Hi Count, Mal and All,
If you click on the very small icon in lower right corner of image, it will
take you to what appears to be the, or another, company that sells software
to create this All-Direction visual tour.
Here is the link: http://www.360pano.eu/
Here is the link to the product on that site:
http://www.edss.ee/qtvr_panoramas_eng.html
Some pretty sweet technology there!
Best Regards,
Greg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Count Deiro
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:38 PM
To: Mal Bishop
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Impressive Viewer Interactive HD Curiosity
Camera.
Hi Mal and interested Listees.
The geometry that results from the position of this articulated camera, high
on a shaft above a central portion of the rover, precludes being able to see
directly down. It does give an amazing uncluttered 360 degree view of the
surroundings and mega-zoom and macro capabilities to the operators at JPL.
The landing area is naturally nearly flat with little rock, or rill. There
is visible at four points around the rover, about four yards out, scarafied
areas where the blast from the terminal descent (crane)retros blasted away
the rock and sand. Look and you will see the shallow ray like areas that I'm
talking about.
They did get more sand and pebbles on Curiosity than i thought they would. I
thought that they had figured away to avoid doing that, but apparently not.
I hope some little frag doesn't screw up an experiment.
I'm kind of proud that my name is on Curiosity with thousands of others who
contributed to it's realization. Got a nice little plaque to hang on the
wall.
Best to all,
Count Deiro
IMCA
-----Original Message-----
From: Mal Bishop <[email protected]>
Sent: Aug 17, 2012 8:01 AM
To: Count Deiro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Impressive Viewer Interactive HD Curiosity
Camera.
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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