Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
Anyone else see this? It's something white sitting between two rocks around mid-pic. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152932582005103set=a.498242950102 .395373.156382705102 Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Ron Baalke Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013 4:40 AM To: Meteorite Mailing List 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.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov 2013-205 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
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=10152932582005103set=a.498242950102 .395373.156382705102 Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Ron Baalke Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013 4:40 AM To: Meteorite Mailing List 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.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov 2013-205 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
Hello Jeff, Registration artifact. When one goes about putting these together, one would generally work in at least a 24bit if not a 32bit space with a transparent background. I sick a whole bunch of processing power on the problem with a neural network looking for features that match-up. Once those millions of points are selected (through many hours of training and then automated iteration), my image processing software then has to warp, bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate the individual frames, stitching them together into an image that looks attractive on a flat 2D screen. When that's done, it needs to then have the bit depth reduced for end user consumption. That involves getting rid of the transparent background and filling that space underneath with some color. I have a few tricks that NASA/JPL folks may not employ. One of them is filling the background with pure Red (255,0,0), then another with pure Green (0,0,255), then another with pure Blue (0,255,0). Those then go through another pre-processing step of overlaying those and checking for each color pure color. Any area that flags for two of the three is suspect. Small areas that don't precisely line-up like that get flagged for manual revision. That step allows me to pull them into an image editor and quickly pixel-hack them together in a convincing way (although not scientifically valuable). I suspect they skip that step entirely and just fill the background with white and post it. Even with the current state-of-the-art, any time you have motion you have registration issues that can't be gracefully resolved. Mine show those artifacts around the rover itself, especially in the shadows. Creating panoramas from so many frames of a sphere and then unwrapping the sphere into 2D isn't an exact science. Plenty of room for discovery there. --- Jodie Thursday, June 20, 2013, 2:15:39 AM, you wrote: Anyone else see this? It's something white sitting between two rocks around mid-pic. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152932582005103set=a.498242950102 .395373.156382705102 Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Ron Baalke Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013 4:40 AM To: Meteorite Mailing List 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
Beer can tab. Ted On 6/20/13 8:40 AM, Jodie Reynolds wrote: Hello Jeff, Registration artifact. When one goes about putting these together, one would generally work in at least a 24bit if not a 32bit space with a transparent background. I sick a whole bunch of processing power on the problem with a neural network looking for features that match-up. Once those millions of points are selected (through many hours of training and then automated iteration), my image processing software then has to warp, bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate the individual frames, stitching them together into an image that looks attractive on a flat 2D screen. When that's done, it needs to then have the bit depth reduced for end user consumption. That involves getting rid of the transparent background and filling that space underneath with some color. I have a few tricks that NASA/JPL folks may not employ. One of them is filling the background with pure Red (255,0,0), then another with pure Green (0,0,255), then another with pure Blue (0,255,0). Those then go through another pre-processing step of overlaying those and checking for each color pure color. Any area that flags for two of the three is suspect. Small areas that don't precisely line-up like that get flagged for manual revision. That step allows me to pull them into an image editor and quickly pixel-hack them together in a convincing way (although not scientifically valuable). I suspect they skip that step entirely and just fill the background with white and post it. Even with the current state-of-the-art, any time you have motion you have registration issues that can't be gracefully resolved. Mine show those artifacts around the rover itself, especially in the shadows. Creating panoramas from so many frames of a sphere and then unwrapping the sphere into 2D isn't an exact science. Plenty of room for discovery there. --- Jodie Thursday, June 20, 2013, 2:15:39 AM, you wrote: Anyone else see this? It's something white sitting between two rocks around mid-pic. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152932582005103set=a.498242950102 .395373.156382705102 Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Ron Baalke Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013 4:40 AM To: Meteorite Mailing List 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
Heh Heh! Guido -Original Message- From: Ted Bunch tbe...@cableone.net Sent: Jun 20, 2013 12:27 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover Beer can tab. Ted On 6/20/13 8:40 AM, Jodie Reynolds wrote: Hello Jeff, Registration artifact. When one goes about putting these together, one would generally work in at least a 24bit if not a 32bit space with a transparent background. I sick a whole bunch of processing power on the problem with a neural network looking for features that match-up. Once those millions of points are selected (through many hours of training and then automated iteration), my image processing software then has to warp, bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate the individual frames, stitching them together into an image that looks attractive on a flat 2D screen. When that's done, it needs to then have the bit depth reduced for end user consumption. That involves getting rid of the transparent background and filling that space underneath with some color. I have a few tricks that NASA/JPL folks may not employ. One of them is filling the background with pure Red (255,0,0), then another with pure Green (0,0,255), then another with pure Blue (0,255,0). Those then go through another pre-processing step of overlaying those and checking for each color pure color. Any area that flags for two of the three is suspect. Small areas that don't precisely line-up like that get flagged for manual revision. That step allows me to pull them into an image editor and quickly pixel-hack them together in a convincing way (although not scientifically valuable). I suspect they skip that step entirely and just fill the background with white and post it. Even with the current state-of-the-art, any time you have motion you have registration issues that can't be gracefully resolved. Mine show those artifacts around the rover itself, especially in the shadows. Creating panoramas from so many frames of a sphere and then unwrapping the sphere into 2D isn't an exact science. Plenty of room for discovery there. --- Jodie Thursday, June 20, 2013, 2:15:39 AM, you wrote: Anyone else see this? It's something white sitting between two rocks around mid-pic. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152932582005103set=a.498242950102 .395373.156382705102 Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Ron Baalke Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013 4:40 AM To: Meteorite Mailing List 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
[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.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov 2013-205 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
I'm still stinging from JPL omitting one of the full-frame images from the initial series. Repeated requests to add it to the raw media directory were promptly and courteously ignored in the order they were received. I know it exists, because it exists in their own Pano. My software stitching is substantially better than theirs, and I spent a boatload of time on that series before realizing that they'd withheld one frame. Still irritates me enough that I'm just ignoring the entire mission now. ;-) --- Jodie Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 11:39:35 AM, you wrote: 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.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov 2013-205 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- Best regards, Jodiemailto:spacero...@spaceballoon.org __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
