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Curiosity rover selfie at Murray Buttes 360 Panorama | 360Cities (www.360cities.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by paulhammond5155 to c/curiosityrover

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Near the end of its investigation of the Murray Buttes area, the Curiosity rover took this farewell selfie at the "Quela" drilling location in September 2016 (Sol 1463).

Simeon Schmauß processed this panorama using 89 MAHLI images from the mission PDS. The colors were calibrated and white balanced to approximate what the human eye would see after adapting to the local light conditions.

The sky was filled in using simulated sky images from Steve Albers

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers/Simeon Schmauß

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Thank you!

[–] paulhammond5155 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you!

Not sure if you can watch the YouTube 360 videos, but if you can here's a bunch of them https://www.youtube.com/@Mars360/videos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Looks like firefox mobile isnt compatible. Oh well. At least other people can check those out. Just knowing that's even a thing is pretty neat.

[–] paulhammond5155 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'll share other 360Cities as I find them, I know there's a few out there :)

[–] Helkriz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would like to see the original version. Like the sky etc.

[–] paulhammond5155 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Quela

Here's a link to the standard panorama (PIA20844) as produced by JPL: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20844.jpg

This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Quela" drilling location in the "Murray Buttes" area on lower Mount Sharp.

Key features on the skyline of this panorama are the dark mesa called "M12" to the left of the rover's mast and pale, upper Mount Sharp to the right of the mast. The top of M12 stands about 23 feet (7 meters) above the base of the sloping piles of rocks just behind Curiosity.

The scene combines approximately 60 images taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the rover's robotic arm. Most of the component images were taken on Sept. 17, 2016, during the 1,463rd Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars. Two component images of the drill-hole area in front of the rover were taken on Sol 1466 (Sept. 20) to show the hole created by collecting a drilled sample at Quela on Sol 1464 (Sept. 18).

The skyline sweeps from west on the left to south-southwest on the right, with the rover's mast at northeast. The rover's location when it recorded this scene was where it ended a drive on Sol 1455

The view does not include the rover's arm nor the MAHLI camera itself, except in the miniature scene reflected upside down in the parabolic mirror at the top of the mast. That mirror is part of Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. MAHLI appears in the center of the mirror.

Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic's component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images, or portions of images, that were used in this mosaic.

For scale, the rover's wheels are 20 inches (50 centimeters) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Source: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20844

[–] Helkriz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks a lot.