check Opportunity Rover: "Cape St. Mary" in Alternate Lighting Conditions

6 years 5 months ago #10326 by Todd
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These are two composites made from Pan-cam images taken on sol 1006 showing a section of Victoria Crater's cliff side / crater wall. The images included in the top composite were taken at "late morning," the images included in the bottom composite were taken at "mid-afternoon." The images were processed from the PDS raw .img files and stacked for RGB color.



NASA/JPL/Cornell originals

photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09086
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09079
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6 years 5 months ago #10327 by RocketDawg
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The detail differences are striking to the point of the two not even looking like the same place except around the edges, so to speak. It would be nice if each picture that was taken had morning, noon, and late afternoon lighting conditions.

Todd ... do you know if there's any capability for 3-D, or stereoscopic, imaging on the rover? I remember seeing some of the Apollo stereo pictures and they added a lot to the details.
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6 years 5 months ago - 6 years 5 months ago #10334 by Todd
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The cliff side is more illuminated in the morning light because the sun is at a lower angle, the afternoon images show better ground detail because of the higher sun. The MSL team frequently takes left and right images of certain targets and those images can be made into 3-D anaglyphs, but the red / cyan glasses are needed to view them. Here's an example of one I did back in 2016.
www.whatsupinthesky.com/media/kunena/attachments/1237/sol1110a.png

Some of the MSL and MER 360° images have been turned into pans by Neville Thompson, but MSL sols where that can be done are somewhat rare.

www.360cities.net/profile/nev-t
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6 years 5 months ago - 6 years 5 months ago #10335 by Glitch_Neo
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:ohmy: Todd = Imaging demi god!

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quick 5 mins job so its only an example - we can mix the two images - the crater detail and the outer detail from each image... like this...
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6 years 5 months ago #10336 by Todd
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Actually, the MER Pan-cam Mast Assembly has a left and right lens and is capable of directing the navcams, thus making 360° and left / right images possible. I have no idea how often it was done but there are a lot of anaglyphs from all the rover missions in the Photojournal.

www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Reg_Willson/2003JE002077.pdf

photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
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