Phenomenal on orbit shots of Oppurtunity

HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what
else they find, maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff. All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............Doc

link is
On Oct 6, 1:09 http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/
m, wrote:
HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what
else they find, maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff. All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............Doc

wrote:
link is
On Oct 6, 1:09 http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/
m, wrote:
HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what
else they find, maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff. All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............Doc

It looks like a flea on a dog. Great shot, though.

;-)

Rusty

Funny I thought it looked a flea to. I'm psyched tho, gonna be in
Tuscon this coming week and try to get a tour of their facility,
Yessssss!..............Doc

On Oct 6, 3:15 pm, "Rusty" wrote:
wrote:
link is
On Oct 6, 1:09http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/
m, wrote:
HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what
else they find, maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff. All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............DocIt looks like a flea on a dog. Great shot, though.

;-)

Rusty

Rusty wrote:

It looks like a flea on a dog. Great shot, though.





On this one you can even see the wheel tracks the rover left behind it:
http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/...red.browse.jpg
....considering the rover's small size, photagraphy of this resolution
pretty much rules out any Martian mobile lifeforms larger than a dog, as
you'd see their footprints.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:


On this one you can even see the wheel tracks the rover left behind it:
http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/...red.browse.jpg


Pat

"Canali"?

8-}

Rusty

Can you imagine, we will soon be able to see the vast deserted remnants
of the living quarters of the martian workmen at the great Martian
smiley face...............Doc
On Oct 6, 8:04 pm,
Pat Flannery wrote:
Rusty wrote:
It looks like a flea on a dog. Great shot, though.On this one you can even see the wheel tracks the rover left behind it:http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/...0/Victoria-red....
...considering the rover's small size, photagraphy of this resolution
pretty much rules out any Martian mobile lifeforms larger than a dog, as
you'd see their footprints.

Pat

On 6 Oct 2006 13:09:29 -0700, wrote:

HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what
else they find, maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff. All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............Doc

....I've just uploaded an entry on OMBlog with a couple of closeup
enhanced shots of Opportunity. The last one's really tweaked with the
contrast and the sharpen filters in Photoslop, but even without you
can clearly make out the camera mast and the shadows, as well as the
semi-hexagonal shape the Rover takes on from direcly up above.

....FYI, I posted yesterday an entry on the 49th anniversary of Sputnik
I, and my own views on what it really meant, panic and all. I expect
Henry to comment on this shortly :-)

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wrote:
HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what
else they find, maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff. All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............Doc


Yeah, just caught a good look at them last night.

Hot damn diggety. Yumm-mmy, yum.

This is the first photo from orbit I've seen of a lander/rover on the
surface of Mars where I can easily make out the object _without_ the
annotations. Most times, I look at the annotated foto first, then the
original foto, and can't see the damn' object _anywhere_.

But, _this_ one... god _damn_.

With _this_ one, I can not only pick out the rover on the surface --
_and_ the tracks -- very easily after viewing the annotated foto, but
I'll bet I could've picked out the rover (though maybe not the tracks)
_before_ viewing the annotated foto, but _with_ the aid of an up-to-date
traverse map.

While I'm sure that looking for rovers/landers and/or rover/lander
wreckage is probably not Job One for the MRO team, I'm sure there's a
fair contingent among them who'd just _love_ to start looking for the
MPL and Beagle wreckage, though the Opportunity shot probably makes it
look way easier than it really is. And, given the way the xUSSR handled
things back then, the remains of any of their failed Mars landers will
probably be next to impossible to spot.

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Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

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In article s.com,
mike flugennock wrote:
While I'm sure that looking for rovers/landers and/or rover/lander
wreckage is probably not Job One for the MRO team, I'm sure there's a
fair contingent among them who'd just _love_ to start looking for the
MPL and Beagle wreckage...

Oh, they do plan to try. But holding of breath is not appropriate. :-)
In both cases, there's a big problem with the uncertain location of the
remains -- that big camera is not well-suited to searching large areas.
The likelihood that the wreckage will be camouflaged by a layer of dust by
now doesn't help either.

And in the case of MPL, if memory serves, there is the added complication
of bad timing: it's now autumn at the south pole, lighting conditions are
deteriorating rapidly, and the area will soon be in continuous darkness as
winter sets in. And MRO operations are about to be hampered for a month
or two by solar conjunction. The odds are that any serious hunt for MPL
will have to wait a year or so until the area has good sunlight again.
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