a martian oddbox

[ArMaP]

I need a vacation, it's the third time this week that I miss something right in front of my eyes.

On this page they have the Digital Terrain Model (first link under "DTM & ORTHOIMAGES"), which looks like a displacement map to me, so I suppose that can make things easier.

As they have the DTM in IMG format and the ortho photo in JP2 and I don't know if you are able to convert both to a more common format, you can download PNG versions of those two files from the links below.

Ortho photo PSP_009294_1750
http://www.4shared.com/photo/HHRx13nJba/DTEEC_009149_1750_009294_1750_.html]DTM

PS: that photo from Curiosity showing the "pyramid" was taken when the rover was just outside the top left of those images, marked with a yellow star in the image below.

[funbox]

I need a vacation, it's the third time this week that I miss something right in front of my eyes.

On this page they have the Digital Terrain Model (first link under "DTM & ORTHOIMAGES"), which looks like a displacement map to me, so I suppose that can make things easier.

As they have the DTM in IMG format and the ortho photo in JP2 and I don't know if you are able to convert both to a more common format, you can download PNG versions of those two files from the links below.

Ortho photo PSP_009294_1750
http://www.4shared.com/photo/HHRx13nJba/DTEEC_009149_1750_009294_1750_.html]DTM

PS: that photo from Curiosity showing the "pyramid" was taken when the rover was just outside the top left of those images, marked with a yellow star in the image below.

excellent , im just going through them now .. big files to download though

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[funbox]

these images I think, will need some Photoshop editing before being used for this method



could you indicate where the Pyramid shaped object would be ?

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[funbox]

I was guessing somewhere



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[ArMaP]

Nice work!

I agree, it needs some adjustments.

Can you post a view from close to the ground, at the point marked with the star in the image below? I think the "pyramid" is what I circled in the background, but if we can get a view from more or less the same point of view of the rover it will be easier to find.

[funbox]

Nice work!

I agree, it needs some adjustments.

Can you post a view from close to the ground, at the point marked with the star in the image below? I think the "pyramid" is what I circled in the background, but if we can get a view from more or less the same point of view of the rover it will be easier to find.

cheers

its not right , a sort of quazi interpretation of the landscape
as near as I could get to that position



I think the nearest thing to accuracy is the sun bloom

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[ArMaP]

I agree, something's wrong with that, too bad I don't have the slightest idea of what it may be.

It was worth the try.

[funbox]

I agree, something's wrong with that, too bad I don't have the slightest idea of what it may be.

It was worth the try.

do year hear the warbling echo of the fat lady ?

are you certain that is the correct satellite strip for the region we can see ? 

im sure some of the feature we see in the surface picture can be matched to the satellite picture..

the sand dune next to the rover,  once we have the correct angle and orientation of the rover in the strip , and at least three of the features in the picture correctly mapped to the satellite picture, well  I guess you can see how this will give useful reference points

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[ArMaP]

are you certain that is the correct satellite strip for the region we can see ?

Yes, I'm certain.

This is from the official Curiosity traverse map:


As you can see, this area is just outside the area of the ortho photo/displacement map.

[funbox]

Yes, I'm certain.

good match up, now

what dune do we suppose this is most likely to be?



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[funbox]

I think we might need the strip nextdoor,



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[ArMaP]

good match up, now

what dune do we suppose this is most likely to be?

That's Namib dune.

[ArMaP]

I think we might need the strip nextdoor

I don't think so, that whole area is there, why do you think we need it?

[funbox]

because theres a chance it maybe out of shot on that strip, see above , it maybe angling more to the right *on the surface* or left as viewed in the above sat pic

which would push us into the next strip I think

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[ArMaP]

I don't think so, let me see if I have the time to post an image showing what I mean before going to sleep.

Edit: no time for doing it now, and I think I might be wrong again, but I know what I should do to see where we should look, tomorrow.