Hi, Kevin,
Are you getting the images with their headers and labels?
I'm Googling here and it says that the "MER Camera 'Combined'
EDR/RDR PDS Label" contains Local_True_Solar_Time, or
LTST data, based on the sun's position in the sky in a 24 equal
hour system, same as the Mars clock.
See:
http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/Atlas/MER/documents/ops_edr_rdr_sis.pdf#search=%22mer%20local_true_solar_time%22
Is it the local Mars time for the pictures you want, or
the current local Mars time, like the MER Clock running
in your software?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Kevin Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>;
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Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:25 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mars software, clock maths HELP.
Hello people,
if you have an interest in the Mars Exploration Rovers, please have a look
at the Merdat software
screen shots.
Click the link below, then click the MERDAT link.
http://www.qsl.net/vk3ukf/
if you see an astronaut then my website is being nice,
if you see a blue sun, then click refresh or enter the URL
http://www.qsl.net/vk3ukf/ only, no
index.html on the end, for some reason you got the server cache, and an
old index page.
What do I need help with, the Mars clock in my software is plain old
daytime, not solar time as
displayed on the NASA website. I would like some help in translating the
algorithm for Mars solar
time into code so the program matches NASA.
Too much greek and triangles for me to understand, the calculation for
Mars24 can be found at
this URL.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/algorithm.html
I need someone to hold my hand here.
If there is anyone out there disciplined in mathematics, I'd love your
assistance.
I know Sterling K. Webb is good at this. Hi Sterling.
Please send general emails to the list, not me. Lest you end up in my JUNK
folder.
I am sending this email to two lists [email protected]
and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and fear I may be swamped, probably
not, but, just being
careful.
Email me personally if you want a copy of the beta software as it now
stands, ONLY if you think you can assist with the algorithm or feedback. I
need to have it viewed on screens with a resolution bigger than 1280 x
1024. (my monitor is 800 x 600 to 1280 x 1024) The software looks OK at
these resolutions.
I plan to include another zipped library of images apart from the two
below, I will make a best of collection at a later time.
The zip of MER images of the Martian moons taken at night, Night.zip, is
uploading now, please be patient. It'll be available in a few hours, yeh,
I'm dial up. Clouds.zip has been uploaded and is available.
Thanks folks.
(p.s. if something is broken in all this, do let me know, and I'll fix it)
Kevin Forbes, VK3UKF.
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