Martian Vistas

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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Opportunity spent the time around Curiosity's landing parked in a fracture like feature at the edge of Cape York known as Whim Creek. Here is a mosaic of the images taken of the feature while she was there.

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On sol 3 Curiosity took a spectacular colour mosaic using the Mastcam 34 colour camera. However this is made up of 130 tiny thumbnail images as the full resolution ones have not been sent from Mars yet. This means that the greyscale navcam panorama is of much higher resolution. HereI have tried to combine the two, using the colour information from Mastcam to colour the greyscale navcam images. It is difficult reproject these so they overlay accurately and I have't been entirely successful, however I think it gives a great impression of what is to come.

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Some more of the first navcam panorama has come down making a wonderful image of the rover sitting on the surface and also some great views over towards Mt Sharp/Aeolis Mons Curiosity's primary target.

Left Navcam

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Wow! The first navcam images from Curiosity are down after deploying the mast on sol 2. Here are the first two full resolution images joined together, showing the nearby terrain and the Gale crater rim mountains on the horizon. Unbelievable! On Mars, on Mars, on Mars.

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Now that the front hazcam image is down the two can be combined to form a rough and incomplete 360 degree panorama due to the very wide field of view of these cameras.

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