Views of MSL Hardware 12 Days after Landing
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Views of MSL Hardware 12 Days after Landing
ESP_028401_1755  Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites
This is the third HiRISE image of MSL on the ground, a less oblique image with slightly higher resolution than the previous images.

The subimage shows a 4x reduced-scale overview, keyed to full-scale cutouts.

The new dark spots (left side) created streaks radial to the descent stage impact site, and may be from far-flung rocks or objects associated with the impact. There are 7 bright spots associated with the descent stage crash site as well that may be pieces of hardware.

There are also bright pieces scattered around the backshell, mostly downrange, and interesting detail in the parachute.

You can see the shadow of the MSL mast extending southeast (downsun) from the Curiosity rover.

This image was acquired looking more directly down (9 degree roll angle) than the prior images so the pixel scale is improved to approximately 0.27 m/pixel. Each cutout is individually stretched to best show the information without saturation. A special noise cleaning method was applied to the images by Paul Geissler of USGS.

Note: In addition to the anaglyphs linked below, this observation has other anaglyph products:
Map projected reduced resolution PNG
Full resolution JP2 downloadd



Written by: Alfred McEwen  (31 August 2012)

 
Acquisition date
17 August 2012

Local Mars time
15:30

Latitude (centered)
-4.598°

Longitude (East)
137.448°

Spacecraft altitude
269.1 km (167.3 miles)

Original image scale range
27.3 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~82 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
9.6°

Phase angle
63.4°

Solar incidence angle
54°, with the Sun about 36° above the horizon

Solar longitude
156.6°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  21.0°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (575MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (376MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (293MB)
non-map           (286MB)

IRB color
map projected  (111MB)
non-map           (390MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (178MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (170MB)

RGB color
non map           (371MB)
ANAGLYPHS
Map-projected, reduced-resolution
Full resolution JP2 download
Anaglyph details page

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

USAGE POLICY
All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

POSTSCRIPT
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.