXX.jpg
and plaque:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...002R0_DXXX.jpg
and this one you can see the mardi camera:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...000R0_DXXX.jpg
All three of these images are actually several images taken at different focus settings and then merged on the camera computer to create a best focus image. So things from 30 cm to the ground are all in focus. No color enhancement or ground processing, this is the product from Mars.
Taken with our camera on the arm, mahli, these are the thumbnails. Full frames are arriving next few days.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/7...121101-946.jpg
Bummer the general public's excitement fads so fast because its still FKNA.
Selfie on timer?Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
Nah, I think this guy:Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDaddy
Attachment 124484
got it for them..
Full size version, open image in new tab, click to zoom in. Looks best on 2 30" displays or more. Mosaic of 55 images. Note the scope sites:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/7...21101_full.jpg
Are the color chips on that calibration target bright colors on earth and are subdued because of Mars lighting, or are they supposed to look that way?
Dayuuummm! The full-size is awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
I think you may be right... I mean, anyone else notice the footprints to the left? WTF????!Quote:
Originally Posted by grskier
mind blowing shots here..
bump for the big news
Is the big news that we drove after sitting for so long?
Or the dust storm?
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multime.../?ImageID=4892
Had to work over thanksgiving, but got some cool photos, open in new tab and click for full size:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16453.jpg
Very cool. Really appreciate you posting these pics!
..thought I was bumping this in the padded room (but this thread is cooler than the one there)...these shots never get old..amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
are you kept in any kind of loop regarding discoveries?
This thread kicks so much ass...
Yes, but also signed a non-disclosure. Not that they keep any big secrets, they just want to release exciting news in a controlled way.Quote:
Originally Posted by EarlyWood
Regarding Grotzinger's NPR interview:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-n...2282/#50002282
id-Day ou-Yay ind-Fay ife-Lay?
-indecipherably coded message :fmicon:
Seriously love your updates 406, they are shared and appreciated by many.
^^^nope, something like that they would get out asap with every news outlet as it would be a great way to get more funding for Mars programs/JPL :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathVan
Quote:
MEDIA ADVISORY: 2012-377a Nov. 29, 2012
UPDATE SET IN SAN FRANCISCO ABOUT CURIOSITY MARS ROVER
PASADENA, Calif. -- The next news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect. The news conference will be an update about first use of the rover's full array of analytical instruments to investigate a drift of sandy soil. One class of substances Curiosity is checking for is organic compounds -- carbon-containing chemicals that can be ingredients for life. At this point in the mission, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics.
Martian organics, great name for a band...
awesome photos!!!
This one is from space, showing the impact scars where the tungsten ballast blocks and the broken-apart cruise stage hit Mars. The grey scale is from our camera on MRO, called CTX. The color swaths are from U of AZ's camera on MRO, called Hirise.:
open in new tab and click to zoom Note: image is 50MB:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images...M-2H-scale.jpg
The tungsten blocks are blue?
the color from hirise is not exactly what you would see in person, but covers specific wavelengths. I think it is more blue than what you would see. But the blue-ish material is the ejecta from the newly formed craters:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images...29245_1755.jpg
ejecta? So Mars is blue under the surface? :scratchinghead:
Curiosity track lulz
http://postmediacanadadotcom.files.w...0&h=272&crop=1
Well played
Stoked we took the photos that are this weeks cover of Science!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/34.../F1.medium.gifQuote:
COVER: NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, at its Rocknest sample-collection site, Gale crater, Mars, on 31 October 2012. This is a mosaic of 59 images acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, a camera mounted at the end of Curiosity's robotic arm (both partly not visible during imaging and cropped out during processing). Four scoop troughs are shown; a fifth was created after the mosaic was obtained. The width of each rover wheel is 40 cm. See page 1475. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
Cool video that we took last month:
oooh that's cool
Part of the MHLI ( arm camera) calibration target, taken yesterday from ~2 cm away:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...000C0_DXXX.jpg
(open in new tab for full size)