[meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover

From: Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:43 -0700
Message-ID: <783667760.20130619121643_at_spaceballoon.org>

I'm still stinging from JPL omitting one of the full-frame images
from the initial series. Repeated requests to add it to the raw media
directory were promptly and courteously ignored in the order they were
received.

I know it exists, because it exists in their own Pano. My software
stitching is substantially better than theirs, and I spent a boatload
of time on that series before realizing that they'd withheld one
frame.

Still irritates me enough that I'm just ignoring the entire mission
now. ;-)

--- Jodie

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 11:39:35 AM, you wrote:


> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-205

> Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> June 19, 2013

> PASADENA, Calif. -- A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from
> NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine
> one part of the Red Planet in great detail.

> The first NASA-produced view from the surface of Mars larger than one
> billion pixels stitches together nearly 900 exposures taken by cameras
> onboard Curiosity and shows details of the landscape along the rover's
> route.

> The 1.3-billion-pixel image is available for perusal with pan and zoom
> tools at: http://mars.nasa.gov/bp1/ .

> The full-circle scene surrounds the site where Curiosity collected its
> first scoops of dusty sand at a windblown patch called "Rocknest," and
> extends to Mount Sharp on the horizon.

> "It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras'
> capabilities," said Bob Deen of the Multi-Mission Image Processing
> Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "You
> can see the context and also zoom in to see very fine details."

> Deen assembled the product using 850 frames from the telephoto camera of
> Curiosity's Mast Camera instrument, supplemented with 21 frames from the
> Mastcam's wider-angle camera and 25 black-and-white frames -- mostly of
> the rover itself -- from the Navigation Camera. The images were taken on
> several different Mars days between Oct. 5 and Nov. 16, 2012. Raw
> single-frame images received from Curiosity are promptly posted on a
> public website at: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ . Mars
> fans worldwide have used those images to assemble mosaic views,
> including at least one gigapixel scene.

> The new mosaic from NASA shows illumination effects from variations in
> the time of day for pieces of the mosaic. It also shows variations in
> the clarity of the atmosphere due to variable dustiness during the month
> while the images were acquired.

> NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project is using Curiosity and the
> rover's 10 science instruments to investigate the environmental history
> within Gale Crater, a location where the project has found that
> conditions were long ago favorable for microbial life.

> Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates Curiosity's
> Mastcam. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
> Pasadena, manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in
> Washington and built the Navigation Camera and the rover.

> More information about the mission is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/msl
> and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .

> You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:
> http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and
> http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

> For more information about the Multi-Mission Image Processing
> Laboratory, see: http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/mipex.html .

> Guy Webster 818-354-6278
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

> 2013-205

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-- 
Best regards,
 Jodie                            mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org

Received on Wed 19 Jun 2013 03:16:43 PM PDT