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

From: Mal Bishop <magbish3_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:01:17 -0400
Message-ID: <502E5CBD.9040801_at_lowcountry.com>

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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