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Backup image here if you have problems getting to the MSSS website.

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Hehee. Those image machine guys just get cleverer and cleverer. Will MOGS pass over Beagle 2's landing site soon? I realise the resolution wouldn't be able to give much detail but it would be nice to see if we can spot where the dog buried the bone.

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Wow, now that's just great! You made my day ToSeek, I never knew I could have such fascination for a little line in the dirt...

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IIRC, they had this a few days ago on their page, using the same technique to find Beagle 2. They spotted a dark, er, spot at the possible landing/impact site, but too small o really give clues.

Harald

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Like anything else out there, sometimes you just gotta admire the things they can do.

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I've been looking at this picture all day now.

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What a treat! 8)

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So have I, and also trying to capture in words how I feel whenever I see that shot.

I guess "awe" would sum it up pretty nicely. One human artifact on another planet, leaving traces visible from space.

When I was but a lad we were forced to watch this NFB (National Film Board) short that I can only now claim was a spiritual movie. It started with a shot of a man taken from the Peace Tower of Canada's parliament buildings. It zoomed out from there into Earth's atmosphere, the inner and then outer solar system, our neck of the woods, the arm we're in, then the Milky Way, then our local cluster, then even the Milky Way was gone... lost in a sea of galaxies... then nothing.

Zoom back in to earth and then to the man standing on the street, to his arm and a mosquito... down to the microscopic, the molecular, the atomic, the sub atomic... then nothing.

It gave me a sense of proportion but also at how vast the universe is in either direction, how much we had to learn and know.

And now we see our tracks on another planet. One lonely vehicle on this barren world. All the hopes and dreams and energies of countless people that went into both the MGS and the MER programs, all the hopes and dreams of people here... who like me get a shiver at the immensity and the majesty of this universe.

Well done folks, well done.

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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
s no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Sounds like Powers of Ten, though I get the impression there are several versions of the same idea now.

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I just have to say it.


WOW!

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It's here. At this point they don't think they've found the landing site, but they're still taking images of parts of the landing ellipse as opportunity permits.

They've also imaged the Viking 1 and Pathfinder landing sites.

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ToSeek's first link reveals the headaches they must go through to get these enhanced images.

This is complicated by things such as communication scheduling and solar panel to sun alignments.

Way to go JPL. =D>

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I remember it as being a boy on a rowing boat, with the insect on his arm, and the film was called Cosmic Zoom, but I'm sure it's the same film you're describing.

Like everyone here, I'm knocked out by the images of the rover tracks. It feels like we're hovering just a few hundred feet above the surface. Tracks on Mars. Charlie Duke should see this.

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Too bad that there is no definitive dot that represents Sojourner.

I've always wondered how far Sojourner went after the lander shut down, IIRC the rover was programmed to move around the lander if it lost communication.

Anybody know where the last lander panorama is? Maybe we can look at the spot where Sojourner was last known to be.

Ditto!

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Very impressive.

The rover probobly shut down after it's battery died.

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Here's what seems to be the last shot of the rover. Putting it in context in a panorama, it appears to be just to the left of the rock garden, a little ways from the lander. (The panorama shows a very small rover in the vicinity, behind three closer images of the rover, a little to the left of the "Twin Peaks" and almost directly behind the left off-ramp.)

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There's a number of candidate "rocks" and even a white pixel in the MGS image... Should be possible to identify the rock garden. Probably not possible to identify something as small as Sojourner.

I think the rock garden is the dark clump at about the 9 o'clock position relative to the lander and about three times as far away as Yogi.

I see a bright spot at the 3 o'clock direction and both a dark and bright spot in the 5 o'clock direction with the dark spot closer. You'd probably have to do a very careful comparison of a good panorama with the image in order to match up "spots" and figure out which ones are rocks. Not something I'm up for, particularly since the experts couldn't be bothered.

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MGS views the trek to the Columbia Hills

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Why no images of Opportunity?

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The current imaging footprint of the MGS may not pass over where Opportunity is currently working. Or it does so under conditions are not optimal for this kind of high resolution technique.

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Is there any way to find out what MGS's current imaging footprint looks like?

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That I do not know.

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Fram, you've got a crater on Mars named after you!
(I knew you were just a hole in the ground)

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Interesting that you can still make out the tracks with all the weathering that goes on there.

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What I'm really anxious for is the upcoming MRO program. Able to spot objects, relatively clearly, that are the size of *dinner plates*, it will be fascinating to see not only what kind of shape Pathfinder and Sojourner are in, but the Vikings as well. Not to mention perhaps the Polar Lander, or even the Soviet landers (actually, I can't remember if there was more than one or not). Of course, these last two might be up to sheer luck, since I don't think we know with any kind of reliability where the Polar Lander went down, and probably have no confidence at all about the Soviet lander(s).

...John...

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