Mars Rover - height above ground?

Because the rover cameras are about the same height as a human, we're
getting some nice panoramas, but they would be even nicer if the rover could
get up some of the hills that seem to be around in the distance.

Anyone know if there are plans for Spirit to get up those hills and get a
good look round? Are they even in range?

- Michael

"MichaelJP" wrote in message
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Because the rover cameras are about the same height as a human, we're
getting some nice panoramas, but they would be even nicer if the rover
could
get up some of the hills that seem to be around in the distance.

Is anyone else having trouble with the 3d views? I find the red and blue
images, particularly the foreground, are too widely seperated to bring
together into the 3d view. Any tips?

Sam

"Sam" [email protected] wrote in message ...

"MichaelJP" wrote in message
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Because the rover cameras are about the same height as a human, we're
getting some nice panoramas, but they would be even nicer if the rover
could
get up some of the hills that seem to be around in the distance.

Is anyone else having trouble with the 3d views? I find the red and blue
images, particularly the foreground, are too widely seperated to bring
together into the 3d view. Any tips?

Not exactly... when I first used virtual reality headsets a decade ago I
found that I had problems getting the images to coalesce. After a bit of
fiddling with the settings it turned out that my eyes are significantly
further apart than average and certainly farther apart than the images were
being generated. In addition to that, I have atypical image perception (one
symptom of which is that I can rarely see spatial optical illusions - I
perceive the actual image and not the induced one).

One thing that I found helps with 3D is to focus on something in the
distance and then quickly move to the 3D setup and hope that during the
accommodation my perception latches onto the coalesced image and stays there
for a while...

Stephen

"MichaelJP" wrote in message
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Because the rover cameras are about the same height as a human, we're
getting some nice panoramas, but they would be even nicer if the rover
could
get up some of the hills that seem to be around in the distance.

Anyone know if there are plans for Spirit to get up those hills and get a
good look round? Are they even in range?

- Michael


I think in one of the press briefings they mentioned the hills could be upto
2km away, it might be able to reach them, it certainly could get a lot
closer if they choose to. There seems to be alot of interest in them from
the science team.

Elysium Fossa wrote:
I think in one of the press briefings they mentioned the hills could be upto
2km away, it might be able to reach them, it certainly could get a lot
closer if they choose to. There seems to be alot of interest in them from
the science team.

Drive closer to them, yes, but I doubt very much if they are going to
try to climb them.

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Greg

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Anyone know if there are plans for Spirit to get up those hills and get a
good look round? Are they even in range?

- Michael

They talked about this during the press conference on Saturday. They
said the hills are about 2.5 km away and they are debating if that's
in range. That's about the max range of the rover, but sounds like
many of the scientists want to go here... so they might

"Peterson, David" wrote in message
om...
Anyone know if there are plans for Spirit to get up those hills and get
a
good look round? Are they even in range?

- Michael

They talked about this during the press conference on Saturday. They
said the hills are about 2.5 km away and they are debating if that's
in range. That's about the max range of the rover, but sounds like
many of the scientists want to go here... so they might

I suppose it also depends on how smooth the climb would be. There would be
one hell of a view though!! I guess that once the Rover is reaching the end
of it's life, they might take a risk and send it somewhere more dangerous.

Martin

I think the plan is to drive up the hills, they don't look all that steep to
me, the Rovers can go up and down pretty steep inclines, the only limiting
condition is a lateral tilt of 30 degrees or less is programmed into the safety
software, the Rovers won't tip over untill 45 degrees though.

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