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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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Assembled from 10 overlapping Bayer reconstructed L-MastCam subframe images. For those who missed the earlier mission update, the L-MastCam has a stuck filter wheel, so about half of the full frame images are now obscured by the jammed filter wheel. Luckily the team can command sub-frame images, but they need more images to build the mosaics. You'll also note that the images have slightly darker borders which MS-ICE sometimes fails to blend during assembly, but it's great we can still get some great images from the camera. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some details on the issue: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26043-curiosity-mastcam-filter-wheel

(note the swiss army knife for size comparison ;-))

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tbh I was afraid to ask and googled instead, found it interesting enough to share ;-)

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Glad you did :)