First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
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First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
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Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#2This panorama mosaic was made of 130 images of 144 by 144 pixels each. Selected full frames from this panorama, which are 1,200 by 1,200 pixels each, are expected to be transmitted to Earth later.
Despite the 2mp sensor limitation, this project is already yielding some fine imagery. I just hope people don't complain about it being a bit samey after a while.
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#3Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the real sites, from NASA[1]? The sources are clearly provided, but the blog doesn't bother to link to the actual, full-resolution picture page[2], which provides full-resolution JPG or TIFF and additional information, in any way. I'm as interested in the mission as any other self-respecting hacker, but I'm tired of having to click through every time to get to the actual site. Considering the actual site contains real details and real pictures, from the horses mouth, as it were, it seems like we should all be making an effort to link to NASA whenever possible.
[1] - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4372
[2] - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16029
Edit: if the blog, in question, has real value to add to what NASA is supplying then, by all means, link to it. But for cases like this where the link doesn't really provide anything additional and leaves out important links like those to the NASA Photojournal page, it'd be better (IMHO) to link directly to the NASA page.
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#4A guy at FARK took the publically released "self-portrait" of Curiosity and "stitched" it together to correct it. I am not sure what he did, but it looks hugely better.
Original: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675130main_image_2331_946...
Fixed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgabryelski/7747623468/size...
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#5A guy at FARK took the publically released "self-portrait" of Curiosity and "stitched" it together to correct it. I am not sure what he did, but it looks hugely better. Original: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675130main_image_2331_946... Fixed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgabryelski/7747623468/size...
Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images.
Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#6This panorama mosaic was made of 130 images of 144 by 144 pixels each. Selected full frames from this panorama, which are 1,200 by 1,200 pixels each, are expected to be transmitted to Earth later. Despite the 2mp sensor limitation, this project is already yielding some fine imagery. I just hope people don't complain about it being a bit samey after a while.
> I just hope people don't complain about it being a bit samey after a while.
Hopefully Curiosity will find some cool stuff once she starts ambling around.
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#7A guy at FARK took the publically released "self-portrait" of Curiosity and "stitched" it together to correct it. I am not sure what he did, but it looks hugely better. Original: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675130main_image_2331_946... Fixed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgabryelski/7747623468/size...
Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images. Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!
That's a possibility. The FARK thread is here http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-... and you're correct, he doesn't say that's the original (and it does explain some of the differences between the two) but he does call the first one: "what the common folk got to see". Regarding the stitching, when asked, he said it was a friend's proprietary software....
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#8A guy at FARK took the publically released "self-portrait" of Curiosity and "stitched" it together to correct it. I am not sure what he did, but it looks hugely better. Original: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675130main_image_2331_946... Fixed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgabryelski/7747623468/size...
Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images. Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!
Do you have a link to the tldr of the conference about the debris?
I'm curious if they think it's a problem.. ?
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#9Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the real sites, from NASA[1]? The sources are clearly provided, but the blog doesn't bother to link to the actual, full-resolution picture page[2], which provides full-resolution JPG or TIFF and additional information, in any way. I'm as interested in the mission…
They link to the photo journal at the bottom of the post as well as some other resources.
Re: First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images. Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!
That's a possibility. The FARK thread is here http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-... and you're correct, he doesn't say that's the original (and it does explain some of the differences between the two) but he does call the first one: "what the common folk got to see". Regarding the stitching, when asked, he said it was a friend's proprietary software....
...And @MarsCuriosity JUST tweeted NASA's version of the stitch:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16027.ht...
Looks like some different distortion correction, cropping, and levels correction was done between the two.