Monthly Archives: February 2011

Ruiz Garcia is turning out to be a verrrry interesting rock. The latest images show it has had quite a hard time of it, sat there on the edge of Santa Maria crater for who-knows-how-many thousands of years: it is … Continue reading →

I’ve been having a play about with some more of the beautiful images on that MI page of the PANCAM site (see previous post) and have made another couple of mosaics. But before I show them, let me make it … Continue reading →

Well, that just shows what I know! Instead of continuing on around Santa Maria’s rim, to shoot some more wide angle portraits of the crater, Oppy has dipped slightly into the crater, edging a little way down the sloping bank … Continue reading →

After what has seemed like several YEARS of studying Luis de Torres with her cameras, microscope and instruments, Oppy has moved on further along and around the rim of Santa Maria crater, taking up position almost exactly opposite where she … Continue reading →

A shed-load of new images taken by Oppy’s microscopic imager came back, so I’ve been having some fun with those… Some 3D views… And an alternative way of seeing 3D – flipping back and forth between two images to give … Continue reading →

Oppy has sent back some new images of the hole she drilled in the rock Luis de Torres, allowing me to make this colour view… And here’s a “stack” of those images which show some of the detail on the … Continue reading →

As expected, Opy has used her Rock Abrasion Tool – RAT – to carve a small hole out of the exposed rock of Luis de Torres… Close-up of the hole… Look out for some nice images from Oppy’s microscope soon … Continue reading →

I was messing about on Google Mars again recently when a question popped into my head: would it be possible to use Google Mars to create 3D views of features on Mars, by combining pairs of images showing the feature from … Continue reading →

Hooray! Solar conjunction is over, Mars has emerged from the glare of the Sun, and Oppy is in contact with Earth again, and sending us back images and data again! Here’s her latest panorama of Santa Maria (click on it, and … Continue reading →

There’s a very interesting discussion going on over on the unmannedspaceflight.com forum, of which I am a longstanding and very proud member. As I mentioned in a previous post, a few of the UMSF members have worked together to make … Continue reading →