PIA's and Panorama's

[option61c]

Good Evening all,

I've been fascinated by Mars and the growing collection of photo evidence for a while now since RobotCopola's excellent photo analysis appeared on YouTube (Does anyone know what happened to him?). I know that the panoramic files are composed of Panacam images stitched together. Is that the same for PIA's as well? Also, other than the ponderous method of looking at tons of pictures and hoping to get lucky, is there a more direct method for figuring out which pictures go into which composite? If any one can help me with this I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.

David

[Marsrocks]

I followed robotcoppola on youtube, and I thought he was going to join the board about 4 years ago:

marsanomalies.proboards.com/thread/85/member-videos

However, I have not heard from him in a long while, and it appears his youtube channel is not there.

I'm not sure what "PIA" stands for - but they are often NASA pictures of the day - or pictures prepared especially for the public at large - press release images. So, they are not always even panoramic images.

However, a large number of the PIA images we see from Mars are panoramic images - and they are more often than not stitched together from many frames to make a composite image.

When you do a google search to find the original PIA webpage - it often contains a text description of which sol or sols images were used to put together the composite stitched panoramic image. So, once you know which sol numbers are contained within the panoramic image - you pretty much are left pulling all of the pancam images from that sol or those sols.

If you are searching for something in particular from Spirit or Opportunity- you may want to go to Holger Isenberg's site and search through the color sols he has prepared to get a better location of your particular object - then use those numbers to locate the raw shots in the PDS.

Holger Isenberg:
Spirit:
areo.info/mer/spirit/
Opportunity:
areo.info/mer/opportunity/

If it is a Curiosity pan composite - you can just pull down the raw Curiosity images here (going, of course, to the correct sol):

mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=3#/?slide=356

[Marsrocks]

According to some comments under this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv11Z85LiVI

Robotcoppola is now LunaCognita on youtube:

www.youtube.com/user/LunaCognita