And at paranoramas.dk...
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mmcirvinYes, Hans Nyberg did the Meridiani panorama too. This was all shot before the rover drove off its lander early Saturday morning.
Unlike the other Martian landing site panoramas, there's not much to see in large stretches of this one, partly because of the relative absence of rubble and partly because most of the picture is only looking out ten meters or so. (You can see a little bit of the more distant landscape peeking over the rim here and there. At today's JPL press briefing, there was a question as to whether those tantalizing pixels above the rocky outcrop are distant blocks or mesas, and the answer is that nobody knows, yet.) The lander bounced into a small crater on its airbags and rolled back and forth a little bit (though not as much as initially believed; they were fooled by a radio interference phenomenon) before coming to rest, and this panorama shows the bag-prints nicely.
An annoying thing I see a lot in QuickTime VR panoramas is the tendency to assemble the pictures without regard to real-world geometry, so that the horizon is in the wrong place or a less-than-360-degree pano gets stretched to fill a full circle. Often this will make a flat landscape look like a view from the bottom of a bowl, and the perspective effect is fake and distorted. The panos on Nyberg's site are all assembled correctly, though. In this case, the view really is from the bottom of a bowl, but you can see that it's a pretty shallow one.
Correction: That should be panoramas.dk, of course. I wonder what a paranorama would be.
Unlike the other Martian landing site panoramas, there's not much to see in large stretches of this one, partly because of the relative absence of rubble and partly because most of the picture is only looking out ten meters or so. (You can see a little bit of the more distant landscape peeking over the rim here and there. At today's JPL press briefing, there was a question as to whether those tantalizing pixels above the rocky outcrop are distant blocks or mesas, and the answer is that nobody knows, yet.) The lander bounced into a small crater on its airbags and rolled back and forth a little bit (though not as much as initially believed; they were fooled by a radio interference phenomenon) before coming to rest, and this panorama shows the bag-prints nicely.
An annoying thing I see a lot in QuickTime VR panoramas is the tendency to assemble the pictures without regard to real-world geometry, so that the horizon is in the wrong place or a less-than-360-degree pano gets stretched to fill a full circle. Often this will make a flat landscape look like a view from the bottom of a bowl, and the perspective effect is fake and distorted. The panos on Nyberg's site are all assembled correctly, though. In this case, the view really is from the bottom of a bowl, but you can see that it's a pretty shallow one.
Correction: That should be panoramas.dk, of course. I wonder what a paranorama would be.
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