Images of Mars

[rlb2]

10 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[chew_on_this]

What happened to the fancifull appellations? Don't let one stick in the mud crank stifle your imagination.

 

[abq_farside]

RE: Images More 5, 6, 8, 9<br /><br />rlb2 - great images. <br /><br />I really struggle with the images that look so much like mud tracks, but aren't. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em><font size="1" color="#000080">Don't let who you are keep you from becoming who you want to be!</font></em></p> </div>

 

[centsworth_II]

Ant Farm <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

From Oppy: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

The latest from Oppy: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[rlb2]

<font color="orange">Don't let one stick in the mud crank stifle your imagination. <font color="white"><br /><br />I was up late that night trying to feed all my images into the system before I left. Some of the stuff in the images looks kind of alien to me. I'm making an archive of the weird looking rocks and hope to post them on my website soon.<br /><br />Here is an old one that will be posted with another close-up with more detail.<br /></font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

RE: Images More 5, 6, 8, 9 <br /><br />rlb2 - great images. <br /><br />Thanks I upgraded my equipment, I need to play with it more to be more sure that I am getting <br />close to the true colors, although a lot of times you can see more difference in the mineralogy of <br />the rocks from false color than true color. Don't know how close to true I am yet. I’m trying to <br />follow their color code system for the RGB filters, as close as I can but there are other factors <br />to consider along with the filter colors. Did you know that according to there color code that <br />L4 filter is more orange than red? <br /><br />On the rover tracks, there are several ideas why they look mud-like, one I mentioned right <br />after they landed in early January 2004, to my knowledge no one suggest this before. <br />My suggestion was that it might be because of saturated moist soil from permafrost <br />under the dry topsoil could be made out of bacterial mats, like the ones at Yellowstone.<br /> At that time I enrage most of the space.com thread members because they claimed that <br />life couldn’t exist on Mars today. Some of them since have opened there minds more to <br />the idea of extremophiles existing on Mars after the rovers spent over 200 sols on Mars <br />and the Mars express discover methane in the atmosphere. In fact just recently a <br />paper was published that hypothesize mats for the rover tracks, encouraging but we will have to wait until<br /> the data backs up the hypothesis. <br /><br /><br />Here is another image. <br /><br />2P14LM1<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[Swampcat]

"Ebenezer" from Spirit, Sol 236 (L3, L5 & L6): <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[rlb2]

More images<br /><br />Note these first few images are single images that don't have all three separate filter.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

1P147624474ESFL7M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

1P147624859ESF81L7M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

2N147591040EFFR0M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

2N147592573EFFR0M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

1P146560844EFFL5M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

2P147583507EFFL5M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[rlb2]

Close-up of a previous image <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[Swampcat]

The MERs will be out of communication with Earth during solar conjunction which ends September 20. Obviously, there have been no new raw<br />images for a few sols.<br /><br />For some time I have avoided posting MER images using other than the L3 or L4 filters for red, but thought I'd post a few color images using the<br />L2 filter during this lull in the action.<br /><br />This one is from Spirit on Sol 238: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

Spirit, Sol 241 -- green filter image had a little data loss: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[abq_farside]

RE: 1P147624474ESFL7M1<br /><br />Fallen statue? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em><font size="1" color="#000080">Don't let who you are keep you from becoming who you want to be!</font></em></p> </div>

 

[thechemist]

swampcat : <br />Keep them posted please ... regardless of filters...<br />I 'm suffering from accute MER image deprivation <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

<font color="yellow">"I 'm suffering from accute MER image deprivation <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />"</font><br /><br />I hear ya'.<br /><br />Unfortunately, I may not be able to do quite as much after conjunction as I've been doing...work is interfering with my 'net time <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" />. But I'll do what I can. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

OK...images are starting to flow in again <img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" />.<br /><br />Oppy, Sol 219: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

Oppy, Sol 219: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[rlb2]

1P-146559767EFFL7M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>