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"The name of the guy who won is Dan Vartolomei, an Structures and Configuration Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Congratulations, Dan. Enjoy your $15! (each of them put a buck each)."

Full story: http://gizmodo.com/5932214/heres-exactly-where-mars-curiosity-landedand-the-nasa-engineer-who-won-that-bet

You can read more about her here, very interesting that she is Chinese-american. Seems like this Curiosity naming is giving her lot of courage.

http://mashable.com/author/clara-ma/

She has quite a lot of attention on twitter: https://twitter.com/claratma

Good for her.

If the sensor was exposed to light long enough, it would be overexposed, whether it was on Earth, Mars, or Pluto.

A photograph can lie about how bright a place is. Take a look at these nighttime photos for proof of that.

I'd look into some engineering fonts that are of the type typically used on blueprints, like this: https://www.fontspace.com/architectype-font-f51055

Or others here: https://www.fontspace.com/search?q=architect

Hi MrSquig, linear interpolation may not work so well from 4 frames / sec to 25/30. That's why we're looking into slowmovideo which does warp based interpolation (I think).

Still, maybe that's an unfair assumption. Have you tried interpolating a few frames from the MARDI sequence?

> I forgot to mention, I also have a python script written that downloads all the MARDI frames to your computer.

That's why I wanted to create a repository, I wrote one too! No need duplicating efforts on something so trivial :)

If you have android phone with Google cardboard you can view Curiosity panoramas in 3d for almost the entire mission up to about two weeks ago, albeit without any exposure corrections.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.codepilot.mars

In spite of the patchy mosaics the 3D mode is fantastic. Its like looking through a pair of binoculars. Once the developer gets automated exposure correction it will be even better.

I'm looking forward to see what you can put together!

I did a quick & dirty composite here; https://mega.nz/#fm/f0EmEaKQ ... I reckon this mosaic is going to be a doozy.

How do you manage to correct for curved horizons? Have you updated your workflow? I have noticed a marked improvement in the quality of the images you are posting.

Can't you 3D print it? I'm sure there's a fab-model of it somewhere, it's so geeky :)

Edit: found this and this

Thanks for the link. Have you you tried using Hugin? I've found that it's default settings can stitch pretty much any of the Curiosity image sets together without issue, without having to dive into control point editing at all. I did this sol 1352 pano with it a few months back and the only manual changes I had to make were the panoramic mapping and generating unphotographed areas (Sky and lower-left corner) in Photoshop.

The problem isn't with driving on shredded wheels (which it should be able to do). The problem is if pieces of the shredded aluminum get caught somewhere and cause damage.

Curiosity landed on its wheels at about 1 meter a second. That drove the titanium spoke/flexure design. But after you get that sorted out I think that the theory was to just evolve the MER wheels (here's a picture of the MER, Pathfinder, and MSL wheels) because they have years of successful use.

Ah, I'm very excited! this is the program which I was referring to. It uses motionflow technology to actually interpolate the motion frames! There's a separate program that can do it, but it's failed on both my computers. Can you get it to work? http://slowmovideo.granjow.net/faq.html