Could someone explain how to translate the data information so that the bearings of the camera when a picture was taken can be understood according to North-South-East-West on the martian planet?

Thanks,

Leslie Charles

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Hello. I am going to provide a short video demonstrating getting data from the Mars Curiosity rover using the Analyst’s Notebook.

In this case, I want to download Navcam image data from a particular sol using a pattern for the data product ID.

I will start by signing into to the Notebook. An account is not required but is useful for return visits to the site.

Let me minimize this introductory help window.

For this demonstration, our goal is to find Navcam data from a specific sol using product ID pattern matching. Let’s click on the search tab, and then select data search.

Now we will set some filters.

• We want data from sol 611, so I will enter 611 as the start sol and click tab. I also will set the end sol. Notice that the results have changed to reflect this setting.
• Let’s constrain search results to only Navcam data.
• And then let’s scroll to the bottom to add our product ID pattern. In this case, we are looking for linearized RAD data with a specific sequence value.

Notice the prompt at the top of the results listing. The suggestion is that we change the Results view setting to “all products” based on our use of the ID filter. Let me scroll the filter list to the top where we see that currently the Results view is set to “Observation groups”. We will accept the suggested change, and now we have 10 data products in the results view.

As a side note, we can read more about the Results view filter using the help options provided. More information is available in this help window.

Now that we have found the data that matches our settings, we will add them to our cart.

Let’s now go to our cart to finish the order and download the data. The cart is found in the User tab. We will click on View cart and checkout.

I will accept the current Order settings and continue to step 2 of the checkout.

The settings here show that I will receive an email when a zip file is ready for download. I will click Submit Request and look forward to the email message that will arrive shortly. The message will include a link to a zip file with the data we ordered.

If you have questions about using the Notebook, you can switch to the Help tab to access the online documentation and to get information about contacting us directly.

 

I am trying to determine the size of features in a particular MSL Curiosity image, and I'm unsure how to do this. Ultimately, I would like to use the photo, with a scale bar, in a comparison to a terrestrial feature. 

I have looked over the PDS Label, but am unsure what to do with the information. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

This is my best attempt at compiling it into a video: https://streamable.com/7nak5

You can see there are a couple high resolution images amongst the potato quality footage

By exploring the MERB Notebook I can look at all of that wonderful data from each Sol, but I also understand there's supposed to be a SIS associated with each data package? Is this the same as viewing the PDS label? I was hoping that documentation would help resolve some of this issue.

Again, I apologize for my ignorance. I've been searching for answers to these questions for a few days now and felt like it was about time to ask a question.

Thanks for the great product of Analyst's Notebook!

I tried to sign up a new account, but it always tells me the password was too simple. I tried some complicated combinations including letters and numbers, and it still says "it is too weak"

A second question is: how can I search only the red-blue mosaics of the NC? I tried to read the help file and go through all the options, but no good luck.

Thanks,

Jun

Example:

http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx?m=MERA&sol=358&cat=NONE

I go there and click on any of the drop down options and it goes to:

http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/merbrowser/error.html?aspxerrorpath=/mer/merbrowser/browser.aspx

which is a blank page.

My .NET is up to date and I have used FF, IE, and Chrome.

Any help??

OK, so for MER I go to the site maps and I can make a map of a site out to a specified distance with feature names on it. I have overlaid those maps on vertical projection mosaics to identify rocks at some sites. (Why? I'm beginning to compile a map and image-based history of MER operations, having just done it for Viking and Pathfinder in a book due out next year).

But... first, it's an inefficient way to find all named features. This is even worse at the Phoenix notebook where I can call up a list of names, then get an annotated photo of it, some of which don't show the named feature or are ambiguous in other ways - but at Phoenix, one site, a more efficient solution would be a panorama with labelled names right on it, as was done for Pathfinder. For MER, a series of labelled pans would be needed. Or maybe an album of photos, organized by site, then by name, showing the named feature and targets.

Second... it seems to me that as we go on in the mission, fewer and fewer names are being recorded in this way. I could be wrong in this example, but I don't think the craters in the Resolution crater cluster (Opportunity) are all available in the MER site maps.

Third, names pile up on other names until they are illegible in some cases.

The MER mission must have records of names used, to avoid duplication. Can we assume the records of names will one day be made available via the Notebook? I would point out that a much better record of feature names must have existed during Phoenix, but the current Phoenix Notebook system of name access is incomplete and cumbersome to say the least. Since names are important for tying observations to places (where is that RAT hole anyway?) an easy-to-use, efficient source of names is very desirable. Maybe MSL can plan for this from the beginning.

Thanks! - Phil Stooke