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Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by 360pano »

nkoren wrote: post #47
360pano wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nkoren: you are very careful ;) Thanks for the comment, but I really did not have source materials to recreate this mountain

Yeah, I know the material is missing. Sorry if that came off critical of you -- your panorama is really truly gorgeous! I'm honestly feeling a bit petulant towards NASA for failing to include the mountain in their initial panoramas[1] -- they've missed 80% of the drama in that landscape! When they finally get around to imaging the mountain properly, I hope you patch that back into your panorama, because that'll be st…

nkoren: no prob, you are welcome!

and thank you for comments!

Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by elliottcarlson »

pyre wrote: post #34
biesnecker wrote: post #4

A high-res panorama of Mars, taken by a semi-autonomous robot that was landed via rocket sky crane, transmitted 14 light minutes across space, then transmitted on demand through a global information network to my computer. And people say the future isn't what it was made out to be.

No one said that the future isn't amazing (or maybe they did), but the "future" imagined in the 1960s is mostly still science fiction. Where is my flying car? Where is my robot personal assistant? Where is my food replicator? Where is my day trip to the moon? Where is my space colony on Mars? Just sayin'. :P

And yet two posts away is: http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/technology/view/202...

Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by OhArgh »

nikic wrote: post #15
Synthetase wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's definitely the MMRTG or its nuclear battery. My guess would be the Department of Energy doesn't want too much about it floating around.

What are the reasons for hiding it?

It's odd. I just looked at it again and now the square is gone. Maybe as suggested it was a rendering issue and it was just a coincidence that its was over the battery.

Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by whileonebegin »

mojuba wrote: post #30
jan_g wrote: post #9

Absolutely great stuff. I wonder if images were processed in any way (besides stitching) or is Martian landscape/atmosphere really so bright-yellowish. I found it much easier to use navigation keys instead of click+drag (which web page suggests).

If you point at the NASA logo on the rover you will see how big the color shift is. It's supposed to be blue but it's yellow and red. Whether it's the lighting on Mars, or the camera, or post-processing to blame for this - I have no idea, but the picture doesn't look like it reflects the reality from the human eye's perspective.

Here is the original panorama image http://goo.gl/8a41M I think this is original color.

Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by vecinu »

ricardobeat wrote: post #16
checker wrote: post #12

This image reminds me of starting in the morning: sun's up, there's plenty to do, let's get started. On another note, I would love to hear the sound of whatever Martian breeze is blowing while Curiosity's wheels crunch over the gravel.

There is hardly anything to hear since the atmosphere is so thin.

This is not true. There was a post in another topic that had a citation...there are a lot of sand storms on Mars and there is actually sound, it is just attenuated.

Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by opminion »

biesnecker wrote: post #4

A high-res panorama of Mars, taken by a semi-autonomous robot that was landed via rocket sky crane, transmitted 14 light minutes across space, then transmitted on demand through a global information network to my computer. And people say the future isn't what it was made out to be.

And it you watch it in your iPad 2, you will be holding the viewport in your hands.

Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

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Post by noonespecial »

mmcnickle wrote: post #52

I love seeing these pictures showing all the dust and dirt sitting on top of the rover, knowing the years that it sat spotless in a cleanroom[1]. It's like unpacking a toy and actually getting to play with it. [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Mars_%27C...

True that. It's so visceral and so real that for a moment I worried about what would happen to all of those connectors and wires when it rained. Then, "oh. Mars. Right."
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