MER Spirt malfunctioning

[Jon P. Inghram]

I think those little tinted streaks below the small rocks are just from the CCD bleeding, they really had to crank the exposure up to get decent detail in the soil.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/002/1P128374548EDN0200P2212L6M1.HTML

[cjolley]

I was talking about this one.
Seems to have a shadow.
chuck

[Jon P. Inghram]

I found the three raw pancam images, you can see in the full sized color panorama where the edged of the frame are and also how much they reduced the contrast in the panorama to make all the different frames fit together without looking horrible.

Right 753nm (near infrared)

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/002/1P128374324EFF0200P2212R2M1.HTML

Left 535nm (green):

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/002/1P128374368EDN0200P2212L5M1.HTML

Left 483nm (blue):

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/002/1P128374392EDN0200P2212L6M1.HTML

[cjolley]

Interesting.
Looks like an obvious artifact in the separate detailed photos.
Combining and smoothing make it look like an object.
Still, the same thing might happen if the exposure was way up and it was a bright object.
chuck

[Jon P. Inghram]

I just now noticed that the bunny thingy isn't visible in the B&W panorama: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle..._str2-B0R2.jpg

I at first thought that light colored object below and to the right of the outcrop was it, but in the color panorama that's the really bright one that we were just talking about, not the "playboy bunny" one.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Someone over on the Orbiter forums came up with a rather reasonable sounding theory: it's just debris from some pyro device.

[cjolley]

Reasonable shmeasonable.
I want Martians.
chuck

[Jon P. Inghram]

Now some interesting Opportunity microscopic images, with what would seem to be perhaps tektites (the round rocks.)

[Ajax]

How big are the rovers?

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Ajax
How big are the rovers?

Usually described as "Golf Cart" sized.
They are a lot bigger than the one a few years ago.
chuck

[Ajax]

Was the first rover this size?

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Ajax
Was the first rover this size?

LOL, I think that's the rover version of Mini-Me.
It's a model.
chuck

[VJ]

IIRC the Pathfinder was about the size of a microwave oven...


Jörg

[Ajax]

I knew those pics weren't from mars, they are just using mini's in someone's backyard sandbox.
From the perspective of a mouse, Mars would seem like a much larger place.

[GT98]

Originally posted by Ajax

I knew those pics weren't from mars, they are just using mini's in someone's backyard sandbox.
From the perspective of a mouse, Mars would seem like a much larger place.

IIRC the Cameras on the Rovers are postioned at 2 Meters...about the hieght of human.