From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>
Date: October 25, 2005 9:24:18 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] MER B on Mars
Hi Tim -
Fascinating. Does the martian atmosphere affect imaging from the orbiter looking in as ours does looking out?
Alan
On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Tim wrote:
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.
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