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

From: Dick Lipke <RICHARDLIPKE_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:05:38 +0000 (UTC)
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I assumed it was just a lost golf ball from a near by course.
Maybe not?

Richard Lipke
----- Original Message -----
> Anyone else see this? It's something white sitting between two rocks
> around
> mid-pic.
>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152932582005103&set=a.498242950102
> .395373.156382705102
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From
> Curiosity
> Rover
>
>
> 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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