Detailed Panorama of Mars Released 92
dptalia writes "NASA has just released a detailed panorama of Mars taken by the Spirit rover. During the short Martian winter the rover didn't get enough sunlight to move, so it took these pictures instead. Spirit took over 1400 pictures, for a total of 500 megs of data. If you look to the left of the picture, you'll see the tracks from the rover's trip."
'Detailed Panorama'? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:'Detailed Panorama'? (Score:5, Informative)
Normal Colour Small [nasa.gov], Medium [nasa.gov], Omg [nasa.gov].
False Colour Small [nasa.gov], Medium [nasa.gov], Omg [nasa.gov].
Red / Blue 3D Small [nasa.gov], Medium [nasa.gov], Omg [nasa.gov].
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Awesome.
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I'll see your OMG... (Score:5, Informative)
Also, this isn't the final image; just a preview in honor of Spirit's 1000th sol. Another panorama picture will be released that includes the rover deck.
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Interactive view (Score:1, Interesting)
Interactive McMurdo Panorama, Winter on Mars [fotoausflug.de]
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If I were standing on Mars in my natty Gucci space suit, which has a CLEAR visor. Is the Normal or the False Colour image the vista I'd see?
ie. is Mars really red?
-Jar.
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Re:'Detailed Panorama'? (Score:5, Informative)
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The problem is not "what color would enter my eyes?" but instead "what color would my brain register?"
The color calibration target that is on the corner of the rover (designed by a group including Bill Nye the Science Guy, if I recall) helps the scientists recreate the colors that entered the camera lens accurately, or to recreate the colors of the materials when ignoring the differences in Martian lighting conditions. But if you were standing there on Mars looking at all this stuff for a while, you'd probably have a different impression. Your eyes would "get used to" the color shifts and start remapping things to perceive them without the shift.
In cameras, this is called "white balance." The white target should look white, right? Well, anyone who has used their digital cameras to take pictures of a white birthday cake lit by candles, or a white wall in a room lit dimly with low-wattage incandescent bulbs has seen that white objects appear amber to the camera. Sometimes seriously orange. Forest shots look much more green/blue than you remember them. Many digicams have automatic white-balancing software, and they automatically shift the RGB colors until the average over the whole scene is neutral.
Your eyes would get a really reddish scene on Mars. Just like that automatic white-balance setting on your camera, your brain would get used to the reddish glow, until the white spot on the color target looked mostly white or subtly blushed instead of a ruddy red color.
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Not quite. From a NASA story about the image [nasa.gov]:
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Again, the issue is not "what wavelength is red" since that's simple to calibrate before launch time. Once a camera is able to accurately model a given shade as white or red or purple or chartreuse, the camera will continue to model that color pretty consistently until the electronics fail.
The problem is not the hardware but in deciding what to perceive.
Color is a combination of the incoming light, the surface characteristics, and the sensor's biases. We adjust our biases to counteract changes in the
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That might be so, but such is rather subjective because different people's brains will calibrate differently. I imagine the result would be something like a cross between the "natural" image and the color-enhenced one.
nice.. (Score:1)
I clicked OMG, and firefox prompty ate all my free memory then froze my computer. I just lost half an our worth of code.
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Or the W Katrina Planning group: "Drive-By Committe"
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Did something happen to one of them?
Can you hear that? (Score:5, Funny)
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I'm the only who thought, "SOLs?... sh1t outta luck?..."
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Then when one thinks about it, MY tax dollars paid for this picture. Paid a lot. Why should some private journalistic enterprise be charging me for premium content for a link to this photo or video?
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
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That's what SETI's At Home software is for.
And to give it that 1950's feel, "So THAT'S what a Hollywood set looks like!"
Slashdot (in)effect (Score:3, Insightful)
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Circle work? (Score:1)
Yes (Score:2)
Reminds me about our local TV news showing the recent orbiter pic of Victoria Crater and zooming in until a black dot appeared near the rim, while totally omitting to mention that the black dot was a rover (Opportunity)
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From "The Onion": (Score:4, Funny)
How sad! We should send some humans there to play with it.
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all a matter of perspective (Score:5, Funny)
You look at them as "tracks from the rover's trip."
The martian people look at them as "evidence leading to the invading probe from earth."
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Raw Pictures (Score:3, Informative)
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Sneaker Footprint? (Score:1)
TTYL
And on to the right... (Score:1)
I am VERY worried (Score:3, Funny)
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Nothing new here (Score:5, Informative)
Optimus (Score:2)
Those look like transformer tracks to me.
To the /.ers who work at google : (Score:1)
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Lies! Damned Lies! (Score:1)
Really? (Score:1)
Google Mars? (Score:2)
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Oh, you mean this [google.com]? The least you could do is provide a link....
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Is it just me??? (Score:3, Funny)
WOW, on the far right side (Score:2)
Moo (Score:1)
Did he actually say "megs"?
/me cries
Question, Sir! I'm confused... (Score:1)
But the Spirit rover landed in 14.57S, 175.47E which is quite a distance in between... do I mix stuff up, is there an error on the google page or did that RC car really go all that way down there?
McMurdo panorama != McMurdo crater (Score:3, Informative)
Rodney McKay (Score:1)
"Using power. Using power. Using power."
QTVR? (Score:2)
it looks like the west mesa in Albuquerque, NM (Score:2)
that said, i visit and climb the volcanoes as often as i can, which is not nearly enough.