Martian Vistas

While working on handling the first soil sample at Rocknest, Curiosity took this Mastcam 100 panorama of the 'High Thermal Inertia' unit near Glenelg.

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There is a lot more of this pan still to be sent from the rover but the view of the distant hills on the far horizon is too incredible not to post.

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A Mastcam 100 mosaic looking a Glenelg. The three rock types that meet at this site are the foreground, the bedrock left/middle distance and the more distant terrain.

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Oppy's current rock of interest 'Whitewater Lake'. The Azilda2 target that she has been looking, brushing and grinding is towards the upper right.

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Recently Opportunity has come across a fascinating outcrop on the Cape York feature on the rim of Endeavour crater. As she used her IDD (arm) to analyse a target known as 'Kirkwood' the surrounding outcrops were imaged in this pancam mosaic. Oppy then drove to the large flatish rock in the upper left of this image ('Whitewater Lake') to examine that.

Differing parts of this image were taken under very different lighting conditions making a perfect match impossible.

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On sol 19 Curiosity took her first large panorama with the zoomed mastcam camera. The images were returned from Mars uncompressed which is a problem for us amateur image processors as the jpg compression used when posting these to the raw image site corrupts the raw Bayer pattern. I have used a variety of techniques to try at rectify this, however there are still many artefacts and a greenish cast to sections of the image caused by this.

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On sol 13 Curiosity took a few more images to add the peak of Mt Sharp/ Aeolis Mons into the initial panorama from Bradbury Landing. Here is my attempt to add these images and to extend the sky to make the composition a bit better.

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And here is a crop with slight enhancement of just the mountain (Mt Sharp or Aeolis Mons). A sight to behold!

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All the images from the first Mastcam panorama are on the ground. here is a stitch of them all.

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The first 360 degree colour panorama from Curiosity is nearly complete. There are just two frames missing and my panorama stitcher freaked out a bit and left a horizontal line in the foreground, I'll fix this and add some final touches when the final two images are available (and maybe the top of Mt Sharp/Aeolis Mons will be imaged too!)

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Polar Projection

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On sol 3 Curiosity tested out her wide angle mastcam camera by taking a 360 degree colour mosaic of the surroundings. Not all the images from this are avaiable yet so there are gaps which I will fill in when possible. This was primarily a test that I could work with mastcam images.

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