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A guy at FARK took the publically released "self-portrait" of Curiosity and "stitched" it together to correct it. I am not sure what he did, but it looks hugel

by jerrya 14y ago

A guy at FARK took the publically released "self-portrait" of Curiosity and "stitched" it together to correct it. I am not sure what he did, but it looks hugely better. Original: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675130main_image_2331_946-710.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/675130main_image_2331_946... Fixed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgabryelski/7747623468/sizes/o/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgabryelski/7747623468/size...

nollidge 14y ago
Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images. Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!
- jerrya 14y ago
  That's a possibility. The FARK thread is here http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-Farker-with-loving-care-here-is-an-exclusive-version-of-Curiositys-self-portrait http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-... and you're correct, he doesn't say that's the original (and it does explain some of the differences between the two) but he does call the first one: "what the common folk got to see". Regarding the stitching, when asked, he said it was a friend's proprietary software....
  - nollidge 14y ago
    ...And @MarsCuriosity JUST tweeted NASA's version of the stitch: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16027.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16027.ht... Looks like some different distortion correction, cropping, and levels correction was done between the two.
- grecy 14y ago
  Do you have a link to the tldr of the conference about the debris? I'm curious if they think it's a problem.. ?
  - nollidge 14y ago
    One of the journos asked about that, and it sounds like probably not. I know @elakdawalla was live-tweeting it, so she might mention it. Anyway the gist was that they had not predicted that debris would get kicked up like that (or at least not this much, I think), but it doesn't sound like it'll cause problems. My take is that even if they didn't expect to kick things up during landing, she's gotta be tough enough to withstand the winds as well as a bit of rough-and-tumble while roving around.

by jerrya 14y ago

nollidge 14y ago

Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images. Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!

jerrya 14y ago
That's a possibility. The FARK thread is here http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-Farker-with-loving-care-here-is-an-exclusive-version-of-Curiositys-self-portrait http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-... and you're correct, he doesn't say that's the original (and it does explain some of the differences between the two) but he does call the first one: "what the common folk got to see". Regarding the stitching, when asked, he said it was a friend's proprietary software....
- nollidge 14y ago
  ...And @MarsCuriosity JUST tweeted NASA's version of the stitch: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16027.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16027.ht... Looks like some different distortion correction, cropping, and levels correction was done between the two.
grecy 14y ago
Do you have a link to the tldr of the conference about the debris? I'm curious if they think it's a problem.. ?
- nollidge 14y ago
  One of the journos asked about that, and it sounds like probably not. I know @elakdawalla was live-tweeting it, so she might mention it. Anyway the gist was that they had not predicted that debris would get kicked up like that (or at least not this much, I think), but it doesn't sound like it'll cause problems. My take is that even if they didn't expect to kick things up during landing, she's gotta be tough enough to withstand the winds as well as a bit of rough-and-tumble while roving around.