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Re: Phoenix Mars Mission

frank — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:48:28 GMT

Here's the first panorama rendered as an equirectangular (spherical) panorama. It's a bit low in resolution so it gets grainy when you zoom it (scroll wheel or RMB pull up). You can look up and down and get a good feel for the place. I can't wait for the hi-res pan to be posted. I'll post it to my site (http://nasatech.net) after I've converted it to a sphere. Also, check out Phoenix in the clean room before her launch last August (http://66.181.217.155/Phoenix070626/)

Enjoy!

http://66.181.217.155/Phoenix-Mars/

Re: Phoenix Mars Mission

Ethan Zoller — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:22:18 GMT

cool! there are a bunch of panorama-creating tools listed at http://wiki.panotools.org/Windows_software. (I haven't used any of these myself, but I've loaded a bunch of equirectangular panoramas in WWT & they look great.)

Re: Phoenix Mars Mission

jeradc — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:48:41 GMT

If anyone wants to point me to a tool to create the appropriate panorama, I wouldn't mind giving it a shot.

Re: Phoenix Mars Mission

Ethan Zoller — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:52:19 GMT

The Phoenix panorama dataset won't be complete until sol 4 (tomorrow), according to today's press release (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/05_28_pr.php). I'm hoping that once it's out, it won't be too long before there's a high-res equirectangular panorama from either the Phoenix team or stitched together by somebody on the interwebs. then you'll just be able to point WWT at the panorama address. Ideally, there will be one directly accessible inside WWT, but the nice part is, you're not gated on it. :)

Phoenix Mars Mission

jeradc — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:15:35 GMT

It would be pretty cool to get these new Mars images up in a panorama: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=7