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Re: Glenelg

by bystander » Sun Aug 19, 2012 1:23 am

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by JohnD » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:20 pm

I'm more interested in the many discs placed on the rover, about same size as tag, with four quadrants on.
They look like this
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This guy is interested too, but he's even further out than Curiosity.
http://jstn.cc/

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by JohnD » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:07 pm

bystander wrote:
RafaC wrote:I am curious about the virtual reality tag . Can anybody elaborate a bit more on it?
K1NS wrote:Me, too. What are they talking about? Little green men with iPhones?
The "augmented reality" or AR tag seen in the foreground can be used in the future with smart phones to obtain more information about the mission.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
That's not "Near the middle of the rover"! That's on the front bumper!

Any road, here's how it's used:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Whoopee.
JOhn

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by neufer » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:55 pm

quigley wrote:
Can anyone tell me why Mt. Sharp did not erode over the eons as did the rest of the crater's sedimentary deposits?
My best guess is this:
  • After the crater was created the lowest spot (where the mineralized water pooled) was just around the central crater peak.

    Consequently, the hardest, most mineralized, sandstone developed right around the central crater peak including those last layers lain well above the original crater rim.

    When the inundation period finally ended the softer sandstone above the original crater rim dried up and blew away leaving only a hard sandstone mountain covering/encrusting the original central crater peak.

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by quigley » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:03 pm

Can anyone tell me why Mt. Sharp did not erode over the eons as did the rest of the crater's sedimentary deposits?

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by slyman » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:54 pm

^i think it was used before it was sent to mars.

it's funny the terrain in the background almost looks cg haha

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by Gord Davison » Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:37 pm

At the Astronomy picture of the day site they say "Near the middle of the rover is an augmented reality tag intended to enable smartphones to provide background information." Does anyone know what they are trying to say here? As far as I know there are no celluar networks on Mars and no cell phones to access them.

Glenelg

by neufer » Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:09 pm

http://astrobob.areavoices.com/?blog=78068 wrote: Curiosity rover ramps up for road trip to Glenelg
Posted on August 18, 2012 by astrobob

<<Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to Glenelg we go! Scientists with the Mars mission have chosen Curiosity’s first exploration destination, a little place nicknamed Glenelg (after a village in Scotland) near the base of an alluvial fan of sedimentary rocks, dirt and sand. Alluvial fans are common on Earth as streams flowing from mountains or canyons gradually spread out and deposit rocks and sand in great fans onto the flatter plains below.

Curiosity landed near the base of a similar fan-deposit on Mars; scientists will drive the rover further downhill to where the water might have collected. They’ll be looking for things like salts that are dissolved by water but later precipitate as solids when the water evaporates.

Glenelg. Notice anything peculiar about it? It’s a palindrome, a word or phrase that reads the same way in either direction. Fun examples include “kayak”, “evil olive”, “tangy gnat”, “radar” and “Oh, cameras are macho”. NASA folks selected Glenelg because the rover will be visiting the area twice – both coming and going – before it turns around and heads to the base of Mt. Sharp.

The rover will travel 400 meters to the east-southeast of its landing spot to reach Glenelg; its first drilling target will be a section of layered bedrock (likely sedimentary rock deposited by or in water). Prior to departure, the team in charge of ChemCam will zap a 3-inch rock 10 feet away named N165 with a powerful laser. The resulting spark of vaporized rock will be examined with a spectroscope to determine the minerals that make up the rock. The rover will also exercise its wheels in the coming days before moving out.>>

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by neufer » Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:48 pm

Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by bystander » Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:47 pm

RafaC wrote:I am curious about the virtual reality tag . Can anybody elaborate a bit more on it?
K1NS wrote:Me, too. What are they talking about? Little green men with iPhones?


Curiosity Looks Away from the Sun

This is the first image taken by the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover. It shows the shadow of the rover's now-upright mast in the center, and the arm's shadow at left. The arm itself can be seen in the foreground.

The navigation camera is used to help find the sun -- information that is needed for locating, and communicating, with Earth. After the camera pointed at the sun, it turned in the opposite direction and took this picture. The position of the shadow helps confirm the sun's location.

The "augmented reality" or AR tag seen in the foreground can be used in the future with smart phones to obtain more information about the mission.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by neufer » Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:08 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_seat wrote: <<A rumble seat, dicky seat, dickie seat or dickey seat, also called mother-in-law seat, is an upholstered exterior seat which hinges or otherwise opens out from the rear deck of a pre-World War II automobile, and seats one or more passengers. An 1899 Century Dictionary describes a rumble as " A seat for servants in the rear of a carriage". Roadster, Coupe and Cabriolet auto body styles were offered with either a luggage compartment or a rumble seat in the deck. Models equipped with a rumble seat were often referred to as a sport coupe or sport roadster. Rumble seat passengers were essentially seated out in the elements, and received little or no protection from the regular passenger compartment top. Folding tops and side curtains for rumble seats were available for some cars (including the Ford Model A) but never achieved much popularity. It is possible that the last American-built cars with a rumble seat were the 1939 Ford and 1939 Dodge and Plymouth.>>

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by K1NS » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:08 am

RafaC wrote:I am curious about the virtual reality tag . Can anybody elaborate a bit more on it?
Me, too. What are they talking about? Little green men with iPhones?

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by APODFORIST » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:30 am

This picture shows an alien world - the mountains of the crater rim are fantastic, though they seem a bit over elevated in this mosaic. Black and white makes it more beautiful.

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by Case » Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:46 am

Image
Thanks for refraining from posing with a duck face.

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by RafaC » Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:06 am

I'd say it's just a reflection on the top of the antena. The parachute and backshell landed several hundreds of meters away.

I am curious about the virtual reality tag . Can anybody elaborate a bit more on it?

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by ta152h0 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:06 am

Looks flat and an easy drive, no training wheels required. Is that whitish thing mid upper left a parachute or part of the rover ?

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug

by bystander » Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:06 am

Curiosity's first destination and first laser target
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=181788#p181788

APOD: Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover (2012 Aug 18)

by APOD Robot » Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:06 am

Image Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover

Explanation: What does the Curiosity rover look like on Mars? To help find out, NASA engineers digitally synthesized multiple navigation camera images taken last week into what appears to be the view of a single camera. Besides clods of Martian dirt, many of Curiosity's science instruments are visible and appear in good shape. Near the middle of the rover is an augmented reality tag intended to enable smartphones to provide background information. Far in the distance is a wall of Gale Crater. As Curiosity will begin to roll soon, its first destination has now been chosen: an intriguing intersection of three types of terrain named Glenelg.

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