[meteorite-list] Impressive Viewer Interactive HD Curiosity Camera.

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:38:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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Hi Mal and interested Listees.

The geometry that results from the position of this articulated camera, high on a shaft above a central portion of the rover, precludes being able to see directly down. It does give an amazing uncluttered 360 degree view of the surroundings and mega-zoom and macro capabilities to the operators at JPL.

The landing area is naturally nearly flat with little rock, or rill. There is visible at four points around the rover, about four yards out, scarafied areas where the blast from the terminal descent (crane)retros blasted away the rock and sand. Look and you will see the shallow ray like areas that I'm talking about.

They did get more sand and pebbles on Curiosity than i thought they would. I thought that they had figured away to avoid doing that, but apparently not. I hope some little frag doesn't screw up an experiment.

I'm kind of proud that my name is on Curiosity with thousands of others who contributed to it's realization. Got a nice little plaque to hang on the wall.

Best to all,

Count Deiro
IMCA

 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mal Bishop <magbish3 at lowcountry.com>
>Sent: Aug 17, 2012 8:01 AM
>To: Count Deiro <countdeiro at earthlink.net>
>Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Impressive Viewer Interactive HD Curiosity Camera.

>
>
>Hi Count,
>
>That is most impressive ...and much fun as well to pan left, right in
>360 as well as 180 up and down. Do you have a link back to JPL/NASA on
>the particulars of the imaging -- in other words, how it was actually
>pieced together, etc.
>I find it very interesting how you can see the shadow of the mast on the
>ground, but when you pan around on Curiosity itself there is no sign of
>the extended mast, nor even a sign of a point of origin from which the
>photos were taken.
>It is as if the point of origin for the photos were taken out away from
>the MSL -- a virtual point of origin I guess you could say? My simple
>mind would be very much interested in how this was constructed in the
>manner in which it was
>so excellently conceived and carried out. Maybe I'm really
>out-to-lunch, but I just see no signs of the mast, not even the base of
>it where it attaches to the rover. You can look straight down to where
>the mast should be and there is no sign
>of it -- just completely edited out. Something else, the crater floor
>is amazingly smooth, and boulder free just like you would expect from an
>impact result flattening the area inside (except for the central peak
>--rebound effect ) of an impact crater with
>all of the debris (large rocks, boulders, and dirt/soil that was
>excavated during impact ) to have been deposited out beyond the the
>crater floor at the crater rim and many miles beyond.
>
>Most wondrous!!!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mal
>
>
>On 8/17/2012 2:23 AM, Count Deiro wrote:
>> Hello Listees,
>>
>> Be able to interact with the HD image is as realistic as it gets. You ARE on mars and with the best images ever......http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
>> Count Deiro
>> IMCA 3536
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