From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: October 24, 2005 4:18:09 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: MER B on Mars

Hi guys:

Check this out:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/10/24/index.html

Before and after images, taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (about a 14" Cass) on Mars Global 

Surveyor, of the rover near "Erebus Crater" on October 5th.  I keep our location map up to 

date with daily  panoramas from the rover mosaicked with the MOC images taken before and 

after landing, so it was cool to have independent verification from orbit of my prediction 

(within a meter or so) of where the rover was with respect to ground features.

It's also weird going from centimeter/pixel (or higher resolution) images of Mars at my "day 

job" to something more like hundreds of kilometers/pixel at night from home!  

Of course, I haven't even seen the sky since Friday, since we're socked in with the marine 

layer!

-Tim.